The social network I want to introduce is last.fm - the social music revolution. It is a web based network like facebook but it also comes along with a software you have to download and install after you created a profile. The main purpose of the software is to "scrobble" your music, which means that it recognizes the songs you are listening to on your computer and sends this information to your last.fm profile. According to your personal track list, last.fm gives you recommendations and shows you "neighbors", that is people who share the same music taste with you.
The software also allows you to tag the songs you are listening to and the site contains a music search function that is based on those tags.My favorite function of the software, however, is the radio. You can just type in a tag and then the radio randomly plays music that is associated with the tag. You can also just listen to the personal radio which means that last.fm automatically plays songs that, according to your music profile, should be your taste. From my experience, this works really well.With regards to teaching, it might be a source for authentic material (i.e. target language music). The only problem is that you cannot download the music from last.fm.
4 comments:
You are right, Richard. This site could complement the book site that I visited. I also like the name, as if my music collection is the lat one on Earth. The best, too!
I think this site would be outstanding, especially since most if not all kids love music. I also like the variety it seems to present. But I can see how not being able to download from the site would be problematic.
This is a great resource for personal and academic use of music materials!
This sounds very cool. My husband is part of a trading/social networking music site: http://www.lala.com/
Are you familiar with it?
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