Friday, October 12, 2007

# 7 Blog about technology - last.fm

LibraryThing might be the social reading revolution, but last.fm is the social music revolution.

Unlike LibraryThing where you need to manually add books to your library, Last.fm hooks directly into your PC's music player (eg. iTunes), so whenever you play a song your profile gets updated and stats are recorded.

Here is my profile: http://www.last.fm/user/Bradii/

You can also add widgets to your blog to share your recently played tracks etc with everyone. Look to the right and you will see mine. Last.fm makes it really easy to share new music with your friends (especially helpful if they are overseas).

Taken from last.fm:

Last.fm is the flagship product from the team that designed the Audioscrobbler music engine. More than ten million times a day, Last.fm users "scrobble" their tracks to our servers, helping to collectively build the world's largest social music platform.

Last.fm taps the wisdom of the crowds, leveraging each user's musical profile to make personalised recommendations, connect users who share similar tastes, provide custom radio streams, and much more.

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