Pandora Partners with Facebook for Social Music

Music discovery engine Pandora is receiving some deep social integration with Facebook, Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today at the F8 Developer Conference.

Made possible by Facebook’s new Open Graph protocol, Pandora will be able to stream music directly on Facebook.com from bands you’ve “liked” across the web. You’ll be able to see which of your friends likes similar music and check out what other music they like and have in their collections.

The combination of Open Graph and the new, wide-reaching “Facebook Like” button around the web means that “liking” a band on a third-party site will register with your Facebook profile, which can in turn inform your Pandora profile even while you’re discovering music at other points around the web. It also tightly hooks your Pandora profile with your “real” social graph of friends on Facebook.

from Mashable

Pandora: On the Screen, On the Shelf

When James Cameron's blockbuster film AVATAR hit the silver screen, two companion books hit our library's shelves.

The art of Avatar : James Cameron's epic adventure (by Lisa Fitzpatrick) explores the developmental and conceptual art used to create Avatar's fictional world, Pandora.

Avatar : a confidential report on the biological and social history of Pandora (by Maria Wilhelm & Dirk Mathison) details the animal and plant life of Pandora's alien ecosystem and the anthropology of its indigenous people, the Na'vi.

For availability, please search the online catalog.