TechCrunch has an overview of some of the new entrants into the social music scene.

If you scroll through the comments on this post,you’ll see a bunch more sites and applications that people have suggested that TechCrunch forgot to mention.

And yes, I have a site to add to the list.

While it’s certainly not a ‘social music’ site per se, liveplasma has done a great job of creating functionality that associates artists, songs and albums to each other. They’ve also done the same thing with directors and films.

And by the way, liveplasma also powers CNET News’ Big Picture, which associates news stories instead of music and movies.

And if there’s any doubt about how useful (and fun!) liveplasma is to use, they did make it into Read/WriteWeb’s list of the top 100 alternative search engines (and it’s still better than MusicMap).

So why not take this great tool and apply it to human relationship? Wouldn’t it be great to see a visual representation of who you’re connected to on LinkedIn?

Visually modeling a social networking site that links professionals would add a whole other dimension to understanding the relationships between you and others, especially if different relationships (how long you worked together or geographic proximity, for instance) were taken into consideration.

OK, someone go make this happen.