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Last week, Google made a huge dent in the online music space by launching Google Music Search, and now with exclusive content in google music related searches, Yahoo is feeling the heat. The number two player in search has started offering an online music video search. (Read Mashable for the full coverage on Google Music Search and Yahoo Music Video Search).
The online music battle is clearly starting to heat up which only means that other players are trying to grab a bigger piece of that Apple Pie (pun intended – read more on Silicon Alley Insider). Lala, MySpace Music, iMeem, Pandora, iLike and Last.FM look like the biggest winners with the affiliate music sale revenues from Google Music Search related results. The biggest winner of all may be Amazon MP3 Downloads, which a lot of streaming music services piggy back off of for legal music purchasing. (I’m personally a huge fan of Amazon MP3. I’ve spent over $30 on MP3 downloads — you can thank me later Taylor Swift and Dobie Gray).
There’s one player who’s trying to make it to the party on time. Over the past year, you may have noticed the Ajax related navigational changes to Facebook. Throughout the year, I think (and this is just speculation) that Facebook has successfully re-engineered its user interface using AJAX. This is blatantly obvious given the changes to the URL’s while navigating through one’s Facebook. Next time you log on, pay attention to the ‘#’ after the initial Facebook page you land on.
Go from the home page and then click on your inbox
“http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/inbox/?ref=mb”
So what’s the big deal? Everyone is moving towards Ajax based web applications. Even Google announced earlier they are making strides in indexing Ajax related content. The big deal is that there is a fundamental problem with music applications on Facebook. The user experience has been horrible because music playback gets interrupted while a user browses page links within Facebook. Ajax solves this problem.
Sure Facebook could be moving towards Ajax for a more enjoyable Facebook chat web experience … But more likely, with Facebook’s recent announcements on focusing on platform applications … it almost seems like Facebook is stepping up to challenge the big guys.
Is Facebook about to take a huge bite of that Apple pie?
Let us know what you think!
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Is Facebook planning on taking challenging Google on music? New Facebook ajax navigation
The online music battle is clearly starting to heat up which only means that other players are trying to grab a bigger piece of that Apple Pie (pun intended – read more on Silicon Alley Insider). Lala, MySpace Music, iMeem, Pandora, iLike and Last.FM look like the biggest winners with the affiliate music sale revenues from Google Music Search related results. The biggest winner of all may be Amazon MP3 Downloads, which a lot of streaming music services piggy back off of for legal music purchasing. (I’m personally a huge fan of Amazon MP3. I’ve spent over $30 on MP3 downloads — you can thank me later Taylor Swift and Dobie Gray).
So what’s the big deal? Everyone is moving towards Ajax based web applications. Even Google announced earlier they are making strides in indexing Ajax related content. The big deal is that there is a fundamental problem with music applications on Facebook. The user experience has been horrible because music playback gets interrupted while a user browses page links within Facebook. Ajax solves this problem.
Sure Facebook could be moving towards Ajax for a more enjoyable Facebook chat web experience … But more likely, with Facebook’s recent announcements on focusing on platform applications … it almost seems like Facebook is stepping up to challenge the big guys.
Is Facebook about to take a huge bite of that Apple pie?
Let us know what you think!
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