For a project I’m working on, I’ve been looking at a lot of web service authentication/verification APIs lately. I thought folks might be interested in the results. Here are the methods available for a variety of web services/applications online, with links to their appropriate docs:
#last.fm
Last.fm Records
WP plugin to display the album artwork for recent tracks etc from Last.fm on your site. Also available as a sweetcron plugin/hack.
Idea: Amazon Music Exploration Application
Music is important to me. Not because I have any musical talent (at all), or because I work in the music industry (or ever have) or even have friends who are musicians (although I do have a couple). Music is important to me because I listen to it almost every waking hour, and need it to concentrate while I’m working.
According to iTunes, I have just under 6,000 “items” in my music library. That’s 16.5 days of music, playing 24/7. I like to find new music, and have pretty eclectic musical tastes (literally everything from The Corrs to korn appears in my library). I’d like a tool that helps me do a few things: (more…)
LastGraph
Very cool web app that graphs your listening habits on Last.fm as a waveform, containing streaks representing the relative frequency of artists in your listening history.
borkazoid’s Favorite Albums
Might not last long, but this is an awesome tool that pulls Amazon cover art for popular albums in my Last.fm account. It makes a cloud. Strip back to the filename URL for details.