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MySpace Revamps Site To Recapture the Magic

Posted by samzenpus on from the good-luck-with-that dept.

Ponca City writes "MySpace has unveiled an overhauled website and logo as it attempts to recapture the magic that led it to top the social-networking sphere. According to the report 'MySpace is positioning itself for the so-called Gen Y crowd, or those roughly between 10 and 30 years old.' A beta version of the new website will start rolling out Wednesday and is slated to be accessible to users globally by the end of November. Plans are for the site to focus on entertainment with the home page constantly updating items about music, movies and television shows that are most discussed on the site at any one time."

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  1. Too late. by Winckle · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As soon as Murdoch bought the site it tanked completely. Now obviously those two things aren't entirely connected. I can still be happy about it though. :)

    Also worth seeing:

    1. Re:Too late. by DragonWriter · · Score: 4, Insightful

      As soon as Murdoch bought the site it tanked completely. Now obviously those two things aren't entirely connected.

      I wouldn't be surprised if they were entirely connected, though with perhaps the reverse of the causal relationship some people might assume.

      After all, if you think you've driven your product to the maximum market value its ever going to have, its obviously a good time to sell; if you think you can cost-effectively make it worth more on the market before selling it, it makes sense to sell it.

    2. Re:Too late. by melikamp · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I wonder which magic they are gonna recapture. This one? Or this?

    3. Re:Too late. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      For a demo of the new site, go here.

      Well, it's not as bad as it used to be.

  2. Re:Name fail by cayenne8 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Wait...between age 10-30, you're Generation "Y".

    What age group range is Generation "X"?

    Where is the cutoff for boomers age-wise?

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  3. its dead by Nyall · · Score: 5, Insightful

    myspace == new geocities.

    I stopped using it because I was sick of all the garish pages people would put together and the automated music playing.

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  4. What else is new? by operagost · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since when was Myspace ever NOT Gen-Y oriented? My Gen-X brain had it filed under "Wretched Hive of Scum and Villany" since the first day I stumbled onto some 14 year old's putrid purple-and-pink theme, complete with animated-GIF hearts and skulls and two Avril Lavigne videos playing simultaneously.

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  5. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No. That's the problem they're trying to address.

  6. the #1 reason myspace failed by rev_sanchez · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most people have terrible taste and myspace gave them a lot more of an opportunity to unleash that onto the internet. They became the social networking version of Geocities and that ruined their branding.

    Facebook locks down the look and feel of their website quite a lot and for branding purposes that's a good thing.

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  7. Re:Name fail by operagost · · Score: 5, Funny

    Last time I checked, Gen X was composed of those born between 1962 and 1980. If you have a Journey song on your MP3 player that's not "Don't Stop Believin'", you're probably Gen X.

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  8. The target isn't FaceBook by Yvan256 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Plans are for the site to focus on entertainment with the home page constantly updating items about music, movies and television shows that are most discussed on the site at any one time.

    IMHO they don't want to steal users from FaceBook, they want to prevent Apple's Ping from becoming the next largest media-based social network because that's where the money is: movies, TV shows, music and ads.

    The thing is, all iTunes users already have the potential of being Ping users, it's only one click away.