CBS Acquires Last.fm for $280 Million?
Posted: May 30, 2007
Totally amazed that, if the rumours are true, it’s CBS that managed to snag Last.fm but good on the guys over in London for finally getting the payback they deserve for creating one of my favourite pieces of the internet.
Congrats guys!
Hat-tip: Mashable
Links: Scrobbler: Last.fm For Ruby
Posted: May 29, 2007
Bit late to the party with this one, given the last few weeks involved a trip to California, my wedding and the post-ceremony mayhem that goes along with that.
John Nunemaker has released his wonderful scrobbler gem for accessing data from Last.fm – Scrobbler: Last.fm for Ruby.
Expect to see it incorporated here sometime shortly.
Nice work, sir!
Quick Mint tip: problems after moving your Mint installation
Posted: May 02, 2007
Here’s something I just discovered when moving my Mint installation from its old subdirectory location at http://partiallyblind.com/mint/ to its own subdomain of http://mint.partiallyblind.com.
After copying across all the relevant files, Mint stubbornly refused to acknowledge its new location; regardless of how many times I changed the Mint location field in the preferences or emptied Safari’s cache, it would default back to the new subdomain location but append /mint/ to the end of the url, which naturally wouldn’t work.
The answer was as simple as Mint is clever – Appending ?moved to the end of url forces Mint to reload its configuration after you’ve moved it to another location on your server.
You can see this and the rest of the useful Mint query commands over at haveamint.com.
