Facebook integration

Pretty please with sugar on top?

asbjornu said:
I've been using Last.fm and Facebook for a while now and see similarities as well as differences in the two services that I would love to integrate more tightly.

I would, for example, love to find users of Facebook through my musical preferences registered on Last.fm. I would love finding users on Last.fm that went to the same school me.

I see so many possibilities here that it's difficult to mention them all, but I've talked with some friends of mine that are users of both Facebook and Last.fm and they've thought about this too and think it's a great idea!

The first step could be to allow importing different types of entries from Last.fm to Facebook and the other way around, and this integration could escalate to unimaginable hights if the developers on both sides wants to! Please consider this! :-)

First off, let me say that I do agree with you that it would be good if the two websites worked together. That being said, I don't think it will happen anytime soon, as neither side would see any huge benefit from the partnership, and partnerships like that would take lots of time and/or money.

But to offer some hope, I do know of a few independent programmers (myself included) that are attempting to use the Audioscrobbler API and the Facebook API to integrate the two services together into one website. Hopefully one of us will create something that allows people to use the two services together.

DFA1979 said:
no real benefit for either website
??? No one thinks being able to see what a FB friend is listening to at any time is useful? Come on! Then again, that would require work on FB's end.

DFA1979 said: and a lot of complications likely to arise in setting it up.
At the very least, L.fm and FB should be able to find users of the other service among a user's friends on one of the two. With some privacy controls, of course. I keep my L.fm profile anonymous for good reason.

LANjackal said:
DFA1979 said:
no real benefit for either website
??? No one thinks being able to see what a FB friend is listening to at any time is useful? Come on! Then again, that would require work on FB's end.


That's a benefit* for users, not for either site.


* And only if you use/care for facebook.

Please read my entire posts, those of you who are negative to this idea. Both Facebook and Last.fm has RSS or Atom feeds for most of the stuff that happens in a given user's profile. Integrating these feeds in the counterpart website is tops 1 hours work.

Both sides already have feed software, all they need is to use this feed software to consume the counterpart's feeds and present it on their own site. That's the first step and it would be a very cheap and short step to take compared to the gained benefits.

Those who don't see the benefits of integrating these two sites can't be using both sites, or aren't looking at this the right way. Both sites are built around the idea of getting "streams" (or "feeds") of "stuff" in given topics. On Facebook you get feeds about your friend's status updates, their photos, their posts, notes, etc. On Last.fm you get feeds of what your friends listen to, what you listen to, etc. If you don't see these similarities, then I don't know what might explain it, but to me they are so apparent that it's strange they aren't more integrated already. :-)

Another problem: You can think Last.Fm should start to work together with Facebook. Somebody else might think that that is utterly wrong, because MySpace is ignored. A third doesn't use either of those two, but is a big fan of Hyves, and feels that Last.Fm should forget about the previous two and start to work with that social network...
In the end, most people get disappointed because the integration with their prevered social network-site is not as they expected it... or the next update on either of the sites ruins all the goodies.
With the number of social networks out there, starting to work closely together with one is always to make the majority of people unhappy.
If anything, the team could improve the social part here, but I do prefer a lot of music improvements.

You seem to act like this is set in stone and going ahead.

hodayathink said:
When you say talked to facebook developers, do you mean talked to people that you know work at facebook, or posted to the "Facebook Developers" group on facebook? Because those are two entirely different things.


I wrote "I've alerted the Facebook developers about this ...", I did not write I had talked with them. In other words, I do not know any Facebook developers personally and thus can't give any guarantee to whether my suggestion went to /dev/null or will actually be handled in any way.

asbjornu said:
hodayathink said:
When you say talked to facebook developers, do you mean talked to people that you know work at facebook, or posted to the "Facebook Developers" group on facebook? Because those are two entirely different things.


I wrote "I've alerted the Facebook developers about this ...", I did not write I had talked with them. In other words, I do not know any Facebook developers personally and thus can't give any guarantee to whether my suggestion went to /dev/null or will actually be handled in any way.

As I said before, this is something that it is much more likely that it will be developed by someone outside of both organizations than by both organizations working together. If you really want to see this badly, you could learn programming and PHP and just write it yourself. Otherwise, just be on the lookout.

Yay! Flaneur and the whole Last.fm crew: I love you! :-D

I love this new thing. Thank you :-)

Keep on the good work!

I think this would be a cool thing to have :D There are over 2000 members in the facebook last.fm group...it'd be a nice addition to facebook.

I'm glad Last.fm is taking this into consideration :)