Apple has launched three “My Tunes” Widgets giving users an easy way to keep friends and family up-to-date with the user’s favorite music, TV shows, movies, and more.
My iTunes widgets are simple, self-updating add-ons for your web page, social-networking profile, or blog.
Use My iTunes to share your top reviews, favorite artists, and new music, movies, and TV shows from the iTunes Store with anyone who visits your site.
My iTunes widgets can be customized by size and style. My iTunes widgets can be embedded on any Flash-enabled website, including most blogs and social-networking profiles. Users can also use the My iTunes feed with any standard RSS or ATOM feed reader. Most feed readers require that users simply paste the feed URL in a special section to view their updated activity.
Apple’s “My Tunes” Widgets:
• My iTunes Purchases : The most recent music, music videos, TV shows, and movies you’ve purchased from the iTunes Store.
• My iTunes Reviews: Music, music videos, TV shows, and movies you’ve given a 4- or 5-star rating on the iTunes Store.
• My iTunes Favorites: The artists whose music you’ve purchased the most from the iTunes Store.
Users need to have iTunes installed on their computer and a free iTunes Store account in order to use My iTunes.
See My iTunes in action here.
Since when did “Widgets” become embeded stuff for websites instead of Dashboard-expansions ?
iMatt,
I agree completely. I think this is a great idea but is very different from a traditional widget in Dashboard. Regardless, I think Apple is moving one step closer to the idea of sharing music and creating a social network based around music tastes. We’ll see what happens in the future, especially with new ipods on the horizon.
iMatt & iBrenden
I think maybe Apple is using the word “Widget” as they do now in the new iWeb in the iLife ’08 Suite. In iWeb they are called “Web Widgets”. If the article would have used the term “Web Widget” it would have been more acurate.
It has nothing to do with sharing music, it has to do with selling more music by exposing people to other’s collections.
Music sharing is not going to be legal in my lifetime.
It’s cool though – fun and looks good.
See my quickie here:
http://web.mac.com/thebeatles/Site/MyTunes.html
Well, I pasted that cr@p onto my iWeb page and, well, simply got a crappy pile of code. Like below. So how do you get the nice widgit to appear?
<embed name=”my_itunes” align=”top” width=”150″ scale=”noscale” height=”330″ pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer” salign=”lt” class=”widget” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” quality=”high” menu=”false” src=”http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/flash/myitunes/myitunes.swf?feed=WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/ws/RSS/myrecentpurchases/artworkheight=53/html=false/sf=143441/userid=24774622/xml?v0=7720&feedType=recent&cssPath=http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/flash/myitunes/styles/default.css&local=143441″ allowScriptAccess=”always”></embed>
So if we can now add the ability to launch individual widgets on my desktop without running ALL my widgets and freezing up my system for 2 minutes…… then I could actually use them. thank you
I’m not really interested in what others are listening to and the reverse is probably true too. If I find something someone I know will probably like and not know about, I can tell ’em directly. However, I will defend anyone’s right to use a widget to facilitate intercourse with members of the same species.
“My iTunes widgets can be embedded on any Flash-enabled website”…
…which can not be displayed on the iPhone’s browser.
Great Job, Apple! What, you couldn’t do this with Ajax?
@Me in LA,
Thanks for posting your example. I clicked on a song and was transported to the iTunes store.
My question is how much money would you get were I to then make a purchase? Amazon does this. I would shudder to think Apple doesn’t even give store credit for referrals. But that appears to be the case. *shudder*
“Since when did “Widgets” become embeded stuff for websites instead of Dashboard-expansions ?”
Yeah, they should be called “web widgets” since that’s what they really are. Anyway, you can still run these on Dashboard using Amnesty Generator:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/22984
<embed name=”my_itunes” align=”top” width=”150″ scale=”noscale” height=”330″ pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer” salign=”lt” class=”myituneswidget” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” quality=”high” menu=”false” src=”http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/wa/widget?type=1&sf=143441″ flashvars=”host=http://ax.itunes.apple.com&feed=WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/ws/RSS/myrecentpurchases/artworkheight=53/html=false/sf=143441/userid=106098411/xml?v0=7720&feedType=recent&cssPath=http://ax.itunes.apple.com/flash/myitunes/styles/black.css&local=143441″ allowScriptAccess=”always”></embed>
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