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Changing Tune

Not quite four years ago, John Maloney sent an email introducing me to Dan Kantor, writing “you both know a lot about music and should connect.”

A couple of weeks later, on the day Dan and I were scheduled to meet, I figured I should have seen what he was working on and installed the extension.fm plugin (it was Chrome plugin-only back in the day, kids).

After installing, I didn’t get it. I shrugged, did some other stuff on the web for a little while, and then looked back at extension.fm to try to figure it out. I looked at the library of music that Exfm had built for me in just a few minutes, and the lightbulb went on. I twittered:

Wow. @dankantor may have just given me a reason to shift over to Chrome.
— Whitney McNamara (@whitneymcn)
February 10, 2010

I’m disappointed that Exfm as we knew it will be no more, but Dan and crew did some fantastic work, and I hope and trust that they’re proud.

exfm:

When we started Exfm four years ago, we had one goal. To help people discover and listen to new music on the web. What started as a Chrome extension quickly grew to a website, iPhone app, Android app, blog widget and API. Along the way we had people from over 200 countries use our apps and more…