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"There's a current trend of broadcasting data out to multiple sites, taking aggregated content and redistributing it throughout all the networks we're members of.  It's a great way to brand yourself, optimize search, keep up with all of your friends, and centralize the workload that goes into maintaining your online persona.\nFriendfeed, for example, acts as a hub for all the things you're saying and doing across the web.  And on the flip side of that coin, SixApart's BlogIt is a centralized tool that pushes a single blog post out to several places.  This trend has become quite established in the blogosphere, and is beginning to take off in other areas as well.\n\nThere are a number of areas with which this model can be applied, and as sites like Facebook and MySpace continue to \"open up\" for the sake of offering more perceived control to users, the easier it becomes for other areas to take a similar route to redistributing data.\nArtistData is doing this for musicians by creating a single point of input and pushing that content out across various sites like  MySpace, Last.fm, and purevolume. ArtistData will auto-import and export things like tour dates, status updates, and videos, similar to tools like TubeMogul.  Soon, ArtistData will also be updating blog posts, news, and other data points.  ArtistData will then give you stats on the work it's been doing, so you can see how many updates have been submitted across your supporting sites.\nI imagine some of the next steps for ArtistData could be to provide in depth analysis of the performance of certain redistributed items, as well as a personalized startpage that enables even more indirect action items for things like friend requests and messaging.  The potential for ArtistData to become its own marketing platform is also inherent as it bulks out many of its upcoming features as well.\nSomewhat towards this end, ArtistData has already begun to dig into the local market, with features for notifying local publications about your upcoming arrival, and giving you access to local venues for resources (equipment, technicians, etc.)."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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