September 21st, 2011

Facebook Employee Reveals Killer Facebook Music Feature In Deleted Tweet

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Facebook Music is launching tomorrow. This, everyone knows. But not everyone knows exactly how it will work, since Facebook been tweaking things right up until launch. But tonight one Facebook employee accidentally revealed one killer feature of the service.

Ji Lee, the creative director that Facebook stole away from Google in April, sent out the following tweet earlier: → Read More

September 17th, 2011

SoundCloud, Deezer And Rhapsody Revealed As Facebook Music Launch Partners?

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I love Yvo Schaap, even though I’ve never met him in person.

Wanna know why? Because the man keeps on digging up interesting stuff by simply perusing code, and then alerting us.

Schaap found the embeddable +1 button and a a link to the Google Games logo before either of them was publicly released, and now he may have identified several companies that will be partnering with Facebook for the… → Read More

September 10th, 2011

Two Key Features Of Facebook Music: Scrobbling And Track Unification

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Yesterday, we outlined a bit of what we’ve heard about Facebook’s upcoming f8 conference. One big launch will be their official foray into music. Today, we’ve heard more about that launch.

One thing we’ve heard from a very good source is that a key aspect of the service will be “scrobbling”. The term, made popular by Last.fm, means that when you listen to a song, it gets sent to your profile… → Read More

August 12th, 2011

No Facebook Music Yet? No Problem! Meet The Wonderful +Music Chrome Extension

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Facebook is working with a number of partners to prepare for the launch of a music service – possibly called ‘Vibes’ – inside the astoundingly popular social networking site. While you wait, I advise you to check out the amazing +Music extension for Google Chrome (here’s a direct link to the extension). → Read More

February 29th, 2008

FaceBook music: Follow hot bands' hot music (then jump over a shark)

[photopress:fbm.jpg,full,right] Facebook added a music service yesterday. Musicians can upload their songs, users can play them using the Facebook Music Player and later buy them using the provided iTunes link. It’s almost like Zuckerberg & Co. saw what a cluttered useless mess MySpace turned into and said, “Yeah, let’s emulate that.” Call me cynical, crazy, uninformed… → Read More