Another big milestone passed this week – we went live on Facebook with our new Music Wall application.

As a mobile search company, why are we doing this? Well, we prioritised music-related content early on as one of the first types of search that Taptu handles really well on mobile. The Music Wall takes advantage of our huge content index to give Facebook users a great way to express their music preferences to friends. It will also help us promote the Taptu mobile search service to the Facebook community.

Matt and Marc, the User Experience guys, created the look of the app, allowing you to put your top 5 songs or videos straight on your profile. They set themselves the challenge to create the most attractive, cool looking and easiest to use music widget that exists in the Facebook platform. iLike was our benchmark for comparison and Apple’s Coverflow was a big source of inspiration. We hope you like it and have as much fun finding some obscure songs and videos for your profile.

We’re also gearing up for Mobile 2.0 in San Francisco on October 15th, when the Taptu service will go public for the first time. Feedback from our first private beta users has been very good with coverage in the US with Symbian Guru, France and Germany. Between now and the 15th we will be extending more and more private invitations, so if you’ve registered for the early beta service then expect to hear from us very soon!

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