Still socializing
April 3rd, 2005 by teemowHave a look at audioscrobbler. I always wanted to have statistics about the music I listen to. But I listen to music at work, home and on my notebook, so the problem is how can I merge all the information. Audioscrobbler is the solution. There are plugins for mostly every player software (iTunes, Rhythmbox, XMMS, Winamp, Windows Media Player and even Music Player Daemon) and these plugins automatically send information to your audioscrobbler profile. This is great, but because it is social software there are even more features. Audioscrobbler calculates which people are similar in musical taste to you and there are suggestions of artists and music you might like similar to the amazon feature “People who like this music also like …”. And there is a audioscrobbler radio station (Last.fm) where you can listen to playlists of other users similar to you or to your own stream with your personal favorite songs.
A plugin for wordpress is also available.
Currently last.fm is down and you can’t register at audioscrobbler cause of essential server maintenance.
I also found upcoming:
“Upcoming.org is a social event calendar, completely driven by people like you. Manage your events, share events with friends and family, and syndicate your calendar to your own site.”
I still didn’t know how to show upcoming concerts on my blog and this is exactly what I wanted to have.
All this social software really helps you with your personal productivity, let other people help you tagging and organizing your stuff. And you can see the results of using tags, if you have a look at technoratis tag search (Cologne) you will find current blog posts, flickr images, furl and delicious links and even google ads 
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April 9th, 2005 at 11:17 pm
Hey, I made Upcoming.org. The next thing on the to-do list for the site is an easy way to drop your event list onto your blog. Check back in a week.