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!
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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.