Pandora

So for my first site that I am taking a look at I chose Pandora. Pandora is a streaming music program that you can access with little difficulty. Plenty of place have this sort of streaming radio concept, such as Yahoo internet radio. However, Pandora stands above all others because of the concept that lies behind the site. You can create your own station. This doesn't sound so great, but this makes my life. You don't have to make a whole list of artists or songs for your station rather pandora does it for you. Just put an artist or song you like, and the program will tailor a station based around music similar to the artist/song you identified. It does so by looking at a list of criteria and matching up the criteria your song meets with other songs that meet the same criteria. You can further customize your station by rating wheter or not you like the current song. This rating does several things as explained by the helpful faq that can be found on the website:

* The very next set of songs for this station will be directly generated using the song which received the thumbs-up vote.

* Future sets of songs are more likely to have similar musical traits. Multiple "Thumbs Up" votes on this station for other similar songs will have a cumulative effect.

* All songs that have received a thumbs-up vote on this station will each become members of a new invisible starting point for this station.

Needless to say, I love this. I'm finding artists and songs I didn't even know exsited and it turns out I like them. The only downside is that you can't replay songs, nor can you rewind/fast forward within a song. But, overall its worth it.