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MySpace Makes it to Top 10 Internet Sites
prostoalex writes "Nielsen//NetRatings Top 10 is a monthly rating of top 10 Internet destinations. Generally dominated by Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, AOL, eBay and similar major destinations, the list had a newcomer in March of this year. MySpace.com is 10th most visited Web site, losing to #9 Real.com only by 600,000 unique visits per month."
after the slashdot appearance of the article, MySpace.com is now #4.
Nothing for you to see here, please move along
How does a site no one can see make it into the Top 10?
(first post?)
And goatse.cx made it to number one. Congratulations Slashdot trolls everywhere!
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
Just goes to show, content and relationships will trump design everytime. MySpace is definite proof.
Jim http://www.runfatboy.net/ -- Exercise for the rest of us.
I mean, we all knew MySpace was headed for the top, as we all know Madonna is not really English, even if she now has an English fake accent. So, is this a case of reality being announced before the news get it?
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Why the hell is real.com so high?
Why would you want to go there? It's like a hole for sleazy salesmen pawning spyware.
I guess it's not MySpace anymore, but OurSpace...
Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?
Who goes to real.com?
What comes first, finding a teacher or becoming a student?
I just took this Nielson Net survey a few days ago (they sent me $15 cash!)
It is very long, but on some of the pages I noticed that sites like slashdot where not a choice to even select. On the page where myspace was a choice of sites you visit, livejournal was not! I'm not sure how well the "write-in" box at the bottom gets counted, but I really question the integrity of the whole thing.
I hadn't even heard of myspace.com until the stories about rent for sex, police stings that came out over the past several months.
You hear about the bad stuff (and teenage girls) and poof, it gets hits.
It could be worse, it could be Monday.
So Real's crappy phone-home player may send 100000000 pagehits to their site every month, but (I guess) people actually use MySpace, as retarded as it is. This is a meaningless statistic.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
why wouldn't it be!
Earls myspace page; http://myspace.com/earl_spinkter
People visit real.com?
...the internet dies just a little bit. The future if the internet grows bleek. Some people spend so much time whoring themselves out on MySpace, that's all they use the internet for. Still, they need that 6Mbps connection because some profiles try to load 200MB of videos, sounds, CSS, cursors, and animated GIFs all at the same time.
God save the interweb.
None, they'll just sit in the dark and cry.
http://www.myspace.com/alex_infowarrior http://www.infowars.com/articles/science/myspace_t rojan_horse_of_internet_censorship.htm
Losing my faith in /. but it turns out we're all united in our hatred of MySpace.
This guy is way out there
MySpace is the worst thing for business productivity since Solitaire. We blocked MySpace a few weeks ago because it accounted for literally 10-15% of our company's outbound web traffic - I'm talking about thousands and thousands of MySpace URIs visited per day, at a company of ~75 people.
...That there is no such thing as bad publicity.
Thanks you, Whackie Right and TV Newsers, for going all out to drive hits to myspace.com.
Can you badmouth my blog, now?
Retards.
Mmmmmm... Bold, yet refreshing!
but MySpace behaves as though it were coded by fucking retarded monkeys.
Britney Spears is lame...
And Survivor is lame...
And all reality TV is lame...
Christ, it seems that the masses really do have no taste.
Just because thinking humans think it sucks doesn't mean that the lemmings won't congregate there.
Did anyone notice the average time spent for AOL? It was double that of the next longest below it. I belive this is even more proof that AOL users are just plain slow.
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
But who ACTUALLY purposely goes to real.com.....or did their homepage get changed by their shit software.
The phrase "more better" is acceptable English. suck it grammar Nazis
The one that goes, "I believe the children are our future..."
Then it goes on to show the dumb photos that people post.
Its funny stuff... http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2713146
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?
--- Attorneys Assisting Citizen-Soldiers & Families -
I wonder what www.slashdot.org is? It has to be up there in the top 30 at least.
http://saveie6.com/
What about time-spent using a service?
In that case, how would World of Warcraft play into the rankings. Running one raid requires more time than I spend on myspace in three months. I just pop into myspace, check comments, post a few comments, and check-out.
And people are paying to play WoW. There are those that would pay to use myspace, but if they ever proposed that, the next free service would take off. I'm also concerned about click-through rates on myspace. From what I see on myspace, all that exists are "FREE SMILEYS"-type ads. Whenever I see those ads, I quickly suppose that their demographic isn't profitable.
Artists pay to get promoted on myspace, that's for sure though, but I think that's just part of the fad. Artists can setup myspace profiles, and just link to and promote them through other channels.
Philosophistry
Looking at time spent for the top searches we can draw some nice obviously correct conclusions. Time spent: Yahoo! 105,027 3:28:39 MSN 95,124 1:52:10 Google 93,244 1:00:56 The only logical conclusion is that it takes someone 1hr to find relevent data using google, almost 2hrs on MSN and 3.5hrs using Yahoo. I'm taking the liberty to disregard any other services these sites offer which may take up time in the name of the scientific method.
Seriously.... people actually visit Real.com? Is this for real (no pun intended)?
I visit that site about 2, maybe 3, times a year - TOPS. How the hell are they a top 10 site?
It seems like everything I run into these days is WMV, QT, or FLV.
"Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
Anywhere you can pick up lose women is bound to be popular.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Just wait until it hits digg.
"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is." G.W.Bush
Bloody impressive setup..g
:-P
I decided to go have a look and see what myspace is all about, jumped on the "tour" and then found that the second page in was broken:
http://www.modmeup.net/wp-content/myspace-brkn.pn
Quality setup guys...
"Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far
According to Alexa, MySpace has been in the top 10 for a while now.. http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500
Sigs are overrated.
contains kiddie porn and viruses!!!!!!
The down side is that there are sexual predators on the site. The up side is that there's sexual prey.
Why is Myspace so big? Why didn't a site with better code and features get the spot?
I make websites and stuff. Buy one.
I have seen a lot of comments here regarding why Real.com is ranked so highly. It likely is because their player does access content from their site regularly.
Most North Americans and Europeans fail to understand how vastly popular RealPlayer is in Asia. There have been some reports of over 75% of Indian computer users using RealPlayer, since it has very good support for languages such as Urdu, Tamil, Bengali, and Hindi. It also has superb support for Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and other Asian languages, thus leading to a high degree of usage there (although not as much as in India).
You forgot to ROT13 the punchline...
MySpace has been in the top ten since January.
http://www.apbctr.com/ Please understand that it's still a massive work in progress, and effectively one person doing the coding and another person doing the economics (I hope the webserver can handle it).
I'll be curious what people suggest...
"The bass, the rock, the mic, the treble. I like my coffee black, just like my metal" - Mindless Self Indulgence
You're paying WAY too much.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Ok so I have a my space site and why ? It runs on M$ ( omg no ! ). And it looks like no one from my my age group is on there when I do a search on there. And it looks like someone is always reading my posts but no one says anything. Really is this site safe to put personal info on and what is a GOOD "free" software equivilant so that I do not support non-free software ?
Myspace.com is being used as a tool to leverage censorship onto the internet.
OMGZ I have a MySpace account and am ruining the community of musicians it was intended to create. I'm 16f LOLZ! I have 10,000 friends, none of whom I've ever met and most of whom are 40 year old Slashdot geeks trying to convince me to meet up so they can sexually molest me!
LOLLERSKATEZ!!
(some content and relationships THAT is...)
I think that Microsoft should be Stricken because the 50 minutes spent on their site was trying to find a TID or get to a page that has some relevance to what your search terms were.
Firefox 2.0 - Spell Rightly.
I'm just a little suprised at the comments about MySpace. Clearly i am in a minority of /. readers who actually enjoys and uses MySpace. Granted, i only began using it a few weeks ago, but i have actually had fun using html and then teaching it to my friends so they can improve their pages. but most importantly, i have reconnected with a lot of old friends who now live in other cities. No other social networking website i have used before has been able to do that for me.
The real item of interest i thought was the "average usage time" stat. MySpace users average over 2 hours/session. Thats on par with ebay and Yahoo. and twice that of Google. thats a lot of ads. ads = $ = power whether the techno-istas poo-poo it or not.
I fall into the general age demographic of MySpace (15 years old). If you ignore the sexual predators, fucked-beyond-belief CSS (that crashes everything but IE), and general rampant idiocy, it's not such a bad place to keep in touch with your friends! :^)
</sarcasm>
Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've never come across the most unspeakable of horrors that the media/Slashdotters seem fond of pointing about the site.
Yeah, I'm just lucky.
(yes, i have a profile, so at least i know what i'm talking about)
ROMANES EUNT DOMUS
Is there any particular reason why myspace users are allowed to stream mp3 songs that I can only assume they don't have the copyright to? That and the sheer amount of hotlinking that happens there.
The question is - Is Microsoft #2 becasue of THIS page or despite it?
MySpace was ranked #4 on alexa.com last time I checked, a week or two ago..
Unbelievably, according to Alexa, Slashdot is only the 301st on the Global top 500. It's not in the top 100 Us sites, nor in the top 100 English sites.
None. Emo kids don't understand screwing.
I think everybody here on Slashdot that slams Myspace is full of shit. First of all, Myspace is awesome for amateur musicians, who for the most part dominate Myspace. Contrary to the popular Slashdot stereotype of Myspacers, a typical Myspace user is not some teenie bopper teenage girl playing bait the pedophile (a popular sport for sure, and yes there are those, but its just a stereotype, and these are not in the majority by any shot).
Bands dominate myspace. Bands networking with other bands and with people who want to listen to new fresh music. For the most part there are thousands and thousands and thousands of homebrew bands who would never get any kind of exposure at all now able to easily get their music out to the masses so they can listen to something other than censored formulated dribble on the radio.
Myspace is the biggest free for all music extravaganza there ever was, and its a hotbed of creativity... not only music, but graphics, and yes bizarre weird profiles. Myspace makes something like Itunes look like total crap, it even blows past the P2P networks (Limewire, etc) for distributing music around the globe. People don't want to download music, they want to stream it, and move on.
I never made music before in my life, but one day I tried it. And bam, what I did, surprised me. Where did that come from? So I made a little more. Next thing I know, two hundred people every day listen to my music around the globe. They do it for free, and I distribute it for free. Two hundred people a day listening to something you made... just rocks. And I'm just a small fish in a big, big pond.
I'll tell you what is bullshit. The slashdot formula. Its so obvious after a while its a joke. Post topics on the main page that are blatantly wrong and inflamatory, simply to have many people sweep down on it and argue this and that and the other like a bunch of female cackling hens. Its not productive, its not interesting, its rather dumb. Its based on nothing more than chosing articles to post that get peoples gander up to attract more page views and more arguing back and forth and as so many people have stated before, the information is always stupid or wrong or not even interesting from a geek standpoint.
If you want to break the RIAA's back, support Myspace. Or shut up and add music and video uploads to Slashdot. How long has it been since the slashcode has had any major, major features from a user standpoint implmented? Slashdot to me looks like the same Slashdot from 5 years ago...
And on the internet, you stand still, and your traffic dies...
You wouldn't be screaming to high heaven at Myspace if they weren't running circles around you and burning you to dust. Real winners don't whine. They see what's going on on the battlefield, and they respond appropriatly with a counter action. Whining is a sign of envy and a display of ones own inability to adapt and keep pace.
Einstein
50 caliber Fist FK
http://rootpassword.com/
What about the statistics from chinese websites? That "top 10" list hasn't a clue.
Usually, I like to point out that many very mainstream, popular corporate website runs on Linux, or else on commercial Unix.
But, in this case, I think I can proudly say, Myspace is running Windows.
Myspace on netcraft
Hopefully I didn't put any [] around my words.
Looks pretty bad. A different kind of bad than myspace, but still bad.
Spoon not. Fork, or fork not. There is no spoon.
I liked myspace better in the olden days... when it was called Geocities.
Seriously. Myspace is just the whole "make your own homepage" concept all over again, but this time with a built in way to search for other homepages that look as crappy as yours.
OMG! U got a [insert craptacular emo/hiphop/boy band] vide0 on yur page 2! Letz like be friendz forever!
Myspace is a giant bunghole. Here I am, an honest pedophile trying to get laid, and they have to go and hire that new guy.
It would be fun to find the absolute worst CSS on MySpace and substitute it on slashdot using Firefox's custom CSS feature. Talk about making the dot even more annoying, who's up for it?
Let's face it, all that used to be was page after page of people's god awful photos, bios, music and videos on garish backgrounds. It just wasn't as interconnected due to its nature as a page hosting service. All myspace did was provide a few more content management features to tie it all together. Geocities pretty much died on its ass (well merged into Yahoo! anyway). I've no doubt myspace will go much the same way when the next fad comes along.
They may be crazy teenagers who don't know any better, but I have 186 complete strangers clamoring to be my friend. It gets me an audience for my blog. I thought about retooling my old website and putting it back up (still might), but right now MySpace is where all the eyeballs are. The crazy teenage eyeballs.
He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing.
..they could be trying to spoil the pool.
I used to run the databases for the a marketing company that would try to mimic Neilsen's (and Arbitron's) methodology for selecting people. We would then bombard the neighborhood with direct mail for radio and TV stations. Contests and write ins and such.
The idea was to get the call letters top of mind so that if a real journal came in, the target would remember that, write it down, and it would be like all 10,000 people you mailed were listening/watching.
+&x
A band, "Hollywood Undead", has apparently made itself famous by promoting itself on Myspace. They have three million hits in Google. And some of them aren't even from Myspace.
Myspace is dead.
(had to say it...)
"Quoting yourself is stupid." -Me
echo "0.0.0.0 www.myspace.com" >> /etc/hosts
'nuff said.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
Really, they are making money off the inadequate state of networking and software in the English speaking world. In a better world, you could set up your space in your house. Your computer would be running free software, which does not get burnt for sharing, and your bandwith would not be artificially crimped. I'll bet that you don't see this kind of service arising in places with good bandwith and free software adoption.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
I'm a CS student in college right now and I can sadly say I can vouch for how out of control the myFace/Spacebook craze has gotten... Another CS friend summed it up pretty well with this quote:
"I've almost quit telling people I'm interested in computers anymore, because I keep getting the same responce: 'Oh, so does that mean you're like good at facebook?'"
I think I died a little bit inside when he said that...
No, bitch, it's MySpace, says Murdoch.
Ha, ha, ha, says Mr. Gates.
And so it goes on in the database nation. It's not yours.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=us er.viewprofile&friendid=34308508
In a number of unique visits it may be number 10, but that isn't accounting for the same people who visit it. just for web traffic there was an article about how it was #2 or #3. they have to take into account that the "unique" people who view it, probably view it about 150,000,000 times a day.
MySpace is high on the list of most visited sites? Good. Whatever keeps the little blighters away from LiveJournal and away from pestering me there is fine by me.
Cut the rope.
:)
(joke is a bit older than the emo fad, so works equally well with their goth predecessors
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
Except that it lets editors search your bookmarks for cool stuff, and lets you submit your bookmarks for consideration in a story. And that this should be trivial to integrate with firefox or opera, so that people can "Submit this link to Slashdot" from a right-click menu. And it forces the editors to RTFA before they post the story, which is always good.
I agree, though, that they should have just made a deal with Delicious or (my choice) Spurl instead of re-inventing the social bookmarking wheel. However, even if we never use it, you and I should still see the quality and obscurity of the stories (and the frequency of dupes) go up.
The ______ Agenda
MS have been claiming this as a big success story for .NET for a while. Interesting therefore that most of the pages I clicked on seemed to by running Macromedia's Cold Fusion (the .cfm extension) which is a J2EE product.
oh wait...
Nothing is inexplicable; only unexplained -Tom Baker, Doctor Who
There seems to be a prevailing view on /. that anything catering to and/or enjoyed by the public masses must be crap. Google seems to be the exception here since it carefully maintains its geek persona. While myspace does have its share of over-sexed, over-htmled crap, it has also provided brand new avenues for advertisers, marketers and, perhaps most importantly, independent bands. It's also quite handy for staying in touch with people you'd otherwise never be able to talk to.
/. to be that much more mature than what goes on at myspace... slashdotters just seem to take themselves more seriously. At the end of the day, myspace is about having fun. Perhaps the reason slashdotters don't use myspace and are coming down so hard on it is their lack of entertaining stories/pictures/life to share with the world...
For the most part, I don't find the bantering on
Love line was on the radio at work the other night and I heard Dr. Drew saying how he used myspace. When his girls meet some boy and he has a myspace page, Dr. Drew takes a look and can make a reasonable judgement call of "you are not going to see this guy again" or "have fun". I have to keep that in mind when my daughter gets a little older.
Heroscape, it's like legos combined with anachronistic wargames.
Sorry, but why exactly is language support that much of a big deal for a media player? Does Realplayer actually do on-the-fly translation of video content? (I doubt it, but that might explain how slow it is...) Other than being able to read the help pages, what significance is language support?
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 cannot be foundThe 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.
HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.Internet Information Services (IIS)
Technical Information (for support personnel)
Actually, Myspace is a great place to meet people I haven't seen in ages. Those of us with more friends than their PC will use myspace. And no, my page is not 9000px wide, and yes, I did code the css myself. Not everyone on myspace is a noob, but a lot of people on /. are ignorant!
You just haven't been to the right MySpace pages. Check out mine
"I love my job, but I hate talking to people like you" (Freddie Mercury)
According to Alexa...
lol man, dupe comments. Same title, same message, one posted 20 minutes before the other, not the same moderation.
Go figure!
You just got troll'd!
Myspace is owned by Rupert Murdoch & Company. Before anyone confuses me with a conspiracy theorist, they really do censor what you can write via Myspace. Article text is here: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interes ting-people/200601/msg00095.html .
I tried to post the above article on my Myspace message board, but it never actually gets posted (gets filtered out). I ran it through a l33tsp34k filter and it will post just fine.
Kind of scary, if only because people probably don't expect the service to do that kind of filtering.
The Right Reverend K. Reid Wightman,
Because then it would cut itself.
Bang Brothers porn site is 315, not far behind! Dang, I should buy some of that stock!
I have never visited MySpace.com. Well, once only, but it was unintentional.
Can i be have my karma back? Plz?
I was just talking recently about how much I hate myspace to all the moronic teenage idiots at school, and then this happens. Why don't the hackers of the world do good for us all and destroy myspace! All geeks reunite we must protect the internet from this vile attack against us! If we don't all the non-geeks will take the only thing we have have control of from us, the world of computers!
No, they'll sit there and whine, in that god forsaken whiny voice that for some reason is worshipped among the emo/punk community.
Myspace might be popular but it certainly isn't one of the "Top 10 Internet Sites". The coders have no idea regarding scalability (not that I claim to, either, but then my site gets 25,000 hits/month so it's not a huge concern), so the site breaks all the time. Add to that the hilariously lax controls over what can go on your profile (css, javascript and tracking cookies, anyone?) and it's amazing the site hasn't imploded. But mark my words, one day it will, and millions of voices will suddenly cry out in terror and will be suddenly silenced.
You know, as much as I dislike some of the crap on MySpace, it's pretty neat to log in and see someone in your friends request that you haven't seen in about 4-5 years. Finding people on there in the social networking role that it was designed for, actually works rather well.
[%] Cingular Ringtones
While there may be a couple of iotas of redeeming value at mySpace (connecting you with people you haven't seen/talked with in a while, and actually *wanted* to talk with again, etc.) the whole site feels like a high school popularity contest all over again.
All your sig are belong to us.
Thinking back about ten years to December 25, 1995, I remember my first computer. It was an IBM Aptiva with a 120MHz Pentium processor. It was the most incredible device I had ever laid eyes and hands on. I was most definitely in awe from the immense capabilities of this state-of-the-art machine. Of course, it wouldn't be long until I discovered I hadn't even scratched the surface of what my latest neat toy could do.
I can recall it as if it were yesterday, the first time I logged onto the Internet via 28.8Kbps dial-up to the Microsoft Network. I had been browsing the "newsgroups" to see what the fuss was all about, and why my mother should be paying $25 a month for me to use up our phone line.
It was then, I initiated a chat with another user of this "Microsoft Network." Definitely it was the grandest experience of my life, at that time, speaking with an anonymous user. Sending a message with my computer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and receiving a response back almost instantly from this man in Australia.
Of course, times have changed since then. With the advent of cross-platform, cross-network "instant messaging" applications, instantaneous full-duplex communication with people across the globe has become not just a reality, but a way of life. I now see peers of mine messaging anyone and everyone during the more dull moments of class on their networked mobile phones, PDAs, and "hip tops."
I have thought to myself for a long while, how wonderful it would be to leverage the global communications infrastructure for social development, education, and recreation. Amazingly enough, my greatest hopes have been realized.
The Internet is now being used to traffic democratic idea(l)s in and out of China, a country whose people otherwise would never have a chance at political, economic, and/or judgmental freedom.
Websites such as MySpace, Friendster, LiveJournal, and Xanga are allowing users around the globe interact through user-created, individually customized web pages. Users publicly post editorials, pictorials, and commentaries for all to view and subsequently respond with commentaries of their own personal styles.
As much potential as these social-networking ecosystems hold within, it may take years, even decades, for the power to be harnessed to promote the greater good, as it took for the original World Wide Web, electronic mail, and search engines.
I suppose we'll have to take a wait and see stance.
See you in another ten.
But if you are into free internet hookups, myspace is definitely a pretty good source. It allows you to actually find non-tech girls and tech girls alike. Almost everyone has a myspace, so you aren't just limited to the fat girls that have to talk on the Internet cuz they can't get a man elsewhere anymore. All this variety, despite the crappy pages, is great. It's good to meet people on the Internet that aren't all just about the Internet. No matter if the pages are ugly or not...cuz I don't look at them much to begin with.
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
My lawn is so Emo,
it cuts itself.
Real was a big surprise for me too. I've refused to install real player, or real one player, or whatever the newest hyped name is, for some time now on any computer I come into contact with. Not only is it bad, it is intrusive. I highly recommend Real Alternative if you absolutely must play real files. It's worked perfectly fine for me.
...so very much, actually. I hate the flash, I hate the background music, and I fucking loathe the abominations people wreak with their CSS.
However... it has gotten me laid. Yes, you read that right, bad CSS got me laid.
Amazing what the world it coming to, isn't it?
Not enough animated GIFs on that website
Also.... needs more cowbell
I think that you're right--there's a certain "geeky elitism" that prevails on Slashdot. But to a certain extent, that's part of the value of Slashdot: because many posters subscribe to the general idea that rational discussion and interesting points (from an intellectual POV) are the important thing, you often get comments that are well thought out (with flames and trolls hopefully modded down). On slashdot, I see links to interesting information in the comments--links that sometimes make me re-think ideas I have, links that provide interesting information, and even links to things I'm interested in purchasing. While there are flames (and Beowulf clusters of in Soviet Russia jokes) I'd say about 75% of what I see on slashdot is interesting to me on some level.
About 90% of what I've seen on myspace is not just uninteresting, it makes me want to put my eyes out with a fork. It's not its popularity that makes slashdot readers think that myspace is crap. It's that what you see in general IS crap (if you don't have an account--I've heard people with accounts say they have a different perspective). If you can't see a difference between 10 million poorly written, badly formatted, blinking, flashing, OMG Ponies myspace pages and the articles and comments on slashdot, I'm not sure how to help you.
Interested in a Flash-based MAME front end? Visit mame.danzbb.com
Craigslist with pictures and sound...
I wish I could get all my friends to switch to orkut.
"It's because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything." -Homer Simpson
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Trust me, there's a whole lot of people
there are a whole lot of people...
"There are more important things than stopping terrorism. Upholding the Constitution is one of them." - Ars Forumer.
After doing some research, I found out that MySpace lives in a single Class C IP block, (This may change over time, but as of now this info is accurate.)
Simply add this to your firewall rules to block and your set!
MySpace IP Block:
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63.208.226.0/24
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I checked it out, it is horrible! I've never seen anything so nasty in all of my life on the web. I have two kids, hopefully myspace will be long forgotton by the time they are teens.
My space has been growin at 260,000 people per day. It's hosted on 150 servers down from 250 servers. http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2006/0 3-20MIX.asp
MySpace has 65 million registered members, and that's growing at 260,000 members every day. In February we had 38 million unique views, and 23 billion page views. In fact, Media Metrics tells us that we're the No. 2-trafficked site on the Internet, passing Google, eBay, and just recently MSN.
Sorry about that, Bill.
Bill can take comfort in knowing that we've achieved these numbers using SQL Server 2005, and also ASP.NET 2.0. (Applause.) So right around the time that we started MySpace we took a look at some other social networking sites on the Internet, Friendster was blowing up, but it was just a dating site. There were some other sites out there that were geared towards business, classifieds, we wanted to do something different, we wanted something for everybody.
Our vision was to become a next-generation portal that empowers people to speak for themselves, and do whatever they want. So we gathered all the cool features that we saw on the Internet, and we brought them together, and integrated them into our social networking platform. Music is one of the best examples of things to become incredibly popular on MySpace.
So let's take a look at some of the technical milestones we've hit with Microsoft. We've been around for 2-1/2 years. Since the beginning we've had to make continuous changes to keep up with the growth. MySpace has primarily relied on Microsoft technologies, for both the operating system and for the database and development platform.
On our way to 65 million members we started off with a simple backend architecture, but we quickly realized a lot more was needed for us to stay alive.
Our first big win was at 9 million members when we converted parts of MySpace over to ASP.net. We immediately saw huge performance gains, specifically on the CPU. With ASP.net our developers are also able to take advantage of the true object oriented programming nature that C# provides.
At 17 million members we deployed a large-scale dynamic caching engine in ASP.net. We were able to get 92 percent cache hit rates, which greatly reduced the amount of load on our databases. We were also using a 64-bit version of ASP.net, so we can load up our servers with a huge amount of RAM, which reduced the number of servers we had to put in the data center.
SQL Server has been core to MySpace since the beginning. We were early adopters of SQL Server 2005, and in testing we found that there were huge performance benefits in it. We had SQL Server in production before it was officially released, and it relieved a lot of performance bottlenecks in the MySpace architecture.