Facebook rumoured to be ramping up music plans
The blogosphere has been buzzing this weekend following claims in the New York Post that Facebook is “plotting a possible push into the digital music business” in an effort to take on MySpace Music. That’s their comedy image montage by the way.
The report goes on to claim that the social network is in talks with Rhapsody, iMeem, iLike AND Lala over working more closely with one of them as Facebook’s outsourced music service supplier. While Facebook is apparently also talking to the major labels, it’s not planning to offer any equity in the company, unlike MySpace.
So is it true? The problem with the rumour is that iLike in particular is already pretty comprehensive as a third-party Facebook application, so what difference would any deal really make, other than promoting one music app at the expense of the others?
October 20th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Yet another face book/web 2.0 effort to raise the value of a company on the backs of members content.
Will the face book music service mimic the greed of the wonderful myspace plantation ?
Artist and content creators our fields are open for you cultivate. Work hard contribute all you can, and in the end we will give you not a dime of the value that you create.
I think its time that the “Community” turn the web 2.0 share cropper model on its head.
Demand something in exchange for your content. It has value; that is why myspace and Face Book have “Valuations”. Their Valuations are not based on their technology, it is based on member created content and actions.
At adelph.us we are trying to put the community first. Our way of doing things may not work; but we think that for the “Community” contributors it is worth the effort.