At the same time, here’s a post from Australia’s Sunday Morning Herald, where a Myspace insider admits defeat to Facebook. http://business.smh.com.au/business/facebook-tipped-to-outshine-myspace-20090211-84qt.html

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I think from a “band-to-fan” perspective, facebook will definitely come out as a clear winner – and I say this from a technology point of view. Myspace architecture is horrendously built – and their inability to mirror Facebook’s constant redesigns and functionality improvements is certainly due to this.
The event-management functionality in Facebook with its the ability to inform your friends and to get them to “sign up” for your gigs is where facebook will definitly win – again from a “band-to-fan” perspective.

However Facebook is nowhere near taking the “band-to-band” lead that Myspace has (at least in the indie circles), and I don’t know if that will ever change. They can cut deals with all the majors and start to penetrate that market – but that won’t do anything for them in the eyes of the indie market – and it’s well known that this is the market that made Myspace in the first place.

By the way, it’s plugin (one word) and strap on.