Pandora on the Desktop

The Pandora blog announced the beta of Pandora Desktop today. It runs on Adobe AIR and offers a couple new features that you don’t get from the web version.

The biggest new feature is the ability to minimize it to the tray. Still get your music rolling but no “desktop clutter.”

Another nice feature is the

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Grooving with the Sharks

-or- How I got a Grooveshark account

I caught a blurb about Grooveshark Lite this morning and decided to give it a look (see, Twitter can provide value). While I know very little about Grooveshark itself, I have to say that the Lite version is very cool!

Grooveshark Lite

Got a song or group stuck in your

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Holiday Tunes

Being of “a certain age”, I have very fond memories of the musical style from the “A Charlie Brown Christmas” cartoon that I grew up with (sponsored by Dolly Madison!).

Earlier today I received a comment nudging me towards Pandora Stations. A very cool site capitalizing on the ability to share “stations” created with Pandora.

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Social Stuff: Pandora, Meebo, Del.icio.us and BlinkList

Here’s a collection of recent updates from several “social” web applications that I follow.

Pandora, my favorite streaming music site, announced some new social features a couple days ago. All sorts of fun stuff added to enable listeners to find other, similar listeners or new music.

You can search profiles, search based on “channels”, or

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Pandora Related Tidbits

I’ve mentioned the music service Pandora a few times in the past — and can say I still use them quite frequently. I’m also still a Last.fm user and a huge fan of the mashup PandoraFM which combines the two services. [other mentions for Last.fm and PandoraFM]

I keep forgetting to mention how far

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