AppleInsider StaffAccording to the report by PaidContent, the social networking site, which caters to over 34 million registered members, is designing the platform to allow bands and labels to create artists pages, and allow various widgets to be embedded for music promotion, organizing events, and more.
"Among those widgets would be iLike, the most popular app inside Facebook, but will also include iTunes widgets for sampling (to begin with), and eventually buying music through Apple," the report states. "The service will still have the utilitarian sensibilities of the Facebook platform, the sources stress, rather than the more chaotic and flashy platform that MySpace has."
Facebook has reportedly been making the rounds of music labels trying to get this service off the ground, but will also have "an actual deal with Apple" as part of the music platform initiative.
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Well my Apple stock is doing well.
When is Facebook's IPO??
Don't know, but they are the "it" girl right now, aren't they?
I still can't understand why anyone would want to post all of their personal information online, but hey, you can't knock success.
"to begin with"
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I still can't understand why anyone would want to post all of their personal information online, but hey, you can't knock success.
Because narcissism is a virtue in US culture
People will try to make money off it, revealing (as if it was concealed)
another attribute of our national psyche.
I dont think the Facebook artist pages are going to rival myspace at all. Myspace has such a huge foundation right now, it's kind of ridiculous to try and fight it at this point. I am on both, I check myspace everyday, where as I check facebook maybe once a week. The general public does the same I feel. Myspace just had a better concept from the beginning and others are just trying to copy it. I will admit, some of the coding for myspace could be a lot better, but at the end of the day, they fix the problems and add new ones. I can't see facebook doing so well.