Slacker continues to impress with their innovation and foresight. This time from a social media perspective, Slacker has unveiled a MySpace widget allowing you to embed your own customized station onto your MySpace page.

Check it out by going to Slacker.com, create or listen to one of your stations (custom station or just a regular preset station works) and then go to "Station Options" and select "Share This Station."

There you'll see a "MySpace" button which gives you the code to embed onto your MySpace page. You get two options for MySpace players - one shows just the album art and player; the other gives additional channel details.

Of course, you're not limited to just MySpace. The code can be embedded pretty much anywhere on the web. I've embedded the Comedy channel right in this post (after the jump).

This is impressive on many different levels. First, it fulfills a need because it keeps your MySpace page fresh yet still personalized. MySpace, aside from having the most market share, has undoubtedly done a lot in terms of music discovery, and a customizable internet radio channel just makes sense. Second, from a viral marketing standpoint, it's brilliant. The Slacker Widget beats the heck out of what Pandora offers as a widget, and bests the likes of Sirius or XM who don't offer anything like this. Satellite Radio should probably reevaluate this strategy - even if with just a limited selection of channels - because the viral nature of having an embeddable widget may prove extremely valuable (more than the email addresses acquired from the 3-day trials).

Check out the Slacker MySpace Widget after the jump (RSS/Email readers will need to click through to view)...

SoundExchange and the major record labels have just reached an agreement with the large webcasting services over Internet Radio royalty rates, according to a report by Billboard.biz.

Under the agreement which extends to 2010, large commercial webcasters AOL, Live365, MTV, RealNetworks, Pandora and Yahoo! will not have to pay more than $50,000 per service as a per-station or per-channel minimum royalty to webcast sound recordings, according to a source close to the negotiations.

The deal was reached late today in New York during a confidential meeting between representatives from all the major labels and the large digital services, according to the source.

The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) decision earlier this year set no limit to the $500 per-channel or per-station minimum fee that services must pay to SoundExchange. A decision that caused a massive outcry in the community and many said was the death of Internet Radio.

No final agreement has been reached yet with small webcastersyet, but SoundExchange has offered to carry forward old rates through 2010.

[Billboard.biz]

One of the biggest drawbacks of Internet Radio is that it's hard to get it off your computer and used in everyday applications. This has been a big draw of devices like the Sonos which brings untethered access throughout the house.

But for those who just want a tabletop radio, there's now the Phoenix WiFi Radio by Com One. With it's built-in speakers, you can listen to Internet Radio wherever you have a WiFi connection.

There's absolutely no PC required, and the device works with both WEP (64 - 128 bits) and WPA encryption. It's not just for Internet Radio either, because with RSS support, you can listen to Podcasts as well.

It won't be too long before a whole generation defines "radio" as something completely different than what we know it as today. The same thing happened to the word "wireless" and it will happen again.

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Thanks Karl!

Sirius Satellite Radio and Sonos, Inc have partnered up to provide Sirius Internet Radio (SIR) to the Sonos Digital Music System.

This marks the first time that subscribers can listen to Sirius without the need of satellite radio hardware or a computer in the home.

The Sonos connects directly to Sirius Internet Radio, allowing you to listen to over 80 different channels (yes, including Howard Stern) in up to 32 rooms around the house. Sonos customers automatically receive a 30-day free trial of SIR, and the Sirius capabilities are provided through the v2.3 update of the Sonos System Software.

Check out the online demo here, or follow the jump for lots of additional photos...