Music heaven

This week I have had a look at 3 Web 2.0 Awards winners - the first 3 in the music category. The first "Last" is a pretty, flashy site with lots of photos and offering lots of music videos to sample (through YouTube). It offers a search engine to match you up with new music according to what you already like. I typed in The Dixie Chicks and it came up with a list of other female country artists - many of whom I already knew the music of, but others who were new to me. It was good to have some new ones to try although it was a pretty blunt instrument in terms of matching tastes - as I guess it could only be.

Next I tried Pandora, the second place getter, but it said it was unavailable to the world outside the US.

Thirdly I tried Mog (whose subtitle is "because the web mostly sucks"). This is interesting informative and thoughtful and it would make a nice complement to Last. I think I will definitely use these sites again. I think they could be used by libraries to locate other suitable titles to purchase if a particular genre is popular in a particular library. In our library it could be useful in finding more music suitable for playing in our library - soft but not too boring.