MySpace has entered into an agreement to acquire iLike

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We wanted our artist community to be among the very first to hear officially that MySpace has entered into an agreement to acquire iLike.

We’re sure you have a ton of questions, most importantly: How will this affect me or the artist/band I manage?

Our friends at MySpace share our commitment to helping fans discover your content and connect with you online. Together we hope to make our social music discovery platform even more powerful. Most artists manage their online artist presence via a MySpace page and separately via iLike & Garageband. It’s an obvious opportunity for us to integrate these services to give you easier technology and access to more fans. We expect to announce some cool new features and integrations in the future.

And that’s not the only big iLike development in the last few days. iLike is now enabling music fans who discover and share your music on iLike.com to purchase songs and albums (in MP3 format) in-page directly from us.

Our download service provides a smooth, immediate in-page purchase experience. Fans can sign up, enter their credit card, and download music without ever leaving the page they discovered your music on. We think the speed and convenience of our service will spur music sales.

We’re delighted to be selling music from all the major labels and hundreds of indie labels through our partnership with MediaNet. We’ve heard loud and clear from lots of independent artists who want to find ways to sell their music directly. We have nothing to announce about this yet, but your feedback has been heard, just give us some time.

Our MP3 download service is currently in Beta, meaning that it’s an early preview, we’ll improve it rapidly as we get feedback from fans and artists. We’ll also make it available on iLike’s applications on leading social networks. Our goal over time is to offer music fans the ability to impulse buy in-page from wherever they are.

Change is exciting, but we know it can also cause anxiety – even when the developments are good. We’ll continue to update you when there is anything new or noteworthy to share. We value your ongoing support and we welcome your feedback.

Sincerely,

Ali & Hadi Partovi, co-founders, iLike
 
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2-0-Sixx

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Our download service provides a smooth, immediate in-page purchase experience. Fans can sign up, enter their credit card, and download music without ever leaving the page they discovered your music on. We think the speed and convenience of our service will spur music sales.
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LOL people actually do this?!?
 
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This was emailed to me yesterday and I wanted to post it up to get others opinions on the subject.

I have read many posts about the negatives of MySpace. I have also come across many articles claiming MySpace to be "dead" compared to the growth of Facebook. In one recent article, Newscorp, the owners of MySpace, claimed to be making some changes in the coming future to regain some lost traffic. It appeared to me that the direction they were going to move in was to cater more to the entertainment industry.

I`m curious to get the feelings about this acquisition, to see if anyone thinks this could be a beneficial move or not, and if anyone has started using Facebook over MySpace to promote their music, would you see this as a move in the right direction to regain your promotional traffic.

Not to be left out is the consumer. For those of you who do not create music, would you start using MySpace more if/when these changes take affect.
 
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i dont see facebook as a good way to promote music, i have been even trying to promote some other stuff on there and dont usually get a response.

twitter and myspace seem to be more effective. but i dont use twitter.

myspace just seems to be changing their strategy in the way they use business. they tried to replicate some of the things facebook has and its been nice, but i dont think they want to be in the copy cat role.

~k.
 
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kayvee said:
i dont see facebook as a good way to promote music, i have been even trying to promote some other stuff on there and dont usually get a response.

twitter and myspace seem to be more effective. but i dont use twitter.

myspace just seems to be changing their strategy in the way they use business. they tried to replicate some of the things facebook has and its been nice, but i dont think they want to be in the copy cat role.

~k.
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I know they don`t want to be labeled as a copy-cat. That`s why I think they made a move like this. I`m interested to see what other new changes they come up with in this ever changing platform of musical distribution. I am concerned about what "special interests" they may cater to in these upcoming moves, and time will only tell, but if they focus on the expanding market of indie music, the moves could be a major stock changer.

I know there are artists on Facebook, but I personally view that site as a gathering of friends and family to keep in touch.

I know Twitter is the "new in thing", but so were bell-bottoms at one point in history, too. (Not to mention MC Hammer pants and a bunch of other retarded trends) But another recent report showed that the 'average' twitter user only used their accounts for 30 days. For business users like myself, that`s not a sign of long term stability, so thus far, I`m not on that bandwagon.
 
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nonfiCKtion said:
THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS TO GUYS IS, WHICH SITE IS EASIER TO GET PUSSU FROM?
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If that`s the case, then the game is missin in they pimpin.

If they need a website to get pussu, then hit craigslist. They must be tricks anyway.

A real pimp will have a bitch break bread over the net without ever having to meet her.
 
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CNI said:
If that`s the case, then the game is missin in they pimpin.

If they need a website to get pussu, then hit craigslist. They must be tricks anyway.

A real pimp will have a bitch break bread over the net without ever having to meet her.
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Lol u talkin bouth 3/4ths of siccness.
 
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