Last.fm

Last.fm is a music service that learns what you love. Every track you play will tell your Last.fm profile something about what you like. It can connect you to other people who like what you like - and recommend songs from their music collections and yours too.

As you use Last.fm you make it better for you and everyone else. When you recommend some music to a friend, or you tag it, or you write about it - even just listening to it - you shift the song's importance on the site. It'll be recommended to different people, because you've listened to it. It'll move up music charts and maybe more people will hear it because you thought it was good.

How it all started…

Back in the 20th Century, Felix Miller and Martin Stiksel were running an online record label whose mission was to get independent music out to the people who wanted to hear it. A few years later, university student Richard Jones started tracking what he and his friends were listening to on their computers with a project he called Audioscrobbler. Last.fm brought these ideas and desires together. Last.fm has always been about making music culture more democratic: everyone listening to music how they want to, when they want to. Without a middle man making your decisions for you.

In a way this site can be compare to pandora.com but they are also linking their music knowledge on twitter and seem to have a very different layout and way of operating their music. I cannot talk enough about utilizing social media in the music business and these guys seem to have that down in picking up on the twitter bug! Although we might not get it, it's such a great way to update fans, future employees, and all targets on the internet as a whole.