The following image shows what I have just been listening to, as determined by last.fm. Hopefully it’s not showing anything too embarrassing.
I already mentioned my foray into MySpace in search of new music to listen to. As a result of that I ended up setting myself up on last.fm. This is another social networking site oriented around the music you listen to. To get anything out of it, you will need to install their client software. This is a little app that checks what you are listening to in iTunes and uploads your playlist to the site. Based on this, it will provide statistics about your musical taste and let you know who your neighbours are each week, based on how similar their tastes are to your own. They also provide handy little things like generating images periodically that you can put on other sites, showing what you have just been listening to. You may not actually want to share such information, and from what I can gather, users do become rather careful about what they listen to, in order that they look as cool as possible. All those tunes that you are embarassed about liking get published out for all the world to see.