Open Web Awards: Music

Sometimes we have a hard time remembering how we used to find out about new music before the internet. It's so easy these days to find new music online. Some web services let you create a profile with all of your favorite bands and then browse other users' profiles to find people with similar tastes. Others let you enter a band name in order to listen to streaming music from artists with a similar style.

Back in the day, the closest we could come to today's music discovery nirvana was reading the liner notes of tape cassette covers in the hopes of finding musicians that had influenced some of our favorites. If we wanted to preview music without buying it, we had to go to the library to check it out (and pretend that we weren't just taking it home to copy on a dual cassette deck).

How has the social web changed the way you find and listen to music?


You are voting for your favorite Application or Widget in the Open Web Awards, a distributed contest to find the best sites on the web. The top three sites in this category will proceed to the final round starting December 17th, and there will be an awards ceremony at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco on January 10th, 2008.

Category: Music

Sponsors: Cohn & Wolfe PR & Mashable Web Poll by Vizu

Tags: Open Web Awards, OpenWebAwards