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I keep hearing mentions of myspace.com, so I went to see what it actually is.

On the main page, there is a link to Learn More, leading to "Step 1: Create your FREE profile". There, my choices seemed to be Next or Sign Up. Since I didn't want to sign up but did want to learn more, I clicked Next to go to page 2.

Here is what I learned on page 2: (in the familiar formatting of the standard MSIE error pages, even though I used a better browser)

The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

Please try the following:

• Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your browser is spelled and formatted correctly.
• If you reached this page by clicking a link, contact the Web site administrator to alert them that the link is incorrectly formatted.
• Click the Back button to try another link.

Technical Information (for support personnel)

• Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 404.
• Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Web Site Setup, Common Administrative Tasks, and About Custom Error Messages.

I keep hearing mentions of myspace.com, so I went to see what it actually is.

On the main page, there is a link to Learn More, leading to "Step 1: Create your FREE profile". There, my choices seemed to be Next or Sign Up. Since I didn't want to sign up but did want to learn more, I clicked Next to go to page 2.

Here is what I learned on page 2: (in the familiar formatting of the standard MSIE error pages, even though I used a better browser)

The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

Please try the following:

• Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your browser is spelled and formatted correctly.
• If you reached this page by clicking a link, contact the Web site administrator to alert them that the link is incorrectly formatted.
• Click the Back button to try another link.

Technical Information (for support personnel)

• Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 404.
• Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Web Site Setup, Common Administrative Tasks, and About Custom Error Messages.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=us er.viewprofile&friendid=34308508

MySpace is an apparently successful implementation of the concept that "anyone can have a useful web site without much work."

TruGeeks may prefer to buy (actually "rent") a domain name, rent space somewhere, AND maintaine the site using the technology du jour, but for a great many people, myspace does what they need without their having to think too hard about it, or to pay for it.

The question I still have is whether myspace URLs connote poorly, relative to unique-domain URLs, in the same way that AOL or hotmail addresses connote poorly, compared to unique-domain URLs do. In case this is unclear, let me offer an example. I think most people will agree that zzxyz@aol.com connotes something a little less classy than zzxyz@zzxyz.com. The question is, will myspace have sufficient acceptance that a URL such as http://www.myspace.com/rewinn will be an acceptable substitute for something like http://rewinn.com?

http://www.myspace.com/alex_infowarrior http://www.infowars.com/articles/science/myspace_t rojan_horse_of_internet_censorship.htm

why wouldn't it be!

  Earls myspace page; http://myspace.com/earl_spinkter
 

This is true. Education is definately the key.

There is a high level of fear-mongering going on in the media. I have users come to me asking, "Should I block my child from Myspace? A reporter on the news last night said my kid is in grave danger using Myspace. Is he right?"

The problem with getting your technical info from *insert popular news show here* is they are rarely getting their info from real net savvy people. Add to that, fear makes good ratings. There is a risk of children seeing objectionable content. The truth is there is far more objectionable stuff on good old porn sites than there ever will be on Myspace or Blogger. I have both Blogger and Myspace accounts. I also have a six year old that I am preparing to enter the realm of the net. We have to teach kids that it is never OK to give out their real name, address, or phone number online to someone they have never met in real life. Parents, bookmark their blog and monitor their internet habits. You wouldn't let a child roam the streets without some guidance. Do the same for the internet.

At the same time, learn what these sites really are. They are tools for global communication with the possibility to elighten, expand horizons, or just blow a few hours reading funny stories. Children will find their way into the Blogsphere with or without help. If parents can just get their info from solid sources and pass it on to thier children we can make the Blogsphere safe and possibly educational.

Who am I kidding...Bloggers posting something educational...am I out of my mind...

You don't need a research paper to tell you where the traffic is going.

Check out Alexa's Society Category. It's rife with the named blogging machines and even Slashdot!

All the report provides is the sheer visiting numbers and the rate of increase over the past year. And give proof that Tom over at MySpace is laughing all the way to the bank. You may call me a karma whore but that man has 68475709 friends!

like OMG!! I made an OMG Ponies glitter sign for my MySpace page. Wont gross old Mr Murdoch be happy. www.glitteryourway.com

The biggest problem facing independent distribution is the signal-to-noise ratio. It's easy enough these days to make a movie, CD, app, or any other sort of media and distribute it -- and people are doing that nonstop. On any college campus, there are more artistic events than crowds to attend them. The problem is sorting out the good stuff and delivering it to passive consumers.

Old Media established itself performing that service. Now, it's becoming clear that we don't really need them to do it for us, with mainstream music and Hollywood blockbusters becoming ever more WTF-ish and handy Web apps making the task of finding high-quality independent stuff ever easier. I don't think consumers a whole see these copyrights as being anywhere near as valuable as the corporate owners do. Remember that Netscape used to sell for $40 [didn't check fact at all], videotapes used to sell for aroun $99, and a CD with one good song would sell for $20 (as opposed to $0.99 on iTunes). I'm suggesting that a media copyright isn't a perfect monopoly: As competitive, free and independent media proliferates, the value of a media copyright approaches zero.

Steve Wozniak, the (co)founder of Apple Computers, once remarked that he thought every one would write the software he or she needed, and people would be free of the big software companies forever! While many quality open source applications are available, there are still many software niches where open source alternatives are either nonexistent or lacking compared to a commercial alternative.

It gets better every year. I've found OOo even more effective than MS Office, at a company where everyone else is using MS Office. That's nuts.

When desktop publishing software became affordable, some analysts predicted that every person could have their own magazine; this is not the case.

Note the following:

• Blogger
• Livejournal
• Myspace
• Purevolume
• MP3.com [RIP]
• CurrentTV
• How are you unable to find pr0n online?

Yes, the analysts were wrong: Everyone actually has several of their own magazines now. The problem is that media isn't worth what it used be. So media companies struggle to hold onto the most valuable things they have, while consumers see less and less importance in any single item.

This is poor, even for the NYT - a shameless puff piece trotted out by someone presumably in Bill G's pocket. It helps to deflect attention hitherto focused on the Vista delay announcement. "Oh, poor Microsoft," we cry. "How they have suffered to make Windows so very backward compatible. This must be the reason for the delay." And so it continues ad nauseam.

Rubbish. Utter rubbish. As numerous people have attested in this disucssion, it is often necessary to retain Windows 9x boxen in order to ensure compatibility with a particular piece of software on which one has to depend. And that ignores the innumerable hiccups encountered in the switch from DOS/Windows 3.x to Windows 95. It was ten years ago, now, so I will grant that some may have forgotten (or, at a guess, given the profusion of Myspace-era teens on Slashdot these days, they were not around to even remember), but a lot broke in that switch. At that age, my particular peeve was games, although the experienced - among which I like to include myself - were generally able to continue wrestling with fancy memory configurations in order to get such software to run. Still, it certainly wasn't easy, by any means.

The switch to the NT kernel has brought even more difficulties, many of them insurmountable. If you still have a piece of DOS software that NT won't run, there is no MS-DOS mode to restart in; the command prompt is sufficient for some but not all requirements. Certainly anyone who still wants to crack out an old DOS game under Windows XP is totally fucked, although one might like to remind them that it is time to move on...

Still, all of this would be as naught if it were not for the perpetual insistence on attributing the resplendent brilliance of Apple's Mac OS X to its willingness to shirk a supposed responsibility for backwards compatibility, the idea being that Windows sucks because it has excellent backwards compatibility. I have never understood this argument.

Probably because it is bunk. Among a diverse array of boxen at home - running, I might add, DOS, Linux, OpenBSD and Windows - I run Mac OS X 10.4 on a PowerBook G4. I am not about to indulge in a lengthy diatribe about the myriad ways in which Mac OS X is superior to Windows (or Linux, or...), because that has been ably done already, but I feel a short note on backwards compatibility is in order, seeing as it is that which is under attack.

Mac OS X has excellent backwards compatibility. I would argue in fact that from a user's perspective it is in some ways better than, say, that of Windows XP. It is beyond doubt that from a technical perspective, Mac OS X's backwards compatibility is superior to that of Windows XP. Consider why:

A quick perusal of various of the abandonware sites will render unto you a very plethora of old software for your DOS PC or Mac box. The difference is that you'll need an emulator to run the for-DOS stuff. Most of the time, anyway. On Mac OS X, assuming the Classic environment is installed (and I grant that it no longer is by default, but it is supplied on the Install DVD), you just double click the icon and within, say, a minute, you are playing a way on a classic version of Monkey Island from the early 90s. Maybe earlier. Oh, and with sound. Or perhaps the first version of Microsoft Word floats your boat. I have an old Japanese version of Microsoft Office on here which has proved indispensible on more than one occasion.

What is impressive is that some of this software is 20 years old and still works. Not only was it written for a totally different operating system, but it was written for a totally different chip architecture too. It integrates well too. An icon for a Mac OS 9 (or earlier) application can simply be placed in the Dock like any other application, and it runs - with menu bar and everything - just as it would in Mac OS 9. Whatever you may make of Windows or the Mac, that kind of compatibility is amazing

It's not even just education-related services... Anything that services the high school and college age crowd is going to get a renewable audience (thus able to include MySpace, and why it is so successful). http://www.student-manager.com/, http://www.facebook.com/, http://www.myspace.com/, http://www.blackboard.com/ all have one thing in common: They service the high school to college age crowd.

A quick visit over to netcraft shows that they use Windows 2003 for their app servers. Although most of the site is built using Cold Fusion, I did find this link for their browse capability.

http://browseusers.myspace.com/browse/browse.aspx? &MyToken=2d8ec518-6e53-4dc1-a3ff-9b0656788162

Thus, they are also using .NET

how else could people like this come out of the closet?

The one site in particular that sticks out in my mind has having particularly bad design is MySpace. Total information overload, poor organization of content, and horrible horrible backend code (servers are slow as molasses, and my sessions are frequently expired inexplicably).

I understand that it's a 'community' site, but I honestly don't feel a part of that at all. It's difficult to build a huge online community unless users can selectively segregate themselves into groups. This is part of the reason why Facebook and Flickr are both extremely successful.

Granted, there are ugly sites with truly great content that balances out the fact that the site's rather ugly. Likewise, there are a host of very pretty sites that are lacking in the content department.

Although I used to consider myself more of an content guy and the type of guy who uses the command line for most tasks, I find myself gravitating toward sites that although they may not offer as many features, are easier to use, and are visually appealing. Flickr is probably the best example of this. With CSS, there is no excuse to have a poorly designed site. CSS makes it ridiculously easy to propogate an attractive design across your entire site. If you already know basic HTML, you can pick up all the CSS you need to know in a few days. Likewise, CSS also means people can finally stop using Photoshop as a design tool.

With CSS, formerly ugly sites can make themselves pretty with very little effort. Slashdot went to great lengths with their stylesheet to make sure they preserved the old ugly layout.

And good Lord! Have you been to her MySpace site? Take a look at some of those pictures of he flipping the camera off or "partying hardy". He site probably only "sealed the deal" on a decision already made 5 minute into the interview.

http://www.myspace.com/comeoncolleen

Do a find for "weed" and judge for yourself...

could it be the one at the top of her profile telling visitors to her profile to F*ck off?

http://www.myspace.com/comeoncolleen

Quit whining about being blacklisted and take down the juvenile profile - you're 27 now, not 16. I wouldn't hire somebody for a professional position with a webpage like that either...

here is her myspace profile. There's a pic of her munching pills (which are supposed to vitamin C) that she posted, so that one might be what turned employers off.

If her employers checked her myspace, they most certainly would have not hired her.

Comments from her myspace:
obviously (FTA): "hi, i'm colleen kluttz and i just smoked the. best. weed. everrrrrrr..."
"Best host ever! I like the part when you shake your boobies."
"pot brownies, colleen! POT BROWNIES!!!"
"if you lived here, i would have to quit my job and become a full time hang over nurse."
"i'd like to report that i just opened my purse at work and found a can of PBR inside. livin' large!!!" - PBR being Paps Blue Ribbon beer by the way
"chris's eyes = patriotic. stoned white and blue. come visit."


And the profile picture she picked herself that has her giving the finger to a camera doesn't help either.

If the incident in question (someone posted a pic of her looking high) was isolated, an employer might overlook it. But these comments suggest a heavy drinker/pot smoker. I personally don't care if someone drinks/smokes weed while not on the job, but these things in conjunction with the attitude that is expressed on her myspace is something more.

Yup, there it is (scroll down).
http://www.myspace.com/comeoncolleen

At our bands site http://www.myspace.com/timflanaryband we market an idea, not just music. We feel that people want to buy something that they can hold in their hands. I believe our marketing techniques are working. Sure there are plenty out for instant gratification. Whenever I'm really into a band I want their CD.

I don't know if I want details of my personal consumption details made public - I don't want even more adverts for things which aren't quite what I'm interested in - but if this includes things like downloads from MySpace, it might bring more music to the attention of the record labels as something worth investing in, which would be good in my opinion. I'm not sure if it would make the record labels' jobs in selecting who to sign easier due to being able to do a lot of it online or harder due to the increased number of artists available

If cd's are preferred then cd's might have a higher margin than the downloads. Then it makes us wonder why cd's cost so much in the first place.

CD's are still preffered by not only the labels but more importantly by the artists as well. For two main reasons: First, there is still a desire to have a tangible "object" to sell. Something that can be held with content exclusive to the packaging. Booklets, liner notes, artwork etc. These objects have a perviceved longevity. A CD or LP still has a easily assigned "value" to it because it physically takes up something more than simply ones and zeros. The creation of music is really about leaving some little piece of yourself behind for future generations to discover and enjoy. And a tangible object like a LP, Analog Tape or CD is the prefferred method of that archive.

Seccond is the "bundle". Since The Beatle's "Rubber Soul" recording artists work to put together a collection of songs or pieces to satisfy the need to present a more complete picture of who they are and what they are about For many musicians a digitally released single simply doesn't present enough information to the listener. The "album" will always be present in some tangible form. It may be CD, LP, DVD or what ever new package technology comes up with. Artists and a significant percentage of music consumers will still want the "bundle". The single is simply a "loss leader" for the album. Single only releases will remain the exception rather than become the rule.

My biggest fear as a musician is that the day will come when ALL music is simply a stream of random songs piped into your ear with no tactile interaction, visual queing or control. (The Big Brother Muzak from hell...satellite radio)

The other day I bought Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits LP at a thrift shop for a dollar. The album was a second pressing from 1969 release and had the original poster and album sleeve. My daughter wanted the poster and thinks that it is so cool that things were "so big" then. At 15 she wants her own turntable and stereo in addition to the required iPod so she can buy "really cool" records. She already has made her own CDs and sold them to her friends. http://www.myspace.com/notpicturedhereyo

That made me feel good for the future for recording artists. There will always be the desire by the listener to have control, choice and a object to hold and read while the music plays. And the artists will always want to present a collection of music on some physical media with a extended vision of what the music is about.

It is difficult for non-musicians to understand what it is like to first hold their finished CD. Be it a home made burned and ink jet printed version or a commerically produced, printed and shrinkwrapped bar coded one. It is the culmination of countless hours of practice, writing, recording, mixing and working with creative professionals to present a image of the music in the form of the graphic design and photograghy. A Mp3 is simply a minor step in much bigger creative process.

http://soul-amp.com/

That it sounds to me more like MySpace

The fact that English speaking singers based anywhere in the world can take advantage of this kind of service or publicity, makes it similarly accesible to any other language speakers. Take for example this guy http://myspace.com/antonioguzman Latin, Spanish singer, just beginning his way in the music business, will he also be able to reach as many people as Sandi Thom? Just time can tell.

http://www.myspace.com/johnbstalkingyouonmyspace

I thought this was great for this topic, have a laugh.

The song sums up the truth about myspace...

Comedian Demetri Martin did a hilarious exposé on MySpace on The Daily Show recently, which tends to reflect some of this backlash.

(Google video had it for awhile, but it's disappeared from there. Thank you, YouTube!)

http://www.myspace.com/brandymalone
She works in Nashville radio

While there are some that believe that language cannot be offensive the majority of the population does find some language to be offensive. Otherwise we wouldn't have any restrictions on what can be aired on TV and movies couldn't carry an R rating due to language. I don't think its the syllables that are the problem. It's the strong emotions that are attached to them. If someone needs to resort to using words for their shock value that makes me question the validity of their argument.

Most of the sites she would visit are viewable only by people on their friends list. Others have cancelled or been deleted. Here's a few examples of pages that were blocked. The content of each page seems to change frequently so you never know what will be on them.

Here's one and another and another and another here's a winner or how about this one. All of these are from the filter's log files from October and November of last year for my 14 year old daughter.

We did sit down and talk to her about the excessive amount of time she was wasting on myspace before I blocked it. The problem was that she would claim to be doing her homework on the computer but actually be on myspace. Her grades went from As and Bs to Ds and Fs.

The one that finally led me to block it completely was when she wouldn't go to an activity with the rest of the family because she had too much homework but five minutes after we left she was on myspace for about three hours while we were gone.

In no way did I lie to her. I shut it down and when she asked about it I explained why.

I run my own DNS server at home because I do web development at home and I've got 8 computers that I don't feel like updating individually.

While there are some that believe that language cannot be offensive the majority of the population does find some language to be offensive. Otherwise we wouldn't have any restrictions on what can be aired on TV and movies couldn't carry an R rating due to language. I don't think its the syllables that are the problem. It's the strong emotions that are attached to them. If someone needs to resort to using words for their shock value that makes me question the validity of their argument.

Most of the sites she would visit are viewable only by people on their friends list. Others have cancelled or been deleted. Here's a few examples of pages that were blocked. The content of each page seems to change frequently so you never know what will be on them.

Here's one and another and another and another here's a winner or how about this one. All of these are from the filter's log files from October and November of last year for my 14 year old daughter.

We did sit down and talk to her about the excessive amount of time she was wasting on myspace before I blocked it. The problem was that she would claim to be doing her homework on the computer but actually be on myspace. Her grades went from As and Bs to Ds and Fs.

The one that finally led me to block it completely was when she wouldn't go to an activity with the rest of the family because she had too much homework but five minutes after we left she was on myspace for about three hours while we were gone.

In no way did I lie to her. I shut it down and when she asked about it I explained why.

I run my own DNS server at home because I do web development at home and I've got 8 computers that I don't feel like updating individually.

While there are some that believe that language cannot be offensive the majority of the population does find some language to be offensive. Otherwise we wouldn't have any restrictions on what can be aired on TV and movies couldn't carry an R rating due to language. I don't think its the syllables that are the problem. It's the strong emotions that are attached to them. If someone needs to resort to using words for their shock value that makes me question the validity of their argument.

Most of the sites she would visit are viewable only by people on their friends list. Others have cancelled or been deleted. Here's a few examples of pages that were blocked. The content of each page seems to change frequently so you never know what will be on them.

Here's one and another and another and another here's a winner or how about this one. All of these are from the filter's log files from October and November of last year for my 14 year old daughter.

We did sit down and talk to her about the excessive amount of time she was wasting on myspace before I blocked it. The problem was that she would claim to be doing her homework on the computer but actually be on myspace. Her grades went from As and Bs to Ds and Fs.

The one that finally led me to block it completely was when she wouldn't go to an activity with the rest of the family because she had too much homework but five minutes after we left she was on myspace for about three hours while we were gone.

In no way did I lie to her. I shut it down and when she asked about it I explained why.

I run my own DNS server at home because I do web development at home and I've got 8 computers that I don't feel like updating individually.

While there are some that believe that language cannot be offensive the majority of the population does find some language to be offensive. Otherwise we wouldn't have any restrictions on what can be aired on TV and movies couldn't carry an R rating due to language. I don't think its the syllables that are the problem. It's the strong emotions that are attached to them. If someone needs to resort to using words for their shock value that makes me question the validity of their argument.

Most of the sites she would visit are viewable only by people on their friends list. Others have cancelled or been deleted. Here's a few examples of pages that were blocked. The content of each page seems to change frequently so you never know what will be on them.

Here's one and another and another and another here's a winner or how about this one. All of these are from the filter's log files from October and November of last year for my 14 year old daughter.

We did sit down and talk to her about the excessive amount of time she was wasting on myspace before I blocked it. The problem was that she would claim to be doing her homework on the computer but actually be on myspace. Her grades went from As and Bs to Ds and Fs.

The one that finally led me to block it completely was when she wouldn't go to an activity with the rest of the family because she had too much homework but five minutes after we left she was on myspace for about three hours while we were gone.

In no way did I lie to her. I shut it down and when she asked about it I explained why.

I run my own DNS server at home because I do web development at home and I've got 8 computers that I don't feel like updating individually.

While there are some that believe that language cannot be offensive the majority of the population does find some language to be offensive. Otherwise we wouldn't have any restrictions on what can be aired on TV and movies couldn't carry an R rating due to language. I don't think its the syllables that are the problem. It's the strong emotions that are attached to them. If someone needs to resort to using words for their shock value that makes me question the validity of their argument.

Most of the sites she would visit are viewable only by people on their friends list. Others have cancelled or been deleted. Here's a few examples of pages that were blocked. The content of each page seems to change frequently so you never know what will be on them.

Here's one and another and another and another here's a winner or how about this one. All of these are from the filter's log files from October and November of last year for my 14 year old daughter.

We did sit down and talk to her about the excessive amount of time she was wasting on myspace before I blocked it. The problem was that she would claim to be doing her homework on the computer but actually be on myspace. Her grades went from As and Bs to Ds and Fs.

The one that finally led me to block it completely was when she wouldn't go to an activity with the rest of the family because she had too much homework but five minutes after we left she was on myspace for about three hours while we were gone.

In no way did I lie to her. I shut it down and when she asked about it I explained why.

I run my own DNS server at home because I do web development at home and I've got 8 computers that I don't feel like updating individually.

While there are some that believe that language cannot be offensive the majority of the population does find some language to be offensive. Otherwise we wouldn't have any restrictions on what can be aired on TV and movies couldn't carry an R rating due to language. I don't think its the syllables that are the problem. It's the strong emotions that are attached to them. If someone needs to resort to using words for their shock value that makes me question the validity of their argument.

Most of the sites she would visit are viewable only by people on their friends list. Others have cancelled or been deleted. Here's a few examples of pages that were blocked. The content of each page seems to change frequently so you never know what will be on them.

Here's one and another and another and another here's a winner or how about this one. All of these are from the filter's log files from October and November of last year for my 14 year old daughter.

We did sit down and talk to her about the excessive amount of time she was wasting on myspace before I blocked it. The problem was that she would claim to be doing her homework on the computer but actually be on myspace. Her grades went from As and Bs to Ds and Fs.

The one that finally led me to block it completely was when she wouldn't go to an activity with the rest of the family because she had too much homework but five minutes after we left she was on myspace for about three hours while we were gone.

In no way did I lie to her. I shut it down and when she asked about it I explained why.

I run my own DNS server at home because I do web development at home and I've got 8 computers that I don't feel like updating individually.

Yup. Humor. I'm a very happy 33 YO! http://www.myspace.com/benfun

Best of luck,

Apropos nothing, my myspace URL is http://www.myspace.com/is_the_new_geocities.

Well, I thought it was clever at the time. At the time I didn't realize I wasn't the only one making the association, though I probably heard it from somebody else.

But not because of paedophiles and whatnot. If you aren't supervising your kids when they're not old enough to know better, it's your fault. </caps>

By the way: yes, I do have a Myspace page. Apparently, I'm not the first person to create a Myspace profile just to tell Myspace lusers how much I hate them. :P

maybe Some people want to be found by sexual predators

Looks like he already is:

http://www.myspace.com/safetyczar

While it may seem silly, the dangers explained in the article are reality. Myspace has 56 million users. With all of the personal information I have seen on profiles, it is only expectable that it is misused someday.

A few months ago, a friend of a student at my school experienced a horrible ordeal. Her best friend was murdered and raped by an assaulter who had obtained her personal information from her "Facebook" (another popular--mainly among college students--online community service).

Either way, I find it absurd how much people disclose on their profiles. I won't post any links, but people have their addresses, home phone numbers, and--the perfect appetizer for an attacker--half-dressed pictures. I don't know about you, but that smells like trouble to me.

Look at me!
http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=RateIm age.Rate&imageID=478217781

Look at me!
http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=RateIm age.Rate&imageID=478217781

Web2.0 and tagging will evetually dominate the internet searching, here is the ultimate list: website: http://del.icio.us/ photo: http://flickr.com/ news: http://digg.com/ locations: http://www.rrove.com/ video: http://youtube.com/ music: http://myspace.com/ Put them together... how does this compare to what google is heading ...

If you're going to hack myspace, please start here.
And can you disable the tag while you're at it?
Thanks,
Nathan

The whole idea of there being a music business in the first place is a fraud. Its almost like they put the words "music" + "business" together, and for it to exist. Something like "easter" + "bunny" and now we have a Easter Bunny somewhere out there. There is no music business. Period.

There is no money to be made in the so called "music business". The only possible way is to sue people.

Anyone who has made music, an Indie band or whatever, knows its impossiblly hard to sell any of it. Forget it. You just can't do it. Maybe once upon a time, when a record was a new thing (1920's?) and it was a new technology, and people were building up a collection. Now, those days are long ancient history. There is no music business. Only the "illusion" of a music business, that bands unwittingly try to perpetuate and create, to make it look like they are making any money at all and are therefore successful and popular. Chyeah.

Its incredibly hard to even get people to download your tracks even when they are free and great stuff. I've been running Limewire straight as an Ultrapeer for days now, with 8 of my tracks up, 60 other peers connected, and not a single person has downloaded any of my tracks. The same patethic statistics go for Myspace as well, many people will come across and play them as streaming format, and move on, but maybe in a year or so and thousands of profile views one of my tracks has been downloaded once or twice...

I considered various models for my own music, the best sounding one to give the music away for free, since you can't sell it anyway there is so much competition out there, and the models have changed... you can not sell music, period. So instead I was going to sell band tshirts, and stickers and "identity" merchandise through a cafepress.com store for people to identify with the music instead, and give the music away for free. Digital content wants to be free so let it.

But even selling merchandise is patetic, after looking at it, I'd be lucky if I sold 5 tshirts. The numbers just arent there.

Someone did a breakdown on cdbaby.com sales per artist, and came out that on average every artist made about $70 in sales (half goes to cdbaby), $35 in income off all their music. Thats an incredible amount of labor and creativity, with piss poor zilch for return.

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The 38 million subscribers to MySpace

38 Million subscribers? Last I checked, Tom had 47.8 Million friends and counting... and that's just the people who like Tom.

myspace *is* a free service, barring a subscription. if they want to limit what people say while they're providing it to them without cost, then that's their option to do. when was the last time you heard a huge uproar over a site censoring out curse words? (yes, i know it is a bit different when it could be a competitor) if you don't like it, leave. it's that simple. you aren't out of money, you don't owe someone money, just leave. there are plenty of other social networking hubs around.

above everything else, read 5 in the terms & conditions. you agreed to let them do that when you signed up.

There was a myspace user who was using an utterly huge image of mine (taken with a Kodak Pro14N 14 megapixel camera) as his background. It was a significant hit on my bandwidth, so I put the following in my .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://.myspace.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://xcski.com/~ptomblin/leech.png [R,L]

It made his page utterly unreadable, but I guess he and his friends still had the old picture in their caches because it took him about 6 months to notice and change it.

My daughter has a myspace account because her friends at college have them (and facebook as well), so she contacted this loser and made some vague remark about his "interesting" background. He didn't get it - he said something about how he googled for kayaking pictures and found this one and liked it.