Tag: facebook

Likaholix is a startup set up by some ex-Google staff, and is the latest service to let people make and share their personal recommendations - books, films, TV shows and yes, music.

Facebook has announced some significant changes to its website, some of which have direct relevance for music marketing.

Slicethepie has taken a big step forwards via a deal with social network Bebo that will promote its artist-financing model to the latter's community.

Hats off to eMusic, which is one of the first established music services to integrate the Facebook Connect technology. What this means is that users can sign into eMusic using their Facebook logins, and then publish activity...

Nokia wants to poke Facebook. Apparently. Or, as the Wall Street Journal puts it (more soberly), the two companies are in negotiations about “a partnership that would embed parts of the social network into some Nokia...

Are labels and managers doing a good job of building communities around their artists on Facebook? Well, none make the ten most popular fan pages on the social network.In order, they are: Barack Obama, Coca-Cola, Homer J...

Lil Wayne has announced a release date for his new album, Rebirth, and there's plenty of digital promotion planned around it.The lead single is debuting on his MySpace profile today, but he's also signed a deal...

If you're Web 2.0 savvy and looking for a new job, you might want to check out this vacancy for a 2.0 Media Manager at Brandcasting Unlimited, responsible for Britney Spears' online identity and digital properties.That...

It's a troubling end of 2008 for music site Project Playlist, to say the least. MySpace banned its widget last week following pressure from the major labels, and now Facebook has followed suit.The latter is possibly...

It's been an interesting few days for music service Project Playlist, to say the least. Late last week, the company's widgets were removed from MySpace, apparently following pressure from several major labels. Or,...

The blogosphere has been buzzing this weekend following claims in the New York Post that Facebook is “plotting a possible push into the digital music business” in an effort to take on MySpace Music. That's...

A new survey from Synovate claims that 58% of adults worldwide don't know what online social networking is, while of those who do, 36% are actually losing interest in it.The survey quizzed more than 13,000 people in...