Mon 22 Oct 2007
The Seattle based online music service announced that they would be partnering up with Facebook and Billboard. The goal is to create another chart for Billboard that will display the top 25 songs that facebook users (with the iLike application) have added to their profile pages. They will also be setting up charts to show the top 25 songs that users are adding to their iPods and iTunes libraries. No word yet from myspace on the snub.
Facebook recently opened the door to 3rd party developers who can now be found on Google or Yahoo! now that the Application Directory and application “about” pages have been opened to non-users. This is good for the developers and of course facebook. Developers who create sweet applications have a greater potential to be discovered and this way facebook can get a band application up there and take away the common-man’s last reason to ever visit myspace.