I’m not faulting them for making some fat cash. Hell, more power to them. The thing I’m upset about is their blissful ignorance of what CBS truly wants with the site. I think the creators are fooling themselves in believing CBS is going to pour truck loads of money into a site without demanding an almost immediate return.

It seems as the social websites that run the gamut from music to geekdom (which are sometimes one and the same) are being bought up as information highway bulletin boards. However, one has to ask if this is selling out? Perhaps it was the sole intention for the creators of MySpace and LastFm to sell their product for a huge profit. Because it’s come to fruition doesn’t mean they’ve sold out – just that they’ve sold. Perhaps we look at it as “selling out” because we do subscribe to that ethic. Perhaps, without realizing it, we’re projecting it upon the sites we belong to. Now, it would be a different story if these sites declared their indie-ness and then sold out to the likes of CBS or Fox or whomever….