Last FM widget

Ok, so this post is really just an excuse for me to try out the last.fm playlist widget.

Pretty soon we hope to be working on some music sharing widget technology with our friends Carbon Logic, if you haven’t checked out their site yet it’s really worth a look, and it’s free!

There’s always something on the office jukebox at Kyan Towers so I thought I’d make a playlist like the ones that fill our internal airwaves.

It was really simple to put together and I think we’re going to see a lot of different sites promoting themselves in this way in the future, not just limited to the social networking ghettos either. The applications are obvious for last.fm and the ubiquitous YouTube clips but with more and more corporate and news services offering widgets and rss feeds it seems likely that the ‘patchwork page’ made up of elements served from different providers will become increasingly common across the web.

Having said that there’s a bit of a spectre hanging over services like last.fm with the recent ruling about royalty payments for music streamed over the Internet in the US that seems like it has sounded the death knell for Pandora, the Flash based personalised radio station.

Read the Guardian unlimited article here
and enjoy the music while it lasts!