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A Grand Unified Theory of YouTube and MySpace
Ant writes "Paul Boutin's Slate article explains the factors contributing to the success YouTube and MySpace: they are easy to use (usability), and they don't 'tell you what to do.'" From the article: "Both YouTube and MySpace fit the textbook definition of Web 2.0, that hypothetical next-generation Internet where people contribute as easily as they consume. Even self-described late adopters like New York editor Kurt Andersen recognize that that by letting everyone contribute, these sites have reached a critical mass where 'a real network effect has kicked in.'"
isn't described by what the interface looks like or how easy it is to use.
Everybody knows myspace is just a place to get laid
-gjr
...teenage girls
OMG!!1! ponies!!!1!!
Exhibit A
Exhibit B
The prosecution rests.
At least a side social benefit of MySpace is that people will be able to discover if they suffer from epilepsy earlier. Flashing text on a flashing background with scrolling neon menubars and CCR's "Fortunate Son" MIDI file playing on high = quality design.
Web 4.0: Background music on the page is automatically blocked
Go ahead and mod me down if you think I'm a troll, but I had fun writing the above
Q: What's something kids love that's ugly, bloated, slow, and constantly goes down on them?
A: Michael Jackson!
Uh, I mean, MySpace!!
Sony ha
It must get worse before it can get better... web 2.1: server side blink.
I believe posters are recognized by their sig. So I made one.
Can someone explain the YouTube business model? It neither directly charges its users nor sells ad space, and streaming video takes a ton of storage and bandwidth.
I can't explain their business model, but thanks to leaked, highly-confidential YouTube documents, I can reveal it to you:
"2. ???"
Note to Moderators: I'm accepting both +1 Funny and +1 Insightful mods today!
Web 5.0: Revenge of teh n00bs!
I hereby propose a motion to declare reldruH (956292) banished from Slashdot.org for reasons of not welcoming our half-naked Web 2.0 overlords, and, of course, for reasons of insanity.
For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.
According to my extensive research, MySpace can be described by a non-abelian gauge theory with special unitary group SU(CK). Most of its pages are homeomorphic to terrible Geocities pages from 1997. Chromodynamic theories suggest that unlike the red, green, and blue of quarks, the colors of a MySpace page are limited to fluorescent pink, black, and a text color whose hue is optimized to minizime contrast with the background. An currently unresolved question is whether every page on my space is invariant under an embedded Mike Jones song.
Given the quality of the posts on many myspace pages, unreadable text might be a very good thing.
-1 disagree is not a modifier for a reason. -1 troll, flaimbait, redundant, overrated are NOT acceptable substitutes.
Viagra?
That is all.
It's funny how a site dedicated to nerds is so biased against a site dedicated to having friends.
My Greatest Heist - Muisc partly inspired by the unbeatable Qwantz
Only when they make webpages that aren't Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
To paraphrase Einstein,
"I know not with which browser Web 3.0's content will be updated with, but Web 4.0's content will be updated with sticks and stones."
Don't trust a bull's horn, a doberman's tooth, a runaway horse or me.
Hey now, I still handcode in vi.
At my age I find coming up with a witty signature too exhausting.
Web 6.0: Return of the Slashdotters
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
MyTubeSpace4You?
vi? You had vi? Hah. We had to toggle zeros and ones into the console with switches. And on bad days we didn't even had zeros. And we liked it! Uphill. Both ways. No, wait, wrong rant...
We're all born with nothing.
If you die in debt, you're ahead.
youhavespaceinmytube.com... or maybe spacemytube.com or even my_space_your_tube.com?
I'm sorry, I'm to tired to be witty at the moment so this message will have to do.