Lastfm widgets and scroblling

I just added a lastfm.com widget to my sidebar. For those that don't know, lastfm is one of those sites where you and your friends can warehouse information about the music you listen to (in itunes, windows media player etc) and then mine the info.

One of the coolest features is that it profiles your taste in music based on your listening habits and then provides targeted recommendations. It also allows you to see what your friends are listening to provide a little itunes store inspirations - or bit torrent, if your shaped that way ;-)

BTW - if you don't fancy ruinning the lastfm software to gather information about the tracks you are playing, and you use itunes, there is a nice itunes Visualisation plugin called jscrob2 that does a nice, unintrusive job of gathering and sending playcount stats to lastfm. It's old, but faultess AFAIK. As I said, it works as a visualisation so you need to have it slected as your current visualation in itunes for it to work. It also works with the playcounts gathered by itunes for your ipod, but you need to not 'manually manage music' for itunes to gather playcounts from your ipod (something that took me a VERY VERY VERY long time to work out...)