Palindrome wrote:

Ever since we started the Music Genome Project, our friends would ask:

Can you help me discover more music that I'll like?

Those questions often evolved into great conversations. Each friend told us their favorite artists and songs, explored the music we suggested, gave us feedback, and we in turn made new suggestions. Everybody started joking that we were now their personal DJs.

We created Pandora so that we can have that same kind of conversation with you.

Pandora is a pretty neat tool. I've found it lacking in a few areas (Neither The Ventures nor The Shadows, both 60's surf rock groups, populated at all). Personally I'm a fan of Last FM, which uses a plugin to publish your listening, compares it to other users to create 'neighbors' who share your musical taste and let you randomly stream your neighbors selections, so it branches out pretty quickly.

RE: Pandora