Facebook Connect. I remember hearing about this, and in fact, I installed in on TheMusicBlogs.com.au just to trial it over the first week of launch. Do not ignore this, it may be very big. Look forward to hearing your thoughts on what you think is a good implementation so far.
Why?
Trust: people trust Facebook. It’s something [...]
Just announced: Vodafone and Last.fm today announced a partnerships that will see Vodafone customers to integrate with the social networking music site. This is a great.
So where do you get it?
The Last.fm application is first available to download from Last.fm at www.last.fm/vodafonescrobbler, to selected Nokia handsets including the N95, N96, N78 and 6210 (other handsets [...]
Iggy Pintado has put together a great article on The 4 Ps of Online Networking. Like all who know the space deeply, Pintado has, of course, started with purpose.
Interesting report from Gartner. I’ve summarised below — but do you agree? I’ve dropped in my thoughts along the way. Would love to hear yours.
1991: They Call It “The Internet” – remember this?
Highlights the sense of community and fellowship – “tapped a world wanting to connect” for individuals to “indulge deep into abiding passions”. Just like social networking, online communities and of course, MMORPGs.
Seems after the widespread negative response to Australia’s first telco jumping on Twitter, BigPond is learning (even if it’s the hard way).
Making social media and music work.
A few weeks ago Mozilla announced the best add-ons for Firefox 3 – and one of them again identifies with the fact that we cannot simply create services. We need to make them as accessible as possible.
Last.fm already have an iPhone app, and now they have a great Firefox add-on called Fire.fm. [...]
One of my biggest fears is now very, very true:
Finally, it appears something is being done about LinkedIn and its appalling group system. Previously, you could create groups. And that’s about it. To get people in is completely manual, and they need to be approved manually. Anyone who has dealt with them will understand.
