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After yesterday’s Facebook F8 Developer’s Conference announcements, I noticed myself doing something very interesting. After hearing about the new Facebook integration on Pandora, I found myself racing to Pandora to make sure I had an updated station list of my current favorite bands. I haven’t been a heavy user of Pandora in the past few months, but you can bet I went there straight away to start using it again when I found out my friends were going to be able to see my public artist list. Now, I’ll be using the tool more to see what my Facebook friends are listening to.
I love sharing music with others to discover new tracks or artists, and love giving people suggestions on new bands to check out. At the root, it’s what Pandora has set out to do from the beginning. It is no longer just “Discover New Artists and Songs (that our robot is plugging into your playlist)”. It’s now “Discover New Artists and Songs (that your friends are already listening to and are now sharing with you socially…. and all that other robot stuff too). Facebook has given Pandora a well-deserved boost in usage by me, and I can almost guarantee that I’m not alone.
Pandora is an easy example of the new Facebook Open Graph changes. Sure, there will be privacy concerns – many of them not valid in my mind. But that’s a topic for an entirely different post, so don’t snap at me for that comment just yet! It’s going to be interesting to see the amount of interaction on major retail sites like the early “Like Adopter” Levi’s. Will retail see the same boost? From what I’m seeing, it’s quite clear that the internet, as we know it, has officially changed. We don’t get to say that too often.
We’ll be breaking out some of the highlights of the changes in posts over the next few days and weeks. What are your initial thoughts? Will you find yourself interacting with these participating sites more often now? Do you see your friends having a significant impact on your internet activity and habits? We’d love to know, so please share with us…
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Tags: F8, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Pandora
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You know what? I went directly to Pandora, too. I wonder how many others did as well. Looking forward to upcoming posts from you about the Facebook changes!
Interesting! I am one of those band junkies so keep this info coming.
So often when a company announces updates to its website, it affects just that site’s users. FB’s changes are going to affect many, many other sites. It will be interesting to watch the ripple effect. I just “liked” a Slate article to check out the new system and it’s in my news feed and in my group of pages I was a fan of (and now “like”). Now I want more tools to categorize that list…get going, FB developers!
Thanks for the comments… to your point, Kate, I think this is only the beginning in terms of functionality. They’ve positioned these changes with developers in mind (making things much easier for devs). We’re going to see brands/sites/individuals take this and race to create interesting ways to make their spaces more social, making our everyday web experience much more personal.