It seems like the world wide web has been socially interactive since we can remember ever using the internet on a daily basis. It started with groups like AOL, communication software like ICQ, online gaming platforms like Battle.net, and web sites like CNET. Seven years ago Yahoo decided to make a legal attempt at bringing commercial music to the web in the form of an online web radio station. Unfortunately this service was filled with advertisements, bad sound quality, bad portability (Uses and Requires closed-source Microsoft technologies).
A lot of the web has been talking about last.fm and I decided to give it a try just recently, and in response I would like to give it two thumbs up!
It's simple, it's great, it's cross platform, it's free, and it does what it's suppose to do, play music!
In my opinion, what makes last.fm really stand out is that it has a very noncommercial feel to it, ads are at the bottom of the web-site, the last.fm client which can be compiled for pretty much any platform Win/Linux/Mac has no advertisements on it.
The standalone client really deserves recognition, it is open-source so that means anyone can look at the code and modify it to their pleasing. You can even turn it into a plug in for your favorite media player. Last.fm is definitely a great tool for all of us to use and I am very thankful.
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