Musical Zombies that Read Your Mind

Facebook is using it’s virtual spy planes and blanket ruling that the phrase ‘privacy issues’ must never be raised at Facesoft Towers to develop Facebook Music and steal the sampled thunder from MySpace.

Here’s how it works:

Major and independent label artists and will register their sub-domain name through Facebook. Like “www.facebook.com/insertbandnamehere” for example.

On this page Facebook users will be allowed to become “fans” of the artist and connect to the media hosted on the “artist page.”

In the first generation of Facebook Music “fans” will be allowed to listen to artist’s music, watch videos, upload pictures, add music to their page, receive tour information and interact with other fans. Online music moguls, be warned.

Future generations will come quickly and allow unprecedented targeted marketing, ad buys and media promotion. Facebook is developing artist specific sales widgets to allow for music sales through the site as well.

This is only the first generation of Facebook Music and Zuckerberg has stated that users can expect future developments that include a head-on assault on iTunes and MTV, possible intergration with the iLike application and the ultimate goal being to consume MySpace Music - Tom Anderson’s bread and butter. (via Co-Ed)

This is all unconfirmed, particularly the notion that virtual zombies sent by your FaceFriends may sing about losing child custody and lady razors whilst eating your brain and selling it’s puke back to the highest bidder so they can put stickers on it, or annotate it or something.

Musical discovery has become so fractured that we’re starting to need an audio scrobbler type technology to suggest similar music discovery sites based on the one’s we already use, sort of Last.fm for Last.fm, Pandora, Napster, Hype Machine, MySpace Music, etc…

Music is the content glue that binds innovation (nice words, not sure what that particular metaphor actually means!). First the web was about sharing academic documents and military secrets, then it was about ripping and sharing music, then it was about talking about the music you ripped and lying about your athleticism, then is got smaller and got mobile and it got music.

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