MySource Embeds MySpace Music Player on Facebook
Here's a ironic twist on a long running story. MySpace has been at times passive and aggressive on the embedding of applications and widgets on its profiles. Of particular interest are the music players so important to the monetization of online music. Recall when MySpace reminded Tila Tequila about the ToS when she supported Hoooka on her profile.  Hoooka competes with the officially sanctioned SnoCap player store.
Calen Michael Fretts' (of Virginia Tech) "underground" application MySource allows a FaceBook user to embed the MySpace player of any band. Just install the MySource application and submit the MySpace url stub of the band. Voila!
Thank you for reading this post. You can now Read Comments (4) or Leave A Trackback.
Post Info
This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 and is filed under facebook, music.You can follow any responses to this entry through the Comments Feed. You can Leave A Comment, or A Trackback.
Previous Post: Facebook Launches Video Messaging »
Next Post: Googler Writes Facebook Sneaky Crush App? »
- How to Get MagicJack and Lifecam Cinema Working on Windows 7 64-bit
- Fix for Error Installing do_mysql Datamapper Adapter on Ubuntu
- Amazon Packages and Ships OEM Hard Drives Loose in Box with Two Air Pillows and Bubble Wrap ONLY
- Devious New Targeted Financial Phishing Scam Strikes Your Cellphone
- Errata for Programming Collective Intelligence
- Yelp Battles Supporters of the Meier Family
- Pictures of Lori Drew
- Picture of Curt Drew
- Brandon Antron Rolle Goes on Trial Today
- Fixing Spurious Rails Routing Error
June 6th, 2007 14:48
this sounds like the ultimate evil. one of the few reasons I use facebook is that it doesn’t have embedded music players like myspace.
June 6th, 2007 15:21
Matt, you have to click MySource application to activate the music player. Like it or not, the Facebook profile will surely evolve into being more colorful and cacaphonous. But Facebook profiles have a social depth that MySpace profiles lack, and it’s not clear that music will turn out to be a centerpiece. As we are seeing, the F8 open ecosystem promises a wide array of customization options, most of those applications are playful and socially useful, not noisy. I think Facebook management — and independent developers like Frett — are careful to keep the profiles quiet, eg with the players in a click to play default mode.
January 9th, 2009 17:01
So far Facebook sux. The few applications it has is slow and not so easy to operate. Why don’t they just call it what it is, the reunion site so you can look at photos of familys of your former classmates that you don’t ever talk to. Petty boring. Does not really allow you to express exactly the type of person you have become over the years. The music player sux also. Difficult to load and does not play automatically. Myspace has you beat by a mile at this point.
July 8th, 2009 08:25
THE APP DOES NOT WORK - FACEBOOK SAYS THERE IS A ERROR - IS THERE ANY OTHER FACEBOOK APP THAT WILL ALLOW YOU TO EMBED OR POST YOUR MYSPACE MUSIC PLAYER?