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Unannounced Facebook feature uncovered
- bhartzer 15y agoYou would think they would use another filename that wouldn't reveal Facebook Vibes.
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- ajhit406 15y agoStrange that this was posted on July 4th and is now just getting promoted / submitted.
- flardinois 15y agoI think he got the date wrong. He couldn't have found it until the video chat feature was live.
- masnick 15y agoI would speculate that this could be something like http://turntable.fm http://turntable.fm built into Facebook. If so, what a great way to keep users actively using Facebook: I can imagine someone spending a lot of time doing other things on the site while listening to music with their friends.
- hello_moto 15y agoFacebook wants to be the Portal for you :).
- conversionrater 15y agoFacebook implementing a similar thing as Turntable could indeed be a threat for them. Having such a huge user base gives them a lot of power in this type of situation, but the focus of a startup can often beat the focus of a larger company putting a team on a "feature".
- jsavimbi 15y agospeculation => Well, if tt.fm is raising money at a sudden $40M valuation, maybe they're positioning themselves for a quick exit via Facebook.
- mcantelon 15y agoThat kind of makes sense given you have to sign in via Facebook (which is why I intially didn't try tt.fm).
- jsavimbi 15y agoMy senses point to it. From my perspective it makes sense because you can't really point to it being a "serious" app that [serious] matured users would point to as a sense of belonging and we all know that Facebook users have no embarrassment at all when it comes to publicizing anything and everything they deem worthy in an effort to appear cool and belonging.
- janesvilleseo 15y agoThis is exactly what I was thinking as well. Vibe with your friends
- agscala 15y agoNow that Facebook actually has something to worry about slightly, it's kind of cool watching Facebook and Google both scramble to win over the users with these awesome A+ features one after another.
- jonnathanson 15y agoI am actually hoping that Google resists the temptation to fight a war of feature creep with Facebook. In fact, the sum total of my enjoyment of G+ has come from the cleanliness and austerity of its UX (well, maybe combined with the refreshing Circles concept -- but that's arguably a "cleanliness" measure of a different sort). Personally speaking, I'm totally comfortable with a social network as simply a credentialing and sharing layer running through my other experiences and touchpoints on the web. I don't need everything in one place. I am willing to admit that I might be an odd man out on this sentiment, however.
- thomaslangston 15y agoCount two odd men out. My ideal social network is a Rolodex on steroids. Just a global, searchable, tagged index that I can pull from for all my apps.
- farnsworth 15y agoYes, it would be great if we could separate the social infrastructure from the social apps. If Facebook ever goes under or out of style, we'll lose the graph of everything that's been put on it. But if we had an infrastructure of just a "Rolodex on steroids" that the Facebooks, Google+s, even Youtubes, etc. could build on, that would never be a problem. When you buy a new phone, you don't have to recompile a phonebook.
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- smackfu 15y agoOdd to think it will be called Facebook Vibes when the chat isn't called Facebook Peep. Probably just a codename, and it will end up being called Facebook Music.
- lojack 15y agoThis all seems so familiar... In a completely unrelated note, apparently Myspace sold last week for around $35 million.
- budgi3 15y agoHeard that Facebook are integrating Spotify. Maybe that will be 'Vibes'? Some more speculation here: http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/facebook-said-to-launch-music-dashboard-service-with-spotify-others/ http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/facebook-said-to-l...
- frankdenbow 15y agoThis seems to be the most likely conclusion.
- MrJagil 15y agoHow come?
- frankdenbow 15y agoIts a rumor that has been in the open for a while: http://blogs.forbes.com/parmyolson/2011/05/25/facebook-to-launch-music-service-with-spotify/ http://blogs.forbes.com/parmyolson/2011/05/25/facebook-to-la...
- dev1n 15y agoYeah, wasn't there an HN article on Spotify coming to the US recently?
- pitdesi 15y agoThere was earlier some speculation but yesterday it was confirmed by Spotify: http://www.spotify.com/uk/coming-to-the-us/ http://www.spotify.com/uk/coming-to-the-us/
- alexsherrick 15y agoSpotify is for sure being integrated into facebook. Facebook employees have had access for a while.
- untog 15y agoPersonally, I'm more excited about the fact that it requires an app ID. I'm very interested in users being able to record video from within Facebook and upload it. Anything to escape the awful Flash implementation of it...
- redrobot5050 15y agoYou can already record video with your webcam and upload it directly to Facebook, just like you can with YouTube.
- untog 15y agoI know, but as an app maker I can't interface with that.
- Qz 15y agoI still don't understand why I would want to pay for music through facebook.
- Kudos 15y agoPeople who type "facebook" into Google probably would.
- sebastianavina 15y agoI listen a lot of music through Grooveshark.... I guess FB could implement something similar... I can see a future, where the average user lives permanently on FB listening music, chatting, stalking and who knows what...
- The_Igor 15y agoBeautiful! Competition is good for the consumer.
- keysoftheraw1 15y agoNow that Facebook has some pressure from Google+, as broken down here http://yodabillclintonwillferrellmarkzuckerbergmichaeljordan.com/2011/07/01/first-impressions-of-google/ http://yodabillclintonwillferrellmarkzuckerbergmichaeljordan... I feel like Facebook will innovate much faster, and to a better degree. Better for all of us...
- shimsham 15y agothis will surely be their spotify-based app.
- eiji 15y agoI still woundn't mind some investigation on how the call/video feature works. The post mentions some java. We are not talking about applets here are we?
- redrobot5050 15y agoYes they are talking about Java applets. However, the technology has improved (a large portion of windows users have a java quick launcher set to run on start up) and if it is anything like Facebook's original "Photo Uploader" (back before they integrated with phones and iPhoto and other apps, they had a Java app where you could browse and add photos. It would also scale/reduce quality of high megapixel photos that otherwise couldn't be uploaded to Facebook -- this was down client side through the app and was still relatively quick.) it won't be so bad. TL;DR: Yes, it's a java applet. However, if its anything like how Facebook has done java applets in the browser, it will feel quick and lightweight on most systems.
- wnight 15y ago> a large portion of windows users have a java quick launcher set to run on start up So in other words it's still slow but because of vendor pressure it's been lumped into "The OS" to hide that cost from the user? More overhead is a tradeoff you make to use a VM. I think it's worth it usually but it is there.
- redrobot5050 15y ago>So in other words it's still slow but because of vendor pressure it's been lumped into "The OS" to hide that cost from the user? I only used it on a Mac, before I discovered plugins that did Facebook integration for iPhoto (and later, that was baked in). And on OS X, no, it was not slow. I'm assuming it would be equally fast for windows. Also, its not so much lumping the start up cost to "the OS" so much as "The OS Starting Up". How often do people reboot their machines nowadays? Once every six months? With that in mind, it's a pretty negligible trade off.
- sausagefeet 15y agoIn all honesty the only feature one social network has over another is where my friends are. I never check the stuff otherwise.
- JacobIrwin 15y agoSo what, Jeff is proud of his discovery. So what, he made a few snarks. I appreciate the info and he's ultimately correct. "[I] heard it here first."
- balakc 15y agoFB giving Google a run for its money
- uvTwitch 15y agoSo, Facebook is going the way of MySpace then?