If you’re one of the 800,000-plus users of Facebook, you’ve surely noticed the proliferation of music on the social network. Some people love the way it lets them check out what their friends are listening to, while others, overwhelmed, seek advice on how to make the news ticket disappear. Even then, listening activity also appears on…
In this exclusive interview published in conjunction with MTV, we asked Matt Kelly about his invention, CrowdJuke, initially created in a frantic 24-hour period at Music Hack Day San Francisco, about his creation, which just won “Best Music Hack” from the MTV O Music Awards. Kelly created CrowdJuke as a side project from his day job as Facebook partner-engineer, and says…
First, some perspective: Even after yesterday’s big Facebook F8 hullabaloo, people will still listen to and discover music without Facebook, as hard as that might be to believe right now, given all the attention paid to the social network’s shift into media sharing, which suddenly made Twitter look like the stripped-down communications protocol it has…
We have a bone to pick with one aspect of Facebook’s new music initiative, but can’t find anything wrong with the way it will let people join each other on streaming radio stations to chat about what they’re hearing. Here’s how this will work: We are friends on Facebook. I am listening to a streaming…
Facebook wants to be the “connective tissue” desperately needed by music fans and the music industry alike, so that, at long last, people would be able to share music with each other without friction — and without breaking the law. However, despite all the other neat stuff Facebook unveiled today, it mostly failed in that…
We’re busy monitoring Facebook F8 for all the music news we already knew was coming, but in the meantime, it’s worth noting that Turntable.fm’s slick redesign has gone live during Facebook F8 – just like co-founder Seth Goldstein said it would – with a number of advantages over the old look: It’s easier to see where your friends…
In what has to be the worst-kept digital music secret of the year, Facebook plans to announce deep integration with a variety of music services that will let people track their friends’ listening activity on Facebook, join them to listen live in some cases, and find their friends on music services outside of Facebook more…
As his partner, Turntable.fm CEO Billy Chasen flew to San Francisco for Facebook’s F8 conference, Turntable.fm co-founder Seth Goldstein demonstrated their creation at Manhattan’s Paley Center at an event hosted by SoundCtrl (which put together the FlashFwd Awards we covered earlier this year). We turned down a VIP seat in order to watch the event online, all…
We can’t stop writing about Facebook today, because after months of anticipation, tomorrow is the day when it will announce new sharing features for music and other media that could form a “connective tissue” between the various services used by music fans. Today, Facebook remade itself (again), much to the consternation of users (again), who…
What music service isn’t overhauling itself in advance of Facebook’s big F8 music-sharing announcement on Thursday? Pandora, the most popular streaming radio destination in the country, just rolled out a soup-to-nuts overhaul of the web version of its service, which now runs on HTML5 instead of Flash, among other changes. According to Pandora CTO Tom…
We’ve learned of another music twist for Facebook’s F8 announcement on Thursday: Myxer Social Radio, from the six-year-old MP3, wallpaper, and ringtone company Myxer. It plans to join the social, smartphone world with a real-time group listening streaming radio service that will let friends listen together via Facebook — not only that, but it will…
It might be longer in the tooth than any of the other “big five” music subscription services, but Rhapsody, with its 800,000 claimed subscribers, is still going strong. Now, it’s doing something it probably should have done a long time ago: integrating more closely with Facebook and Twitter, the way most other things do now,…
Music on Facebook is about to get a lot more interesting. MOG, the unlimited music service, has reinvented itself as a social game where the goal is to listen to, make playlists out of, and share music. If you do those things enough, you’ll never have to pay to use it, and the system will…
