Just hours after Facebook launched it’s Facebook + Skype video chat service computer software engineer Jeff Rose made a pretty interesting discovery.
Rose was hesitant of what he was installing (Facebook + Skype) so he examined the code where he found reference to two installers instead of just one.
- Peep – which is related to the new video chat client
- Vibes – which is related to a music downloading service
Sure, vibes could reference anything really; however the code snippet reveals ”MusicDownloadDialog” which leads us to believe not.
Snippet Of Code
if (paramString.equals(“com.facebook.peep”))
return this.window.getMember(“VideoChatPlugin”);
if (paramString.equals(“com.facebook.vibes”)) {
return this.window.getMember(“MusicDownloadDialog“);
}
So the question is, will this be a downloading service, who have they partnered with, is it related to cloud? Something that strikes me as odd is yesterday, Spotify, a free European music service which streams over 13 million songs just launched in the United States. Could there be a partnership in the making? We’ve known for a while Facebook has been working on a music service. It only makes sense for the largest social media company to jump on board, sooner than later we’ll know the answer.
Source [LifeIsAGraph] [Mashable]
