Web 2.0 Awards

Oh me, Oh my!!! It was a bit overwhelming looking at the Web 2.0 Awards list. There were so many things that I wanted to try (and I was looking at the "short" list). I took a very quick peek at a few different things (such as Yelp!, Meebo, and ThinkFree) before settling on Pandora.

Pandora allows you to create your own music station. You can select different artists, songs, etc and then it chooses others that you might like to add to the station that you have created. You can add, delete, edit, rename, etc. your station. You can also give a thumbs up or down to the songs that it chooses. If you give it a thumbs down, it stops playing the song immediately. According to the site FAQ, if an artist receives two thumbs down from you, he or she is permanently removed from playing on your station. I really like this premise of this site. The only "problem" that I had was that the songs kept cutting out at times....guess bandwith was an issue. The site let me listen for a while before I had to register.