Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster and Facebook, speaks on the future of data sharing.

While at Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Sean Parker, venture capitalist and co-founder of Facebook, Napster, and Spotify speaks to the challenges facing data sharing and the future of the music industry.

ReverbNation Launches PROMOTE IT — Revolutionary Facebook Advertising System for Artists, Labels, Venues & Promoters

ReverbNation, the leading provider of marketing, promotion and social media tools for over 1.7 million artists/bands, labels, managers, venues, festivals and other  music industry professionals, today announced the public launch of PROMOTE IT, the first end-to-end music promotion system designed to help artists, labels and venues reach more fans on Facebook® and drive deeper fan engagement.

Artists/Bands and their aforementioned support teams can use PROMOTE IT to quickly and easily run campaigns that:

§  Promote songs to reach new fans

§  Promote Facebook Pages to increase exposure

§  Promote shows to boost attendance and ticket sales

§  Promote releases to drive song sales

For more info on PROMOTE IT, including the Press Release, some case study results and even a video on “how a real artist launches a PROMOTE IT campaign in less than :90

Pandora + Facebook: The Potent Mix of Friend & Song...

Remember when people used to sit around and listen to music together? Of course, those moments still exist, but the digital music experience is often a private pleasure.

So how to reconnect? Pandora is addressing that question by integrating itself into Facebook, a huge move towards networked listening. At a top level, the integration allows friends to quickly share stations with their Facebook friends, part of a much broader "Open Graph" build-out for Facebook. Pandora is a major component of that expansion, and was discussed prominently by Mark Zuckerberg during a keynote at the F8 Developer Conference on Wednesday.

The idea is delightfully simple and connected. Pandora users can easily link their Facebook profiles and friends into their stations, or, opt-out to remain private. But why not hold hands on this new discovery commune? "I've been testing out the service while we were developing it and I have to say it really brings a wonderful new human dimension to the listening experience," Pandora founder Tim Westergren relayed.

Source: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/042110facebook