Many of us are simply yearning for the MySpace Music team to take the greatness they have (audience) and start building more functional, open and clean tools for band promotion and management within that structure. The potential is so obvious and so huge anyone even remotely connected with web and music can see it plainly. Why can’t MySpace?

yvynyl: More on ‘Quit MySpace Day’

My $.02:

Every band in the world (well, not every but still …) has a MySpace page with a universally recognized name space: myspace/[band name].

This is federated band identity across the web.  Also great user experience - I know what to type to find the “home page” of any band

Also, every MySpace band page has similar and consistent structured elements, all located on the same place in the page.  The music player is in the same place, as is the band picture, the web site address, the names of the band members, the influences, the record label, etc.  This is basically the wikipedia for bands.

The result is amazing Google juice (which is why MySpace band pages always appear at the top of search results).  Also great user experience - users know where to look, easy to navigate (even with all the noise on the pages).

To me, these are amazing core competencies and real assets.  Forget everything else.

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