Music recommendation engine / social network Last.fm has launched an official, feature-rich application for the Android platform that enables users to stream radio stations (including personalized streaming radio), consult up-to-date concert information and also offers the ability to track users’ listening habits based on their Last.fm profile. [MORE]

Source: TechCrunch

…a Madison, Wisconsin-based upstart called Networked Insights has issued a report claiming that on social networks and other interactive destinations, listeners prefer a different set of music than they do when listening to the radio or shopping for tunes to purchase. [MORE]

Source: Wired

Seattle based iLike just expanded their recent streaming music deal with Rhapsody to allow any website or web application to add streaming music to their sites. [MORE]

Source: TechCrunch

The buzz is mounting, at least for those who care about MySpace. Granted, that’s a sizable audience, but one could argue that iTunes’ audience is even larger, and entrenched to boot. So is Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace music venture, which could be launched this week, anything to buzz about? [MORE]

Source: Wired

I’m probably alone on this, but I have yet to understand the allure of Twitter. And taking a look at what some musicians have done with the microblogging tool, I’m not about to change my mind anytime soon. [MORE]

Source: Wired

MTV might’ve strayed away from music these days–My Super Sweet Sixteen, anyone?–but the entertainment mainstay’s latest project aims to both bring it back to its roots and propel it into the social Web. Ambitious, yes. [MORE]