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This Is My Jam considering flying the nest

By | Published on Tuesday 15 January 2013

This Is My Jam

This Is My Jam, a website that allows users to listen to a playlist of single track recommendations from other users they follow, is considering launching independently after signing up 100,000 users in its first year. The site is currently part of music data firm The Echo Nest’s network of apps, having been set up by two of its employees, former Last.fm-ers Matt Ogle and Hannah Donovan, in late 2011.

“Up until this point we’ve been incubated by The Echo Nest, but now we’re looking at options for spinning out in our own right”, Ogle told GigaOM. Explaining the idea behind the site, he added: “I couldn’t quite believe that in 2011 that social song sharing wasn’t just a solved problem. One thing that we talked about at Last.fm a lot – you know that amazing moment in real life when someone grabs you and say ‘you have to hear this song, check it out’ and they put the headphones in your ears or put a record on. Anyone who cares about music even a little bit has had that moment”.



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