Spotify is asking listeners to check out a set of Tech Puzzles located on the music service’s website, where the feature appears within the jobs section.

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Facebook announced plans to crank up the music by allowing users to listen to songs their friends are listening to, saying that it began rolling out the Listen With button today and will complete the task over the next few weeks.

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Have you checked out the music section on the timeline yet?

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Spotify is incorporating the Facebook philosophy of using free, open-source applications in an effort to become a music platform in its own right.

Evolver.fm reported that Spotify Chief Executive Officer Daniel Ek said in a blog entry that the apps will be coded in HTML5, and they will be part of the Spotify app, so users won’t be required to install any other software.

He said that developers can build apps via a JavaScript application programming interface API.

Ek added that users can access these apps whether or not they are Spotify subscribers, according to Evolver.fm, and he said that for now, developer partners do not share in revenue.

He also said many of the apps were in response to user requests, and it made more sense to outsource those features to third-party developers.

Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner also appeared at today’s press conference in New York, where Ek described the music magazine’s version of the Spotify App as including “editorial, concert tickets, lyrics, and many, many more experiences … just the perfect companion to read about the stuff you want to hear as you hear it.”

Wenner said the online magazine’s version of the app will soon add playlists.

Spotify Apps have already been created by Last.fm, We Are Hunted, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Pitchfork, Songkick, TuneWiki, Dagbladet, Soundrop, Top10, Billboard, Fuse, Gaffa, ShareMyPlaylists, Tunigo, and MoodAgent.

The TuneWiki app displays the lyrics to songs users are listening to, and the Songkick app offers information on whether artists currently being played are performing anywhere in users’ areas, including ticket purchasing, if applicable.

Readers, how are you listening to music these days, and how have your habits changed with technological advancements?

Facebook’s music player and Discography apps, the last traces of the long-rumored but never-launched music dashboard, went silent as of yesterday.

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Our weekly list of the fastest growing applications on Facebook takes on a different look now that the site has changed how it counts active users. The previous tally included everyone who grants permission to an application regardless of whether they’ve gone on to use the app, while the new statistics exclude those who’ve permitted but haven’t actually used the application.

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One reason Facebook’s integration of music services Spotify, Vevo, Rdio and Mog was so heavily anticipated ahead of last week’s formal announcement: The ability to share tunes and discuss them with friends is a treasured feature for Internet radio.

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The addition of Spotify to the music dashboard that Facebook launched last week created a side-effect addition of its own: Users who listen to a lot of music throughout the day are also unintentionally notification-bombing their friends.

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Get a load of the invite to one of this evening’s parties, capping off a day of Facebook product announcements at the annual f8 developer conference.
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It’s nice when companies keep their word. Spotify kept its promise and officially became available in the U.S. today.
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