Is Facebook planning a Digg style feature?

After essentially killing off the HearWhere Facebook app this morning, and replacing it with a simple ability to post links to HearWhere shows on Facebook, I got to wondering if Facebook, and this applies to MySpace almost equally, will add a digg type feature to the site.

Obviously the social network is already in place, and link pages are a somewhat regular occurance.
so how big a step would this be to implement this in profiles.

The same applies for MySpace, though I don't know that linking pages is as ingrained.

FriendFeed is too Easy, and maybe Facebook should follow suit

Though I haven't been a HUGE follower of twitter, or friendfeed, in the past week I've started to slowly come around to what FriendFeed is offering.

So, I decided to give the FriendFeed api a try, and see what it was like.

WOW! that is just FAR too easy. The api set-up is simple, beyond words. I had the api sending data from HearWhere to FriendFeed within maybe 20 minutes of downloading the api pack.

Whether or not people actually share HearWhere shows using FriendFeed is an entirely different matter, but you can try it out on the HearWhere site.

The simplicity of the FriendFeed api, combined with the lack of interest in the HearWhere facebook app, and the upcoming changes to Facebook have also lead to changes sharing HearWhere shows on Facebook.

Now, rather than adding the application, HearWhere will just post a link to Facebook, and that link will be shared with your friends.
Unfortunately, that means that for the time being the capability of seeing what shows your friends are going to with a list of friends going to that show is no longer available.
Though with the low volume of users who signed-up for the Facebook app, it appears that functionality was limited anyway - can't see who's going if nobody has installed the app.

The FriendFeed team deserve a huge congratulations for making their api so simple.

HearWhere.com releases iPhone version of site

The HearWhere tagline of 'find live music anywhere' has taken on new meaning with the launch of the iPhone version of the site 'http://iPhone.HearWhere.com'.

Now live music can be discovered anywhere around the world, from anywhere in the world, no longer tethered to a desktop.

The idea for the mobile version (not supporting flash lite just yet), is that now while out to dinner with friends, you can take out your iPhone, lookup who's playing near by, have a listen to a few bands, and decide what to go see.

Now get out and support the live music scene!

PR with the lemmings, or go against the grain

With the US long weekend over, I am working on getting some PR to further the growth of HearWhere.

Lots of blogs advise to submitting Press Releases on Tuesdays through Thursdays.
The theory being that if you release on Friday, it sits around over the weekend and doesn't get enough attention when nobody is looking, and Monday people are catching up on the press releases that you shouldn't have sent in on Friday(?).

However, does this also mean that most Press Releases get submitted mid-week and therefore there is more competition on those days? Since everybody is taking the advice of the PR blogs, should I zig while everybody else zags? or follow the advice of the experts?

iPhone without Flash???

Thankfully nobody is reading this blog, but even if you are, and you've seen HearWhere, I assume it isn't a stretch to say 'hey, this would be cool on the iPhone'.
But there is a hitch, Apple has decided not to allow Flash to be installed on the iPhone.

I found this strange as so many great media sites use flash, but Quicktime supports flash files, so it might not be as detrimental as first impressions would make you think.

However, the question still has to be asked, why would Apple block flash? What is there strategy with using quicktime as a flash player? if that is there strategy at all.... puzzling...