iPhone meme

For music lovers, this has to be the iPhone’s first killer app. You give Pandora Radio an artist you like, and it dishes up a personal radio station, based on a particularly sophisticated analysis of the music.

I tried to throw it a curveball by entering Dengue Fever, my favorite Cambodian Psychadelic Surf-Pop band, thinking, OK Pandora, what are you going to do with that? Pandora came through, not only identifying Dengue Fever, but serving up The Concretes, The Dials, and others - a bunch of bands I hadn’t heard before, but liked quite a bit.

Music you like, but haven’t heard before? It doesn’t get much better than that.