LastfmSocial Blog http://blog.lastfmsocial.com Updates on lastfmsocial.com. A service that helps you share your last.fm loved tracks on facebook and more! Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:26:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Privacy Options http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2011/09/privacy-options/ http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2011/09/privacy-options/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:26:08 +0000 admin http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/?p=66 Just launched privacy options! Now you can select if your posts are visible to friends, friends of friends or public. The default is obviously just friends. Please note that this setting is limited by the setting you have defined for the app in your facebook privacy settings. So if you’ve set privacy on facebook to friends, the app can’t make your posts public.

Enjoy and don’t forget to make a donation if you like this app!

]]> http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2011/09/privacy-options/feed/ 0 Coming up: Embedded youTube videos http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2011/04/embedded-youtube-videos/ http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2011/04/embedded-youtube-videos/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:50:28 +0000 admin http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/?p=54 UPDATE: This feature is now available to everybody :D

Hello and sorry for not updating this blog for a while.

As the title says, I’m working on a new feature for Last.fm Social and that’s embedding youtube videos in the place of where the album art usually appears! Now that’s pretty cool because you and your friends can listen to the track right there on your facebook wall. It looks like this:

And when you click on play it opens up the youtube video just like when you share youTube videos manually:

Pretty neat eh?

Now all this is very beta mostly because the app tries to match the artist and title of the track to the title of the youTube video.  So expect some false matches here and there. If the app doesn’t find a video it falls back to the album art.

Now this feature is eventually going to be available for all users but initially this is going to be available only for users who have supported the app by making a small donation. If you would like to try out this feature in advance of the official release (in a month or so from now), please consider making a small donation here.

I am also working on privacy options, which is something a few of you have asked for but don’t have an ETA for now. Stay tuned for more.

Lastfmsocial.com is the only app that connects your last.fm to your facebook.

 

]]> http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2011/04/embedded-youtube-videos/feed/ 3 New pages rolled out http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2010/11/new-pages-rolled-out/ http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2010/11/new-pages-rolled-out/#comments Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:30:15 +0000 admin http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/?p=49 Just a quick heads up to let you know that I just rolled out some new pages including FAQs, Referral page and a support page through which you can donate to help with server costs. Last.fm and facebook were never this close!

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Last.fm loved track on facebook as compact=

Keep sharing music from last.fm to facebook with lastfmsocial.com

]]> http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2010/10/more-customization-options-for-your-facebook-feed/feed/ 1 Help us grow. Spread the love! http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2010/09/help-us-grow-spread-the-love/ http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2010/09/help-us-grow-spread-the-love/#comments Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:57:56 +0000 admin http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/?p=36 We’ve cooked up some buttons and links that you can use to put up in your blogs, pages and websites:
http://www.lastfmsocial.com/referral
We really appreciate the feedback and enthusiasm so far!

]]> http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2010/09/help-us-grow-spread-the-love/feed/ 0 Customization in Facebook main text is here! http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2010/08/customization-in-facebook-main-text-is-here/ http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2010/08/customization-in-facebook-main-text-is-here/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:49:50 +0000 admin http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/?p=32 You asked for it! Now you can customize the post text to ‘loves’ instead of the default ‘♥’. Let me know if you would like some other format. Try it out by logging into your account and selecting the relevant option. This feature is in beta so let me know if you run into any issues. Have fun!

]]> http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2010/08/customization-in-facebook-main-text-is-here/feed/ 2 itunes links! http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2010/08/itunes-links/ http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2010/08/itunes-links/#comments Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:51:51 +0000 admin http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/?p=29 We’re very excited to announce itunes links for shared tracks! Specifically a small text link at the bottom of a post (next to the like button) will appear if we have found the shared track in itunes’ music store. Now you can download the track or even suggest to your friends to do the same. This is a great way to support the artists you love. As always give us feedback in the comments below. Thanks!

Share you last.fm loved tracks on facebook with lastfmsocial.com

]]> http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2010/08/itunes-links/feed/ 2 Lastfm social – what it does http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2010/07/lastfm-social-what-it-does/ http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2010/07/lastfm-social-what-it-does/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:49:54 +0000 admin http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/?p=25 We just added some info on our homepage to better explain to people how the process works and how one shares last.fm loved tracks on facebook. If you haven’t tried it give it a go!

]]> http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2010/07/lastfm-social-what-it-does/feed/ 0 Lastfm Social loves facebook app directory http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2010/07/facebook-application-directory/ http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2010/07/facebook-application-directory/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:37:49 +0000 admin http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/?p=18 Just a quick note to let you know that we have been granted access to facebook’s application directory! Just visit http://www.facebook.com/apps/directory.php and search for “last.fm” and you should see us on the second or third page of results. Don’t forget to join us on last.fm social application page on facebook. Isn’t it great to share loved tracks on facebook?!

]]> http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2010/07/facebook-application-directory/feed/ 0 Facebook is only the beginning http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2010/07/facebook-is-only-the-beginning/ http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/2010/07/facebook-is-only-the-beginning/#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 23:10:05 +0000 admin http://blog.lastfmsocial.com/?p=9 Sharing my last.fm loved tracks on facebook is the reason I started this project, there are a few features I’ve been thinking about:

  1. Optionally sharing loved tracks simultaneously on twitter

  2. Adding links for download/purchase on amazon

  3. User customization options for displayed text

Some I’m already doing preliminary work on. This was always going to be a multiple social network solution. I’ll give it some more thought and let you know what I decide to do next. Feel free to comment.

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