Songza Rocks on with API, RSS Feeds, and a Facebook App

Songza, the company founded by Scott Robbin and Aza Raskin during their time together at Humanized, has jumped into the social web frenzy.

For those that are unaware, Songza is a streaming internet jukebox and music search and recommendation engine (for the record, they are in full compliance with music download laws and they do pay royalties where necessary).

They’ve launched a facebook app that tracks what you’re listening to, shows the songs on your profile and shares them with your friends through your minifeed. It also includes direct links to the specific songs on Songza so that your friends can go listen to the songs and add them to their playlist as well; a sort of social music recommendation system if you will.

In addition to the Facebook app, the site now also generates rss feeds for your personal playlist, the site’s most popular songs, and the featured music list where up-and-coming acts pay a small fee to get their songs exposed to Songza’s users. The obvious advantage here being that you can know push what you’re listening to to places like Twitter and FriendFeed.

Finally, they’ve opened their API, giving developers access to site data for the featured songs list, user playlists, and the last ten songs a user has added. It will be especially cool to see the types of mashups that come from this. Maybe, down the road, they’ll allow users to indicate their location and enable the type of mashup that would allow tracking of music trends across the country.

Songza looks like its becoming another great addition to the already startup-strong Ravenswood corridor.

(Songza Company Profile)

Posted on Friday, May 16th, 2008 at 5:12 pm | Filed in Front Page. Comments Feed

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