I have a new favorite place on the web.

When I installed Linux a while back, I noticed my music software - Amarok - had the option to have information about your listening habits sent to Last.fm That was several months ago. Yesterday, I finally got around to checking out Last.fm Damn I’m glad I did.

All I can say is, “Holy Crap!” The best way to explain it is to just see it. This is my page. I’ve only been using Last.fm for 24 hours and that is how much information it has collected. You can see what I am listening to at this moment! If you look a little further down you can see that I have been heavily playing the new Fall Out Boy album and that I prefer Alternative and Rock. I listen many genres, just not in the last 24 hrs.

You can change all sorts of settings including the types of recommendations you get ranging from popular to obscure bands. It finds people with similar music tastes and you can import your contact list from G-mail, AOL, MSN, Yahoo! or any other e-mail with a contact list to find friends immediately. I knew about 10 people already using the service based on my G-mail contact import. From what I undersand, Last.fm is becoming quite popular but to give you an example of the difference between this and other social networks in terms of popularity…when I imported my G-mail contacts into MySpace a while back, there were 100+ of my “friends” with an account compared to 10 on Last.fm

One of my favorite features is the “Event” tab. I enter a city and it recommends music events in my area based on my taste. Freakin’ cool.

So this isn’t much of a review. I mostly wanted to spread the word about Last.fm. Give it a try. If you already use it, let me know via comments and tell me what you think.

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