nate beaty:

that sounds like a band that makes money and has some PR muscle! either that or they know a webgeek or are tech-savvy themselves. but you're right, getting yourself out there these days requires one foot in many services.

Bryan Landers:

Aha. Now this conversation is getting interesting. So, in answer to, "if you're a band, what else is there?" I have too long an answer, but the short version is: EVERYWHERE! I recently helped 2 musician friends with their own destination sites/hubs (artist_name_dot_com), each of which used no less than 5 other web services (Twitter, Flickr, ArtistData, Facebook, MySpace, Vimeo, YouTube...)! A huge part of your job in being an artist these days is self-promotion and leveraging these networks to gain attention, and to do that, no single destination is going to do the trick. Not even the ubiquitous MySpace. I predict an aggregated hub site + monster communications dashboard will become the strongest solutions.

nate beaty:

i said essentially the same thing to a friend the other day, his response: "if you're a band, what else is there?" muxtape.com came to mind, but he's right, it's come down to band pages and It's Too Painful To Migrate Elsewhere users.

esther:

W/ apologies to anyone who works for them: if you're using myspace, that's a fail =P

nate beaty:

myspace has long been my go-to for what NOT to do in UX.

Bryan Landers:

Yup, and 1 chance to pick a username?! Pity the person who makes a typo at this moment. Anytime you resort to this type of language and interaction in your messaging, it should be taken as an indication that your UX has gone crapola.

Micah Wittman:

Wow, if a javascript confirm() won't believe you, WHO WILL???