It’s Revolution time. Period. And we don’t just say that because it was December 1st yesterday or because Bucharest has more Christmas lights than it’s ever had. We say it because collaborative filtering has finally mastered a territory that is sure to take the world by storm: music on the internet by joining
Last.fm and Audioscrobbler.
Just go to
www.last.fm, sign up painlessly, and prepare to be blown away. In Last.fm’s own words, when you sign up “you get your own online music profile that you can fill up with the music you like. This information is used to create a personal radio station and to find users who are similar to you. Last.fm can even play you new artists and songs you might like, unreleased versions and remixes. It's addictive, it's growing, it's free, it's music.”
So you can list anyone from
Madonna to Eminem, to Suie Paparude, b-Tribe, Morcheeba, Frank Sinatra, Keane and U2, and have all your music play NONSTOP on your personalized radio. The community on the site will then cluster up and you will easily find others who have similar musical tastes as you. People usually recommend artists to their “neighbours and friends”, so it’s not all “electronically engineered”, you see. Moreover, you can skip songs you don’t like on your radio, and the little brain behind Last.fm will record that as a “no-no” and enhance your profile! The more you listen, the more accurate the genius will get, thus only giving you what you want.
So until they apply the same principle to dating, enjoy the music; you’ll soon be too busy meeting all the loves of your life!
www.last.fm
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