Last.fm Revolution
Somehow on Wednesday I stumbled across Last.fm and took a look around. I must admit I was a little intrigued by what it was and what it did for Web 2.0, brought on by James’ ‘Map of the Internet’ poster he has behind his desk. The poster shows an artist’s interpretation of how the internet would be arranged if websites and communities were countries and continents, and shows Last.fm as a section of land as big as deviantArt.
Once I had created an account, I downloaded the client and installed its plug-in into Winamp, then chose a play list and ignored what was going on in my system tray. An hour or two later I noticed it had automatically scrobbled my played tracks onto my profile and had begun to suggest other artists I might like, which turned out to be a gross overestimation of my taste in music, but I’m confident it will get better with more scrobbled songs.
The point of me telling you about this service is that I recommend you join up and get some scrobbled songs on your profile – eventually you’ll be able to work out the next big thing for you, by comparing other people with similar tastes. Give it a go!
In the meantime, have a look at my own profile, and here are some samples of the stuff it lets you do outside of the website:
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