Makes you wonder why Apple hasn’t caught this wave yet, especially because Pandora enables you to jump directly to the iTunes store if you want to buy a song that you have just heard on the radio channel.

The thing is however, that the Pandora music player is a typical example of the use of Rich Internet Technology. I guess it’s build with Macromedia’s Flash or Flex, which makes for a compelling, highly interactive user interface. That’s the good part. The bad part is that you are forced to master yet another user interface, exploring yet another collection of creatively designed menu’s, toolbars and interaction options. In this case, it even features some infamous Mystery Meat.

Guess earlier CTO Blog criticism on ‘Too Much Interface’ is more relevant than ever. Time proudly states that "many of this year's choices are shining examples of Web 2.0: next-generation sites offering dynamic new ways to inform and entertain". Fine with me. But my idea of entertainment is just not that every new, cool site forces you in a time-consuming, chaotic user interface adventure. Who knows, it may just be the generation gap. Perhaps we should ask the newest, hippest search engine