Integration of music sharing with Open Graph 1.5 billion shares already

Open Graph sharing protocol illustration (Facebook blog)

“Facebook is declaring early success for the new functionality on its site that lets members notify their friends what songs they’re listening to online and makes it possible for notification recipients to play back those songs from within the Facebook interface.” ComputerWorld 

If you’re confused about how to do it, join the crowd.

Facebook has enabled Open Graph for developers of music apps withing Facebook to support social music sharing.

You have to be a customer of Spotify, Earbits, Rdio, Slacker and Deezer to use social music. All of these services are subscription based and some are not available in Canada.

Since social music was announced at the f8 conference, Spotify has gained 4 million users.  Spotify has been US only but they are taking email addresses for the Canadian launch.

More music sources are expected to sign up for the Open Graph Protocol as the feature takes hold with Facebook users, according to the FB blog.