Hey Jarek, Using last.fm is a great idea! We'll add that as an option for users signing up without Facebook and use it to pre-populate the artists you follow based on your most scrobbled artists on Last.fm.
Other ways to sign up are coming very soon, we just wanted to get this out the door as soon as it was usable.
Using last.fm is a great idea! We'll add that as an option for users signing up without Facebook and use it to pre-populate the artists you follow based on your most scrobbled artists on Last.fm.
Yes you'll be able to manage it yourself. We are working on a tool to let you search for artists to follow and to suggest you similar artists to follow.
This is just version 1. We launched with Facebook connect only because that was the fastest way we could launch it in a usable way. When you connect, we grab the artists you like on Facebook to generate your personal feed. There will be other ways to sign up soon!
Facebook pulls in anything a user you've requested to be a friend of shares publicly. It's not because you're part of a group, it's because of the privacy settings on their status updates.
"CNN reported that Twitter acquired the business for more than $40 million in a mix of cash and stock. If confirmed, the deal would end nearly 6 months of rumors about advanced talks between the two companies."
The headline is misleading. CNN didn't confirm, they just reported on it.
Before today, certain accounts could go beyond the 15 minute limit (partner accounts, director accounts, things like that). Starting today, regular YouTube users who have been on the site for a while and haven't caused any copyright problems for YouTube can also go beyond that 15 minutes. Power to the people.
The company (Sendible) is claiming they weren't hacked -
"Just to clarify, Sendible was not hacked. One of our users has discovered a major flaw in Facebook's security."
Regardless of whether or not YouTube could build this with the team they have, it makes perfect sense to me that they'd want to hire a smart, self-motivated person who's passionate about their product.