I remember working for BBC Radio and Music and finding Groove radio, it played soul and disco on a loop and it was fantastic in its simplicity. Cheery music on tap, over the internet. It was subsequently bought by Virgin and no longer exists (which leads me to believe maybe not everyone felt like I did!)

A friend just sent me a link to Musicovery.com. My first impression (though it is clearly much cleverer) is that it is much the same. It makes listening to music over the internet, music radio, very simple and very fun.

You can choose music by mood on a easy to use mood dial while at the same time using a slider to select the era of music you want. What happens next is a psychedelic topic map style presentation of all the streaming music available for you to listen to right then and there. Brilliant, and perfect if you forgot your iPod or don't have an iTunes account at work.

I really like it, clearly.

I recived a lovely email off the back on my post below from Holiday-Lettings

Perhaps I was a little harsh! They are now helping me with my search :-)

I am innocently looking online for a holiday villa in a sunny, beachy part of Europe. Can I find a good travel website that will find me a villa/apartment at the right price and in the right area? Can I buggery - and it is starting to irritate me, really irritate me.

If, of course, I was looking for flights, it would easy. There's loads of good sites for flights like the marvellous kayak   But, I'm not. I'm looking for villas. I am realising this is not the same thing. Admittedly there are plenty of nice looking sites out there that come highly recommended (I'm thinking Owner-Direct and Holiday-Lettings type websites) where you get the distinct advantage of dealing direct with the owners. But I am finding searching on them like pulling individual hairs from my scalp.

It seems my criteria makes me the most un-appealing of customer to the travel industry. I seem continually to end up at the same, inevitable conclusion - a totally and ridiculously unhelpful availability search which I am finding always ends like this (red means it is booked on the dates I want !!!) :

So, in the unusual and unexpected event that you read this post, and you work on the digital side of a travel website, please sort out a "useful" search tool for people like me who want to know what they can get for the money and dates in somewhere beachy and sunny. It's not much to ask is it?

Loving Wordle and FavThumbs for creating word clouds of your social bookmarks (in this case del.cio.us.)

 

 

Two new and probably really significant social media websites.

Lively.com is Google's SecondLife type site...

 

Plurk is like Twitter...