Been a while since I've written eh? Thought I'd drop in and share something tech related. Maybe I'll start doing my tech Thursday posts again... yeah, maybe...

Do you like music? If you answered no then you might be a communist and you can skip this post. For the rest of you, I recommend that you check out last.fm. It has many cool features for just about anyone.

It's huge

They have a huge amount of music. Seriously, if you can think of a musician or band that isn't on there, then the band you are thinking of is probably a band you were in in high school.

It's connected

Not only do they have all of this music, they have it all connected intelligently. If you look at any band, they will have a list of other bands that you are likely to enjoy if you enjoy that band. I've been impressed for the most part with their recommendations.

It's easy

Just about every popular music player either has a plugin for last.fm or has it already built in. Once you log in to it, you don't have to do anything. It just starts uploading a history of everything you've listened to. I started using last.fm about three years ago. I didn't really log in for a year or so afterwards but now I find it very valuable. It automatically gives you recommendations for bands you might like. It even will give you a list of free downloads from band it thinks you will like. You can check out my page here:

http://www.last.fm/user/sporkss

It's social

If you have friends on there (and if you're reading this you have at least one), then you can see everything they're listening to. It will even stream a 'radio station' of music that your friends listen to.

There are loads of other little features that you might love as well. I suggest you check it out for yourslef. If you do, don't forget to drop me a note :)