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MySpace Trying To Regain Lost Ground With Games and Music
Over the past several years, MySpace has lost a significant amount of the social networking market to competitors like Facebook. Now, MySpace is trying to recapture lost interest by increasing the site's focus on games and music, as well as keeping an eye out for new technologies that would directly benefit their users.
"[News Corp.'s Jonathan Miller] said he is 'obsessed' with real-time technology, such as the one Twitter has exploited in its social networking and microblogging service, and he wants to see MySpace incorporate it. He also said MySpace is lagging by having a platform that has been 'too closed' to external developers, something that he wants to see changed, especially for the sake of MySpace's gaming offerings. In addition, he wants to see MySpace push ahead in mobile."
90% of my friends have migrated away from myspace they play games on facebook and yahoo. So who are these people going to play with on Myspace? The lower class degenerates? As the popular media likes to refer to them as.
LOL "social" networking. you'd have to be a complete fucking loser to create an account at any of those sites.
Myspace makes my eyes bleed, I'm old, get off my lawn, etc, I don't participate in facebook, I think twitter is largely inane and stupid, it's an internet distribution list for stupid OMFG LOOK AT THIS LOL! posts from idiots... However, Twitter and Facebook, while I find them inane and largely irrelevant to my aged lifestyle do not make my eyes bleed, my head explode and my browser crash, as I'm assuming myspace would, if I'd ever look at it with IE, or with javascript turned on etc... blech...
MySpace is the Detroit of social networking...once vibrant and full of life, it's not a much smaller and more depressing version of its former self. Adding things that are already widely available all over the Internet isn't going to change anything.
News Corp. wildly overspent for a turkey when they bought MySpace because, as has been proven over and over again by Mr. Murdoch himself, they have no understanding at all of how the Internet works, they have no idea what it takes to make money on the Internet, and they have no idea what anything on the Internet is actually worth.
...after dial-up began to become irrelevant. "Hey, look! Bells AND whistles! You don't want that nasty DSL stuff...it sounds like a STD!" Same thing.
if the page still takes a minute to load, and when it does, it's as ugly as home-made sin.
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I use Zembly to create apps on Facebook. If they join Zembly, or make a framework that is easy for developers I give it a go. I haven't been to MySpace in months.
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one of the biggest gripes I have with MySpace aside from the spam and difficulties in managing (or lack thereof) messages is the inability to keep myself logged in like Facebook and Twitter.
Yes, make it like Facebook, put applications in it whose main purpose is to data mine, while using a game-like interface to make the people who use it happy while they freely give out theirs and their friends' information. Yes, it is true. On Facebook, even if you don't use an application, if you don't specifically say don't use my information, your friends using the application will enable your information to be used.
Personally, I think the whole mini-application craze the web is going through is getting old. I do have Facebook, and I am so sick and tired of everyone wanting me to install an 'app' so they can level up or whatever. No, I will not give my information up so that you can get another fucking flower in your garden. I will not give my identity to a faceless corporation so that your mafia gang will get more powerful. I will not let some company use my life to earn more money for themselves just so I can see the results for some compatibility test you took and thought everyone on your friends list should take, just so you can see how compatible your are with all your friends. Guess what, if they are actually your friends, you already should have a basic understanding of your compatibility(true compatibility, not which cartoon character are you compatibility) with them.
I don't want to enhance my sex life, nor am I looking for hot singles on the web in my area. I don't need viagra, and I don't have wrinkles that need hiding. I will not change my status every time I eat a meal, and I will not put pictures of what I wore today. I will not comply with this state of mind that says I have to be open with my life, that I must post everything I do to my Twitter account(which I refuse to make) and that I must make blog posts about Britney Spears and my dog. If I want someone to know what I am doing, and I feel they will care, I will call them or meet them in person and carry on a conversation with them until we each feel that what we have to say is finished. I will not live my life through Facebook.
Stay out of my life, Mark Zuckerberg. May you lose your billions as quickly as you made them.
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Why not "charge" for MySpace like good ol' Rupert wants to for all his other garbage? That will ensure success!
Does Myspace have any actual relevance to anyone here? Or has it just become yet another fossilizing internet community like friendster or orkut?
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I worked for America Online when Jonathan Miller came on as CEO. It was pretty encouraging to have someone who seemed clueful about the internet making decisions for a change. There was a big push to get the company thinking in terms of Web 2.0. During one of the company all-hands in 2006 or 2007 or so he even brought in Tim O'Reilly for an interview. For a company whose culture was just getting around to realizing that the AOL dial-up client was a dead-end product, this was a big change. Eventually Jonathan Miller was pushed out from AOL and a former NBC executive was brought in, and the company went back to trying to understand the internet in terms of television.
As it was with AOL, I suspect MySpace's reawakening is too late. There isn't any likelihood MySpace is going to challenge Facebook or Twitter, but there may still be some value left. MySpace was popular among kids at one point, maybe they can make something of that. Based on what I saw at AOL, Miller has good a chance of salvaging MySpace as anyone. The biggest danger that I can see is that the company is ultimately owned by Rupert Murdoch who isn't exactly a friend to progress.
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aww, did you get your little black and white, high angled, self photographing emo feelings hurt? go buy some more razor blades, son.
Since Myspace can't seem to even manage bug fixing I have big doubts over their ability to do anything.
More power to MYSPACE, although I hope Murdock realizes the endgame.
Frankly, I never understood why MySpace got anywhere at all. I've yet to see a single page on it where I don't think about slapping the author with a lawsuit for emotional damages.
It is but-ugly, unfriendly and loud (both visually and with all the crappy background music). In short, it's the hip-hop of the web. Uh wait. I think I just answered my question.
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In my humble opinion, MySpace is just too painful to be true:
1) it tells me to install Flash, while I have it installed and working fine on other sites (using even proprietary Flash 10 on my Debian amd64 box)
2) it doesn't have a single way to give feedback to the administrators of MySpace (e.g. for issue 1)
3) it's a pain to the eyes to see most MySpace pages. Things are messed up, bad color schemes, hardly any well-thought about layout.
Who needs MySpace?
Unfortunately, many music composers seem to like it... :(
myspace = place to check out small bands.
They are not a social networking site any more and never will be, if they want to get anywhere they should concentrate on the music aspect of myspace, before the kids figure out that last.fm/band_name is cooler than myspace.com/band_name. I mean i hope they don't but thats what they should do if they want to be relevant,
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Wait, you mean to say that being the first-to-market, creating a new "space," acquiring mind-share, and all that other business-type-crap ISN'T a sure-fire magical path to success? Things like quality, usability, and continuous innovation actually matter? Who knew!
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That Goatse fellow was the first person to show the world his "My Space". And it's been downhill ever since.
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The real problems I've found with MySpace every time I tried going back to it are:
Facebook resolved these issues by offering completely clean interfaces and a very simple, non-intrusive experience for its users. Personally, I didn't mind them opening the experience to high school students; there were no easy ways for them to trash their page, and they wouldn't learn how to anyway. I minded more when they switched to an AJAX-y layout, since it kind of broke the simplicity they always carried.
You know its bad when the founder of MySpace (I think?) is proclaiming to add MORE of what they already have. MySpace Games and Music are well established. They're done for.
Maybe they should focus on porn-bots and idiots first. Well, that would make them lose most of their user count. Always a catch 22.
Playgrounds for the kids.
A Girl Like You.
One of my favourite songs, and recently they shut it down.
Burn in hell, wankers.
Even with the damn checkbox "I don't want to receive messages from bands" checked, you still get band spam. Myspace started out moderately fun, then became way too bloated, slow and flashy. Facebook is starting to turn out similarly, started out lean and mean and people fled there from myspace...now it's starting to get way too bloated, slow and flashy (but still nowhere near as bad as Myspace). History will repeat itself again once the new MyBook.com (or whatever it's called) comes along that is fast, light and easy. Myspace will then die and Facebook will be in the same boat as Myspace is in now....and no it won't be Twitter.