FWIW…According to Facebook, 100 artists have already set-up up profiles These types of economies of scales deals are usually pretty good for everyone’s bottom line. Hopefully Apple can slang some more iTunes and Facebook can keep people from defecting. Update: Looks like Myspace is building a iPhone Native app with the SDK so the lines are a bit blurry. Meh.
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