Discovering Web 2.0 tools

Well, I spent a few minutes looking at some of the winners of the "Web 2.0 Awards", and wanting to get a little more play than work out of this particular "thing", I looked in the Music section and spent a good deal of time on the website http://www.pandora.com/

For those that haven't heard of it, it's basically an online music service that is customized to the type of music/artists you're interested in. When you first go to the site, you'll immediately be asked for a favorite song or music artist and once you've entered that in, it'll create a "radio station" playing songs similar in style to the artist or song you've chosen. As each song is playing, you'll be given an opportunity to further customize what types of songs you'll be hearing on that station by giving a thumbs up or down to that song. Now, you can also start fresh, create a whole other "radio station", and go in a completely different musical direction if you wish. If you want to save the stations you've created and be able to access them again, you can click on the register link towards the top of the screen and create an account, which is free by the way.

It's really a tremendous website for anyone who enjoys being able to listen to good music for free while working on the computer.