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YouTube's Nikhil Chandhok, Tumblr's David Karp, Digg's Kevin Rose, Mashable's Pete Cashmore, actor/recording artist Jared Leto, and CNN anchor Rick Sanchez participate in the Social Media Rock Stars Summit on Jan. 29 at the GRAMMY Museum at L.A. Live
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I attended the Summit.
It is interesting to note that when MySpace started, for the first several years, the site was not selling music. It was solely a social networking site. However, a few years later, when it became apparent that so many people that have MySpace pages are music fans, MySpace then expanded and began to incorporate promoting and selling music. That is an interesting point. Selling and promoting music were not part of the orginal functions of MySpace, but rather, MySpace evolved into it by way of a natural course, because of the interests of its registered users. In essence, the changing or addtional functions offered on MySpace were driven by the people who use the site.
I wrote this article about some of the social networking The Recording Academy is doing for the Grammy Awards.
The Summit was a worthwhile event, and I hope that it becomes an annual tradition as internet technology continues to grow and evolve. It is quite interesting to see the Grammys evolve with it.