Last.fm is so cool

Posted by stephen on Tuesday, 20th June, 2006 @ 17:32

I know I'm incredibly late (by years) jumping on this particular bandwagon, and I've got no excuses really other than laziness. Seriously, if you've never tried it out, check out last.fm. I'm not even going to explain why it's so cool, just know that you really ought to try it.

It makes sitting at my desk pretending to do some work a much nicer experience, having looped through my iTunes playlists hundreds of times in every conceivable combination. Check out what it's feeding me.

What's really surprised me is I'm currently listening to a station built on artists similar to Robert Miles. What I didn't expect was just how varied the results would be. It's playing me loads of music I really like and wouldn't have connected to Robert Miles at all. I guess that's the power of taxonomies, social networks and other buzzwordy Web 2.0 phenomena.