The guys over at Last.fm have have finally merged the Last.fm music playlist sharing and internet radio site with their Audioscrobbler.com site, which served the plugin that you need to make Last.fm work (fyi: my page). I spoke to them about that before Christmas, but sadly didn’t get the chance to work with them. What’s really cool about the new redesign is that they’ve added tags to the mix, so you can forget about all that horrible music taxonomy stuff and just tag stuff however you like. Plus there seem to be a lot more in the way of charts now, for the statistically obsessed. Good work, guys.

Email is for old farts, apparently. How very apposite.

Tom Coates writes a great post asking why all the cool tech start-ups seem to be in America, and why there are so few of them here, despite the fact that the UK has some amazingly smart and inventive people. Comments on this post are a great insight, and I don’t just say that because I commented.

Technorati have now implemented language filtering for keyword searches, with their beta providing the opportunity to filter by Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese or Spanish. So, I can search for ‘pledgebank’ in all languages, or I can narrow it down to just French. Nice!

This is only a beta at the moment, but Dave Sifry tells me that they will roll out more languages in due course.