(Note: This story was co-written with Variety’s Andrew Wallenstein)

At its f8 conference Thursday, Facebook introduced a new class of apps that will allow viewing and sharing of content on its massive social platform via partners including Netflix, Hulu and Spotify.

The apps allow Facebook users to see which songs, movies, TV shows, news and games are being consumed by friends and to sample that content as part of a reformatted Facebook page layout.

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