My Own Radio Station

Today I discovered a very cool website called Pandora that allows you to create your own Internet music station.

By entering in the name of a favorite song or by naming your favorite artist, Pandora plays a selection and then asks questions to further refine what it is that you like about the song. Then it plays other songs that correspond to those attributes. With each selection, you can provide guidance as to whether you like the song - and thus the process is further refined.

It's a better version of Amazon.com's suggestions "other people who purchased this also bought...".

If you have eclectic tastes and have a wide variety of favorite songs or artists - no problem. You can create up to 100 different music stations.

They offer a free service if you don't mind ads, and you can also subscribe for an ad free service. I play my radio stations (minimized) in the background so FREE works for me.

If I were a record company, I'd be licensing this application to expose listeners to my entire music catalog.