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

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. - Bryan Landers

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

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

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. - nate beaty

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. - Bryan Landers

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. - nate beaty