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Introducing music on web, pandora and last.fm gives you what you want to listen.

Pandora´s project has as goal to create a kind of musical dna, analysing personal tastes and musical attributes. You can create your own radio station entering your favorite artist or song, and it would give you new related music. You can also decide if you do like or don´t music playing. Is quite easy to use it, but could be limitated.

Last.fm is a web 2.0 product going further, it allows people create comunnities, recommendations, know about events and charts. It joins music, friends network and world wide information. Despite those benefits you must like surfing through it´s pages, otherwise you´d rather using pandora. Here you are new web music options:

www.pandora.com
www.last.fm

Stand up for your Choice!

Every single carrer has a hard road to walk, even if you want to be a baker or an aerospace engineer, but sometimes we don´t like those aspects that makes a good professional possible. Throughout that question it is remaining the idea of becoming succesful, but as soon and easy as it could be. As a nowadays famous advert says : “ good things take time”, being a good professional -in any subject you´d like- will take tears blood and much sweat. As a designer you´ve got the chance to become into a perceiver of cultures and lifestyles, it means you must be always aware of events and be update, giving an objective interpretation based on analysis and studying of human behavior understanding. Anyway, studying, creating, or training would give you the foundation to put down solid statments in order to develop your professional and personal success.

So... you want to be a web designer?

Welcome to web design, you have chosen a nice way to improve your comunication skills but i must warn you, could be quite addicitve.

Firstable is just fair questioning about how is our relationship with the web. Am i a consumer, a creator or an analyst? Think about your favorite web site, what do you like about it? It´s so common to not realize those details that make it special or useful. So this is my very first advice: keep your eyes wide open, that´s the difference a designer made.

Here you are the first text, enjoy and comment it!

http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/design/stand-up-for-your-rights