MySpace + Facebook = New Hotness 1
hmm… what do you get when you take the biggest place on the interweb for connecting people and sharing activity with the best place for discovering new music content and such? well that is what a Facebook and MySpace plan on doing.
it seemed that major media companies rarely ever do large partnerships with equals or companies they consider “competitors”. frienemy “coopertition” is nothing new but more often than not it is usually nominal and on the surface only. but with MySpace and Facebook negotiating terms to share content: finally a partnership that really makes sense.
why reinvent the wheel when you can partner with a place that already has 4 wheel drive? Bringing MySpace content to Facebook is a no brainer for FB especially with MySpace’s new focus on the MySpace Music as a platform for discovery and artist tools. and for MySpace it is the shift (or a realization of their denial) from trying to compete to be the largest online community to embracing what they do best.
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