Facebook + Spotify do not own social music
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Facebook + Spotify do not own social music
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Re: Facebook + Spotify do not own social music
#2Haha, how ironic that their iPhone app requires Facebook login.
Re: Facebook + Spotify do not own social music
#3Haha, how ironic that their iPhone app requires Facebook login.
Hi Jarin. The next version (in development) will certainly allow users to log in via Twitter, and today, you can test drive Rexly without logging into Facebook, if you don't want to. The reason we did it this way (to start) is to provide a social music discovery experience with your closest friends, which we believe are on Facebook, for the most part. I hope this helps explain, for now.
Re: Facebook + Spotify do not own social music
#4I would argue that last.fm wasa first massively social music service, and it also shown that social side is not all bright. I made a few good friends there but the amount of hate and loathing in shoutboxes astonishes.
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#5"Pull down the barriers! Share music with all your friends!"
As long as they have an iPhone. Just about everyone I know has an Android-based phone, when they have a smartphone at all. Oops.
Re: Facebook + Spotify do not own social music
#6The encouraging speech for the troops before the battle.
Re: Facebook + Spotify do not own social music
#7"Pull down the barriers! Share music with all your friends!" As long as they have an iPhone. Just about everyone I know has an Android-based phone, when they have a smartphone at all. Oops.
Hi Tim. Everyone I know has an iPhone...but, yeah, it's on our roadmap. We are a bootstrapped startup so had to pick a platform to enter with, and like scores of others, for obvious reasons, chose iOS. Please don't kill us! FWIW, all services and platforms are on our roadmap, and you can still use Rexly on your laptop/desktop with similar functionality.
Re: Facebook + Spotify do not own social music
#8The encouraging speech for the troops before the battle.
Exactly! Thanks for reading, Martin.
Re: Facebook + Spotify do not own social music
#9I would argue that last.fm wasa first massively social music service, and it also shown that social side is not all bright. I made a few good friends there but the amount of hate and loathing in shoutboxes astonishes.
Interesting. On Rexly, it's sort of less about "making friends," although that could happen, and more about getting social cues from friends about new music to discover. Those cues are likely to be strongest from those whom you trust, and those whom you trust are likely to be those whom you know well, unless they are liars.
Re: Facebook + Spotify do not own social music
#10I would argue that last.fm wasa first massively social music service, and it also shown that social side is not all bright. I made a few good friends there but the amount of hate and loathing in shoutboxes astonishes.
Interesting. On Rexly, it's sort of less about "making friends," although that could happen, and more about getting social cues from friends about new music to discover. Those cues are likely to be strongest from those whom you trust, and those whom you trust are likely to be those whom you know well, unless they are liars.
When you have a friendship graph and listen info, you can both match users by their taste and recommend music based on their graph. last.fm did both and more. You can also do non-social personal and non-personal recommendations based on artist "similarities" derived from correlating user tastes. Last.fm does that too.
Another thing is that social network tracks social graph, not "friends" in the narrow sense; some of people in my social graph are likely to listen to the same kind of music than I (active friends); some are likely to listen to white noise (extended family, former close friends, collegues and people I studied with). You basically need circles!