For a while now Last.fm has offered a “plug-in” for your website that will allow all of your visitors to view your profile directly from your homepage. Pandora has also released a similar function that will show your top stations and your favorites from your homepage.

Here are some examples of the Last.fm plug-ins.

My recently played songs:

My all time favorite artists:

My favorite tracks from this week:

Now I would love to show you the Pandora site plug-in. However, it seems as though only US residents are currently allowed to sign up for an account. Without an account I can not use the site plug-in. They are currently working on licensing the music for international use though, so maybe one day soon.

Realizing that AllMusic.com isn’t the only music database online I figured I would turn my Where to Find New Music post into a miniseries of posts about other sites that have similar functionality.

In this installment I’m going to show you a ridiculous web application called Pandora that was created by the Music Genome Project. What is Pandora then? Well think of it as your own personal radio station that only plays music that you like! Wouldn’t that be nice? Well Pandora is the closest anything has come to just that. The advantage to Pandora over a site like AllMusic.com is you get to go by the sound of the music, not just the name of a band or song.
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