London - Social music discovery service Last.fm, a unit of CBS (NYSE: CBS), on Thursday released a music application for the 122,000 communities on Ning, a collection of niche social networks. Users of the Ning platform will be able to add Last.fm's application, which displays favorite artists and allows site visitors to launch a radio station based on any of the user's chosen artists. The application was designed to take advantage of Google's (NASD: GOOG) new OpenSocial standard, which will allow such applications to run across a variety of social networks, blogs and websites.

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