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The folk behind the Music Genome Project are using their database to drive a new service at Pandora.com.

Type in the name of a band or a song, and Pandora (a little box in the middle of your browser) will generate a personalised Internet radio station that plays music related or similar to your request. It's quite fascinating to sit there and click the forward button to see what's next (and occasionally wonder just why that one was chosen...). And of course you get the option to rate or buy the music you've just heard.

An interesting experiment, which has the prospect of hours of fun...