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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Mashable - The Social Media Guide - Latest Comments in MySpace Signs Deal With Indie Label IODA</title><link>http://mashable.disqus.com/</link><description>Internet and Technology News - Mashable is the world’s largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Networking news. With more than 5 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific blog reviewing new Web sites and services, publishing breaking news on what’s new on the web.</description><atom:link href="https://mashable.disqus.com/thread_2070/latest.rss" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:25:48 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: MySpace Signs Deal With Indie Label IODA</title><link>http://mashable.com/2008/10/22/myspace-music-ioda/#comment-6023847</link><description>&lt;p&gt;This is a nice move by myspace; but it continues to follow their stale old act of creating large amounts of revenue on the backs of independent artist and their content.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;myspace is easily worth at least a billion, and where is the value coming from other than artist and memberscontent and activities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;How much ad revenue is myspace sharing with members that generate ad revenue for them ? Are they giving anything back to the community that has put them where they are ?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am technology consultant, and this summer I became so feed up with the share cropper mentality of sites like myspace that I decided to build an application that shares the wealth that is created with the community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At &lt;a href="http://adelph.us" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="adelph.us"&gt;adelph.us&lt;/a&gt; we believe that Artist should have the best tools available to connect with their fans and to distribute and sell their music. We think that artist should have an easy way to build a fan base and to allow their fans to also be rewarded for spreading the word and the music.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With &lt;a href="http://adelph.us" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="adelph.us"&gt;adelph.us&lt;/a&gt; the artist owns the content. With &lt;a href="http://adelph.us" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="adelph.us"&gt;adelph.us&lt;/a&gt; the artist controls the price. With &lt;a href="http://adelph.us" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="adelph.us"&gt;adelph.us&lt;/a&gt; the artist can generate interest as well as sells.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">william</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:25:48 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>