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Hundreds of startups are started as widgets (third party item that can be embedded in a web page) on myspace such as photobucket, rockyou, etc.
The new facebook platform will do the same thing except with a smaller audience (about a third of the size of myspace) but a better platform. It will be better integrated with the existing system (news feeds, note posting, etc) when compared to myspace. Myspace simply throws the widget on the page and has no way of tying different parts of the site together (you cannot tag people in photos, tag someone for a note, or view “news feeds”).
Myspace has an unstable infrastructure (we’re all use to the page crashes and unidentified errors), ugly design, and poor integration. IMHO, myspace it the thousand pound gorilla that was created poorly in the beginning. It’s gotten so big, that changing the infrastructure is difficult to do. They can’t implement the things as fast as facebook due to their popularity and due to the fact that they’re tied to a fat, ugly system. It’s like trying to move three thousand people from a raft, to a cruise ship… It just can’t be done. Moving them to dump they’re users in the water (aka it requires you to take a system down for a bit).
Rather than moving them (the users have to be in the water for a little bit), myspace is slowly trying to patch holes in their raft. They’re trying to turn the raft into a cruise ship…Tuff Luck.
Myspace… you’re only hope is this… admit that you don’t have a cruise ship… build one. Take the site down for a little bit and move everyone over to a cruise ship. Quit trying to make the cruise ship out of the raft. If you don’t… you’re going to sink. Or… people are going to dive off of your raft and swim to a cruise ship.
Do you get the point? I expect a response Mr. Murdoch.
Some good points. You are very smart.
While I agree with you that myspace is a piece of crap, and facebook is a much better application, myspace has a couple of components that make it more attractive to the average joe.
Foremost, customization. I cringe when I go to some people’s myspace pages. Let’s face it, they look like hell, but people love to be able to personalize their little spot on the internet. They feel like that give the world a vision of who they are, even though you and I may think it looks like total crap.
Interesting article comparing myspace components to popular games like World of Warcraft, which we all know is completely dominant in the realm of MMORPG.
http://shufflebrain.com/etech06.htm
i think you are so hot.
I’m going to post that just so everyone knows that SOMEONE thinks so.
This is what I’ve been screaming for a long time too. I HATE Myspace. Maybe it’s the designer in me, but why do all the pages there look like 2nd grader’s art notebooks? While Facebook may be ultra plain, it does exactly what I want it to do. No frills. Just relational contacts.
me likey facebook.
i think you are so hot too.
Why, thank you!
not you, I think RJ is hot.
Sigh…
even though he doesn’t aknowledge my existence.