Now, excuse me while I toss mine. The Girl Scouts of America built a site on MySpace to SELL COOKIES. Fine. Just don't let the scouts themselves anywhere near the site.
(props to Ad Rants)
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As an Artist and Technologist that is socially responsible I have created two social networking service (www.adelph.us www.darmik.com) to challenge myspace . We should not live in a world that has socially responsible people,(especially artist) giving their content to a giant multi media conglomerate like "News Corp". How can we as socially responsible individuals give any content to a company and a "SOCIAL" network that does not care about any of the ideas that we hold so dearly ? When we choose to give our content to these types of companies we only help to make them stronger and to fill their pockets with money that will never flow back into our communities or to causes that we are interested in helping. We all know that the choice to use Myspace is not one that is made because the technology is the best. It is one that is made because Myspace is owned by a large Media conglomerate that has the ability to keep all eyes and ear focused on its properties and away from the fact that they make millions of dollars off of content that is given to them for free while giving nothing back to the content owners or to socially responsible causes.
adelph.us has launched a socially responsiblesocial network at
www.adelph.us
Artist and Members can create profiles that allow adelph.us
members to find their muisc and products.
Artist and members that have uploaded their products and created stores on darmik.com can easily add their stores to their www.adelph.us profile page. This will
allow members of the ww.adelph.us to purchase products from members profile pages.
The store that is created on www.darmik.com can also be easily integrated into any website.
Darmik also gives artist the ability to sell cd's in their stores as well as
tracks.
With the permission of the content owner, other adelph.us can sell and redistribute products on their
adelph.us profile pages as well as their blogs.
Members keep 90% of the revenue from the sell of any tracks or products
Members that are part of the www.adelph.us network and www.
Darmik.com can donate a portion of their sales revenue to Darmik.com registered non
profits.
The adelph.us service also includes an online green computing open office
productivity suite (Lightapp) that is fully compatible with currently
desktop applications.
adelph.us and Darmik.com always donate a portion of
their revenue to charity.
The Girl Scouts ARE NOT selling cookies on MySpace. They have set up a MySpace page to raise awareness about the current cookie season and drive traffic to GirlScoutCookies.org where folks can connect with councils and purchase cookies in their community. The MySpace page targets cookie buyers (adults), not cookies sellers (girls).
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