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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.
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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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.
Equally, I'd be prepared to bet that msn.com and aol.com have such high rankings based mostly on their use as the default start page for two popular internet browsers, as opposed to explicit user desire to either surf there or use them as a home page based on anything other than lazyness.
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.
...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.
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.
but MySpace behaves as though it were coded by fucking retarded monkeys.
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
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/
Anywhere you can pick up lose women is bound to be popular.
How we know is more important than what we know.
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
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).
MySpace has been in the top ten since January.
You're paying WAY too much.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
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.
The question is - Is Microsoft #2 becasue of THIS page or despite it?
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.
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.
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!
..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
Are you seriously that dilustional?
/. is for refining a persons ideas. Without the opposition you'd never find holes in your idea's.
You Say that mostly bands use myspace. Yes some do But not all nor is it most the profiles. Most profiles are of teens or people who can't seem to spell the simple word "you". Yes it's simple three letters.
I know you're flamebait, But I am responding to you anyways. For some reason a moderator mod you up.
mp3.com before they got bought out was ten times better then myspace would ever be for bands.
Then you go on to say that slashdots users are jealous of myspace users. You do know that the reason people come to slashdot isn't so much for the articles as it is for the article sized comments. A community of Intellectuals that is grouped around technology. Myspace is a pop culture group.
The arguing on
What use would adding video uploads to slashdot be? The video craze is a fad right now. (when I say fad I mean in it's current form) Sites such as youtube are working off of VC. Hence they arn't profitable. It just means some guys where able to convince some other people to give them money to setup a site, I can't see their site making money to pay the bills in the long run unless they change their bussiness plan. I could see them trying a sell this bussiness to someone else type of thing. They do have one thing that has value, a community. Which is why fox corp bought myspace. It's their demographic, a not very inteligent one. (Almost free research.)
Break the RIAA's back? What? Myspace isn't that strong when it comes to music. Most the bands on myspace are local bands trying to expand, they don't because they don't have a large appeal. (aka they suck!!!) People don't like to admit it but the riaa has some good bands along with the bad.
I know I probably made mistakes, but whatever I don't care.
One last thing. If you don't like slashdot so much. Just leave.
echo "0.0.0.0 www.myspace.com" >> /etc/hosts
'nuff said.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
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...
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.
"Bands dominate myspace."
Bands dominate YOUR myspace. Log out and try visiting as an anonymous user. From there it's pretty obvious: idiots dominate myspace.
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.
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!
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,
My lawn is so Emo,
it cuts itself.