A origem dos canais de streaming

«The search for a user-customized music "station" started in the early 1990s, when MIT's Media Lab created Ringo, a music recommendation engine that asked listeners to grade a few tunes and then offered them songs they might like. Now, CBS's Last.fm site has become the first of the new generation of music sources to offer free, on-demand, full-length spins of any tune you want to hear -- not just the 30-second snippets available on iTunes and most other music sites.»

fonte: Name That Tune-In: Who Will Emerge as The Future of Radio? Marc Fisher Washington Post Staff Writer March 23, 2008