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Last.fm is my favorite thing online. What is it? It’s much more than an online radio service. Add a mix of social networking to streaming music and ooh statistics, and you have last.fm in a nutshell. For every song, every album, every band, every genre, and every tag there is a dedicated statistic page all syncing with your library as you listen to your personalized radio.

The statistics is pretty awesome. Last.fm’s ‘audioscrobbler’ scrobbles–or records–songs you listen to and builds charts, kind of like top 40, only way better. For people like me who have had the service for years there are statistics going back to the first song you ever listened to. You can browse your listening habits and discover new artists that you might like all based on the tracks you and other people listen to.

Like a particular band? Put “Muse” into the music search box, and give them and their similar artists a listen! You can ‘love’ tracks, ban tracks, and tag tracks. On my profile I have several tags to create playlists. You can listen to “neighborhood radio” and find out what your peers listen to.

The coolest feature on last.fm is probably the Music Compatibility feature. When visiting somebody else’s profile, a small bar will display showing your compatibility with their music tastes. This makes making friends online so easy. Adding friends is a mutual thing as it is on Facebook, each person has to reciprocate the friend request.

If you want to add me, look me up: http://last.fm/user/doormayhew