Last.fm relaunch site – with tags

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.

Technorati keyword searches now by language

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.

Technorati on Newsweek

Newsweek are now using Technorati to provide a list of links to blogs which cite their articles. On their front page are the most blogged of Newsweek’s articles, and then each feature itself, such as this one on podcast porn, links through to a page of excerpts from the blogosphere. It’s a nice little feedback loop, creating a two way street between mainstream media and the blogosphere. I hope we see more of this.