woolcovered

Here's a nifty little plug-in: Soundamus. You enter your last.fm ID, and an .RSS feed is created of upcoming releases for the groups you listen to. (Hat Tip: Ryan.)

I've been using it for a couple of days now, and it seems to ping all of the Amazon sites to provide the list of things that may be of interest. The only drawback to this approach is that foreign-edition releases for years-old albums get pinged and sent your way. If there was a way to maybe isolate for just Amazon.com/.ca (and not .de, .fr, etc.) it may be more effective for me. A neat way to use .RSS technology for marketing purposes.

It'd be great if this marriage of last.fm and amazon could extend to music ratings. It's always surprised me that last.fm doesn't give a user the option to enter a database of what they like, and how much. I'd think it would be pretty valuable data to them, depending on how widely users bother to rate things.