The Streema Blog

With the latest addition of the Facebook Login Button we’ve added one more chapter to our relationship with the social networking site – a relationship that has been a long and exciting journey. Here is our story.

Ever since Streema’s beginnings, we’ve wanted our site to be a social network for radio listeners. When Facebook launched its Application Platform back in mid-2007 we looked at that as a natural step in that direction, so we started developing an application in late 2007. We did some really cool stuff with that app, even growing to become one of the biggest radio apps out there and winning a “hockey stick award“. As we grew, Facebook Page owners started asking for a way to add stations to their pages, so we went ahead and built an application for Pages.

Unfortunately, Facebook started deprecating certain features for Pages, so we couldn’t continue developing that particular application and we closed it in 2010. Then last year, we realized that we couldn’t dedicate resources to our original Facebook app for listeners and we stopped developing it as well.

Then, the story took an interesting turn, bringing us to today. Our community of users continued growing and Facebook continued evolving their strategy to create a more social web, launching Open Graph in the past year. So we thought this was a great opportunity to bring Facebook back into our life by adding the “Login with Facebook” button – as a result, now you can use your Facebook account to login to Streema while sharing your Streema activity. We think that’s the way to go for now and, although we know there are many things we could do, we believe this is the start of a deeper integration with Facebook.

In a few words, yesterday we had an application (or, rather, two applications) on Facebook; today we have the “Login with Facebook”; and tomorrow, the truth is we don’t exactly know, but we have a few ideas. What’s certain is that we’ll keep working with Facebook and other applications / social networks to create the best social radio experience on the web.

Stay tuned!

The Streema Team

We wanted to let you know, in case you still haven’t seen them, that we added ads to our Facebook application just a few days ago.

In particular, we’ve added two type of ads:  one on the canvas of the application (check the screen shot above) and a small one on the popup player. The ads that appear might not be most interesting for now, but we are trying different ad networks in order to show the most meaningful and interesting ones.  We also hope that you find some of them entertaining.  :)

As always, we want to know what you think about this, so don’t hesitate to send us your feedback.

Stay tuned!

The Streema Team

So, we have some more good news: today we released a new application for Facebook called “Streema Radio Tuner for Pages“. If you have a Facebook Page, this application is for you!

“Streema Radio Tuner for Pages” allows you to add a radio station to your Page, so that visitors can listen to radio directly from there. Clearly, we weren’t satisfied with only one application, so we created another one! :P

Jokes aside, what happened was that many Radio Owners, DJs, and Producers wanted to include our classic application “Streema Radio Tuner” on their Pages, so we figured we’d give them a way to do that.

With this new application, we hope to approach many Radio Page owners or any Page administrators who want to improve their visitors’ experience. This is something really new, so we look forward to receive your feedback!

Stay tuned!

The Streema Team

PS: If you have a radio, band, or any other music-related product or service, we highly recommend creating a Page on Facebook by following a few easy steps. For more information, click here.

Today we’re celebrating that we’ve reached 500 “Fans” on our Facebook application – this deserves a high five!!!

Among our hundreds fans, we have people mainly from these countries: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Slovakia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela; and we also have fans from: Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Grenada, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Jordan, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, Nepal, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, and the Virgin Islands. This means we have fans from 50 countries… only 142 more to go! :P

As always, and now more than ever, we encourage you to continue sharing, recommending and enjoying Streema!

Stay tuned!

The Streema Team