Friday, October 17, 2008

Facebook Music Coming?....




It looks like it (no, not because of the picture). Facebook has reportedly been in talks with several music services who are looking at a partnership with Facebook.

From the New York Post:

The surging social-networking giant is talking to a number of song-streaming services and music community sites, including Rhapsody.com, iMeem.com, iLike.com, and Lala.com, about an outsourcing deal that would more deeply integrate their music experience into Facebook, sources familiar with the situation said.

Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives also have been busy taking meetings with the major record companies about the strategy.


If Facebook can pull this off successfully, it will be a huge dig to MySpace. A major draw to MySpace is music. A major drawback is spam...and tons of it. Facebook doesn't have the problem of spam (it has some spam, but nowhere near MySpace volume).