Nateweb

This is the second web 2.0 company I’m talking about.  If you haven’t already, read the introduction post here, or about the other service, flickr, here.

I have music. I have iTunes and hate it, but I also have an ipod, so I have to use this horrible software. I admit that it is good for a mac, but I don’t have and hopefully will never have a mac. Anyways, I have been getting by just using iTunes to manage my music. Anyways, I just got distracted on a rant. The point is that I have music, yay! I like finding new music but I tend to find it through friends and the radio. There are a number of websites that look at your music and then try to play music they think you will like (pandora and last.fm are the biggest competitors so far). Anyways, I don’t care about this service. I tried it out, but it seemed to end up playing too much music that I hated.

Why do I list last.fm do I hear you asking? Well, Last.fm also can keep track of what you are listening. I really seem to get interested in information. iTunes is great and all with tracking how many times I’ve played a song, but I hunger for more. Last.fm (which even syncs with songs you play on your ipod) can keep track of everything you are listening to. It then can make lots of pretty graphs and give you lots of information. Just take a look at my page. Now if you ask me what music I like I don’t have to scramble for random artists, you can just look at what I have and have listened to.

The interesting part is that I can use this information in other ways. I’ll probably add a little widget to the side of the front page at some time that just displays the last 3 songs i’ve listened to or something. More useless information, but I find it kinda.. web 2.0esque.

If you decide to use last.fm, or just are curious about my habits, check me out there. Username: farnsw0rth (I recently made the farnsw0rth account after being frustrated that hypn0toad was taken. Then I later realized that i had made the hypn0toad account a long time ago. Oops. Since I had more information on farnw0rth I deleted the hypn0taod)