MySpace #1 US Destination Last Week 381
An anonymous reader writes "Hitwise is reporting that MySpace has reached the top, surpassing Yahoo! Mail as the most visited site on the internet for US users. Seeing a 4300% increase in visits in just two short years, this internet sensation has come quite a long ways. From the article: 'To put MySpace's growth in perspective, if we look back to July 2004 myspace.com represented only .1% of all Internet visits. This time last year myspace.com represented 1.9% of all Internet visits. With the week ending July 8, 2006 market share figure of 4.5% of all the US Internet visits.'"
blwh (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:blwh (Score:5, Funny)
You'll notice the timing of the traffic surge with recent terrorist event and subsequent legislation.
It's mostly just PATRIOT act research by the gummint to check out prospective employees.
Re:blwh (Score:3, Funny)
I think you need to readjust your frequency there, Kenneth.
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Re:blwh (Score:3, Informative)
After some research, I found that they are running a huge mish-mash of different languages and middleware. Calling it ColdFusion at this point is pretty much incorrect.
So, I was wrong.
Re:blwh (Score:5, Funny)
You must be new here.
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Re:blwh (Score:5, Funny)
Wow. That's two of you this evening!
Re:blwh (Score:3, Interesting)
I program in CF, sometimes it just drives me NUTS! Its the tons of little problems that Adobe/Macromedia/Allaire won't fix.
Honestly, CF is on a slow decline. It had potential, but they were more interested in making a quick buck. (No service packs for CF5 is criminal)
And NewAtlanta is not much better. Could have come out with a $300 CF server, flooded the market and charged extra for support. But no, instead you get a free license that basically says you can't run hello
In Unrelated News... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In Unrelated News... (Score:2)
In all seriousness, I wonder how much of that Myspace traffic is just from the spam bots that are responsible for so much of what is on that site.
Re:In Unrelated News... (Score:3, Funny)
Good question about the bot traffic though. I know i get more spam from myspace than any other site i visit.
Worthless. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Worthless. (Score:5, Insightful)
In other news, MySpace was designed.
Clue to all geeks everywhere:
Nobody cares that MySpace runs on code that is inelegant, nor that it results in sloppy-looking personal pages
It's a big ol' mess, but it's a big ol' mess that a lot of young folks find useful. End of story.
Re:Worthless. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Worthless. (Score:5, Interesting)
MySpace is well designed, you just can't see the forest for the trees.
Firstly, go read this article [joelonsoftware.com] which talks about what geeks call "marketing", which is often used as a throwaway term for all the parts of running a software business that the programmers don't really understand or care about. MySpace has not done any serious marketing. It grew entirely through word of mouth.
Next, go actually look at MySpace, and do it through the eyes of a non-technical young person. I don't mean a 16 year old, though I'm sure there are lots there, I mean anybody under 35. MySpace offers the following things:
It's distracting and fun. It has lots of features that let people spend their time just faffing around - redesigning their profile yet again, finding cool bands, seeing who their friends friends are, writing on peoples walls etc. If there's nothing good on TV and they don't have much energy it's an easy way to be entertained.
It lets people express themselves. Ever wondered why almost every MySpace profile page is customised? Well, people just love to express themselves. How many people live in a room with no ornaments or posters or personal artifacts? Hardly anybody right? Why do people blow 8mb of memory on a wallpaper that will sit under their copy of Word for 90% of the day? Why do people use annoying custom ringtones that they change every few weeks? People like to customise their personal space, it's just a part of who we are, and MySpace allows you to do that.
It's a quick and easy way for musicians to get their music out to the masses. See the example of Lily Allen in the UK for somebody who made it big via MySpace. Ditto for I think the Arctic Monkeys.
It can be used as a dating site even though it's not marketed that way.
It used to be that people met through local institutions ... if you go back and ask your grandmother how she met your grandfather I wouldn't be surprised to hear an answer like "we went to the same church" or "he worked in a local shop and I saw him every day when buying groceries". This sort of thing is now very uncommon. People live more isolated lives, and it's often hard to date people you meet through work due to workplace politics - this is especially true of slightly older types who are in management.
So it's not surprising that surveys and studies everywhere show that use of internet dating is way, way up and growing all the time. But it still has some social stigma attached to it. MySpace lets you search peoples profiles by region and easily contact them, which is all you really need to have a "dating site", except anybody who is on there can simply say they are there because their friends are there, because they like the bands etc. And for people looking it's better too, as people tend to post (mostly) real photos and don't just make stuff up, because they know their friends might see it.
It has lots and lots and lots of people
Some things MySpace doesn't have: technical sophistication, robustness, speed - all the things geeks value. These things do matter, look at how totally Facebook has crushed MySpace amongst those who have access to it. But never discount the value of a good social design, because these sites aren't tech demos, they are social networking sites.
Reminds me of this old joke (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Reminds me of this old joke (Score:3, Funny)
SURVEY: MAJORITY OF WEB USERS ARE
FBI AGENTS POSING AS TEENAGE GIRLS
Survey Shows Evolving Web No Longer Dominated by Male Techies
NEW YORK, N.Y. (SatireWire.com) -- The Internet reached a demographic milestone this week as a new study revealed that for the first time, the majority of U.S. Internet users are FBI agents posing as teenage girls.
The report, by research firm Media Metrix, marks the first time the demographic group known as "males" has not been in the major
Re:Reminds me of this old joke (Score:5, Funny)
The Internet: Where men are men, women are men, and children are federal agents.
4300% (Score:2)
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What can we learn from this? (Score:5, Interesting)
Piece of cake. (Score:4, Informative)
At the rate that teens and 20-somethings are being dumbed down by visiting MySpace pages, the 30+ crowd that they will become will have lost any ability to grow out of using it.
1) Get a 16-year-old using MySpace
2) Wait 14 years - thus, 30-year-old still using MySpace
3) Profit!
Re:Piece of cake. (Score:2)
Re:What can we learn from this? (Score:5, Interesting)
Basically, My Space does all of those sappy things that the internet was supposed to do years ago. The content is all by users. It's all about helping people network with eachother. It appeals to people's vanity as well as their curiosity. It happens to have a great underserved niche (indie bands) that tent pegs it even if they aren't the primary users. It's naughty. It's viral.
Basically, put control in the hands of your users, and let them work for the communal site. Find some underserved niche and add features to support their usage habits. Make sure everyone joins. Don't censor interesting stuff. Be a community builder rather than a content provider.
Let them build it, and they will come.
Re:What can we learn from this? (Score:3, Interesting)
Disclaimer: this isn't meant to argue against your question, just that you happened to mention how this can apply to the 30+ crowd and I figured I'd say how it already has. Social communities in the professional crowd thus far are awkward at best, usually because professionals simply don't want to waste their time on a networking tool based off of a teen socializing model.
You'd be amazed how many 30+ users are on myspace. Just cause you're 30, doesn't mean you can't be involved in the service industry, t
Re:What can we learn from this? (Score:2)
I don't think thirtysomethings in general go for "crazes" in the same way that 15-25-year-olds do. It may be impossible to get a reaction on the same scale from that demographic.
use Hitwise to track your website, apparently (Score:4, Insightful)
Want a good example of how that "top site" statistic is a bunch of bullshit? I don't know a single person that uses Myspace. I know LOTS of people that have yahoo/gmail/etc webmail accounts.
Oh, and it doesn't hurt to have every other page return a server error or a blank page. I'm told Myspace's servers are about as reliable a crack addict.
Re:use Hitwise to track your website, apparently (Score:3, Informative)
Re:What can we learn from this? (Score:2)
So this means... (Score:5, Funny)
the downhill trend of quality of life continues
Worrisome, but not unexpected (Score:5, Insightful)
Today, we have online dating, message boards for everything, and web based chat everywhere. If a site isn't dynamic, it's quickly dropped by the online populace. The fact is, this is not unexpected. Myspace.com spent some time developing a site where people could blog and network. It worked for them.
The worrisome part of this is that people don't seem to understand how potentially dangerous this is. Consider the sheer volume of details some people (read: children) put on their myspace accounts. Parents SHOULD police this, but, all too often, they don't. The fact is that this service presents all too much possibility for children to get hurt. Consider also the single women all over who post their info online. Some of them realize that they shouldn't post that they live alone in an apartment in south-central LA, but others would very quickly post this sort of thing. Unfortunately, this again puts people at risk.
I don't think that the site should be stopped from operating, as I tend to be somewhat of the opinion that if you put your details out there for the world to see, it's your fault if something bad happens. OTOH, people need to think a bit more.
not a problem (Score:5, Funny)
The "children" are FBI agents.
Having a unique name really sucks (Score:5, Insightful)
So anyway, you need only type my name into Google and have a complete record of every inane thing I ever said back when I was 15 years old. If there is anyone else in the world with the same name, they haven't ever used it on the net. Ok, so it's not particularly damaging information, but it does allow ANYONE to find out that I like Nirvana and Douglas Adams and RPGs and arguing with people. It's rather embarassing, really, to have your semi-profound adolescent musings completely exposed, availible for anyone to read at any time so long as they know your first and last name, but there's really nothing I can do about it. The original archives have been cached by Google and archive.org. Like it or not, I'm immortalized, and I really pity the fools on Myspace who have unique names, or even the ones with common names but specific addresses (or other identifying personal info) posted. In all liklihood every single trivial fact, every single inane/insane rant has been archived *somewhere* and it'll eventually turn up in a Google search. It's irreversable--it's a gigantic bell that simply can't be un-rung.
I shudder to think what would've happened if I made a truly questionable post under my real name. If some teen posts a rant on Myspace that could be construed as racist or radically anarchist or in any other way offensive or unpopular, that rant will be there perhaps for the rest of his life. It will be there every time he goes to apply for a job, and if he was foolish enough to provide such information as a home address he won't be able to claim it's not him. I don't know what there's any real solution for this except education. A lot of people out there don't see the point in anonymity, or even worse they view it as a weakness, a sign of guilt or triviality. Unfortunately, likely they won't start paying attention until criminals and potential employers/friends/lovers alike start turning to Google every time they get curious about their mark/employee/friend/etc.
Re:Having a unique name really sucks (Score:3, Informative)
Google doesn't keep archives of websites permanently (or doesn't make them available if they do). When they re-spider a site they replace their copy with the current data; old pages will disappear from its sear
how about this (Score:3, Funny)
Darwinian... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Worrisome, but not unexpected (Score:3, Insightful)
But be careful not to fall into the panic-trap. Life does not consist of a series of crisis. Most things that in principle can go wrong, do not, infact, go wrong. Theres a line between sensible caution and downrigth paranoia.
If you pay too much attention to never risking anything, you give up something else; your freedom.
Some people say, young females should never travel alone. I've read tips that you, as a single tra
counting hits? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:counting hits? (Score:4, Funny)
And more importantly, does Netcraft confirm it?
Re:counting hits? (Score:2)
Hitwise is talking about user visits. Netcraft don't attempt to track user visits and never have.
Re:counting hits? (Score:2)
Obvious! (Score:4, Insightful)
Combining lots of barely post pubescent teens with raging hormones and disposable income contributes to this large growth. The website scaled and spread by word of mouth. This site is the best representation of a "free internet" as far as I can tell. Everyone who wants to be on it, can be on it. This includes the spectrum of bands looking for fans with a pro website, to teens looking for a connection, including the text choice of size 55 pink wingdings on a blinking blue background or whatever.
The site has support from everyone, the users, the advertisers, the creators, the owners. Everyone is getting something they want from it. This is how a business grows so rapidly.
To quote(paraphrase) someone, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
Re:Obvious! (Score:2)
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
Actually you didn't paraphrase, that was exact. It's by Charles Dickens, and opens "A Tale of Two Cities."
Someone else draw the clever parallels to MySpace. It's late, so I can come up with is that at some point there's I hope there's a revolution that knocks MySpace off the 'net.
YESSZZ OMG OMG this is the rockz0rx (Score:5, Funny)
THES IS out the ass omg OMG I am speechless
LOng live EMO! peace and love to all. and BOOBIES!
yours,
xxxzzzMYsPACErUlEsmEyyyyzzzxxx
Re:YESSZZ OMG OMG this is the rockz0rx (Score:2)
Narcissism (Score:5, Insightful)
People are presented with a tool for publishing absolutely anything, about any topic they choose. Instead of presenting thoughtful, creative or otherwise valuable content, the vast majority elect to pointlessly ramble about themselves in minute detail or engage in endless back and forth with other users about nothing in particular. Which is fine, but it shouldn't have the legitimacy of other web content.
In many ways, the whole blog concept has perhaps lowered the barrier to entry for on-line publishing a little *too* far. When anyone can publish anything you want with virtually no effort, then it no longer requires that you be inspired or motivated before your inane ramblings are out there in cyberspace. The media has adopted the trend too, with 'blog' in the context of a news site all too often meaning 'poorly researched and largely content-free "reporting" on sensationalist subject matter.'
Perhaps it's time to move past the blog hype and to consider some method for differentiating personal diaries (i.e., what used to be a personal homepage), social chit chat (i.e., what used to be a bulletin board, IRC, or IM activity), and publications with actual content. Right now the net is awash with an ever-expanding tide of rubbish and there is very little to assist in finding the few really interesting and high quality publications amongst the garbage.
Ultimately it's depressing that, given the ability to communicate our ideas to anyone on earth, most of us can't come up with anything better than pictures of ourselves drinking too much and mass-produced but ineffectual rebelliousness.
Re:Narcissism (Score:2)
You must be new here.
Oh wait, were you talking about Myspace...? Sorry.
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Re:Narcissism (Score:2)
I basically ignore most of what would be considered a blog or newsboard anymore. They are awash with the ramblings of 17 year old conspiratists that believe they have a better understanding of things than someone with a degree in the subject.
It's just depressing that you have to waste large amounts of time crawling through nothing to find something of value.
I signed up for a myspace acct (Score:2)
Re:Narcissism (Score:2)
Re:Narcissism (Score:2)
No shit. That's why it's so popular with 13-21 year olds, who for the most part are also intensely narcissistic and inane.
Re:Narcissism (Score:5, Insightful)
The vast majority of people are merely average Joes. Everyone cannot be Einstein, nor can everyone be Crichton. That's just the way it is and the way it always will be. Most people don't post anything deeper because most people simply aren't deeper, and it's unlikely that they ever will be, in particular when they're born, raised, and socialized in a consumer orgy of a society that is itself incredibly inane.
Not only have most people in our culture never had a deep thought, but most of them have never even been exposed to a deep thought. Deep thoughts aren't good for markets, they tend to reduce superficiality and overconsumption, which are the two things the growth and maintenance of our society most depends on.
Re:Narcissism (Score:3, Funny)
God I hope not.
Re:Narcissism (Score:3, Insightful)
The vast majority of people are merely average Joes. Everyone cannot be Einstein, nor can everyone be Crichton. That's just the way it is and the way it always will be. Most people don't post anything deeper because most people simply aren't deeper, and it's unlikely that they ever will be, in particular when they're born, raised, and socialized in a consumer orgy of a society that is itself incredibly inane.
You know, had myspace been available in Einstein's day, I don't think he would have used it much.
Wel
Re:Narcissism (Score:5, Insightful)
I've got the same feeling (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Narcissism (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't want to sound to misanthropic, but if MySpace is inane, it's because people are inane. MySpace is merely a microcosm. Go out and listen to people talking. At work, at a bar, whatever. You're going to hear pointless rambling.
On a completely different tack... you're looking at what people publish, and maybe not looking at what people are reading on MySpace -- what they're getting out of it. That is a lot harder to figure out. What I found, when I signed up, was that it was a way to keep up with my local music scene. In that regard, it has been valuable .. or at least (heh) no more inane than the local music scene itself (which maybe isn't saying much, I can't make up my mind about that). I don't know why this one sector of the economy(?) or culture(?) is so well represented on that one website, but it just happens that most bands are on MySpace. And most of my time spent there, is looking to see when'n'where I'm going to be rocking-out next. Sometimes I wonder how much of MySpace traffic is accounted for, in people just looking at event-invites, checking bands' schedules, etc. The interface certainly isn't very efficient.
Re:Narcissism (Score:2)
Oh, I agree. That was really my point, made in a roundabout way. People, including me, mainly spew forth garbage. The blog craze has created an environment where there seems to be a belief that if you electronically record and publish this garbage, it somehow becomes worthwh
Pessimism (Score:5, Insightful)
The only difference now is that we have SEARCH ENGINES, computers, and instant communication to help us sort through the bullshit. People like you like to ignore the fact that if only 1 out of every 99 people posting to myspace create something worthwhile, thats one more worthwhile thing on the internet to be found and shared.
I believe the viral spread of information has not reached its full potential, myspace is a step in the right direction. Google and other search engines are helping too. You act as if removing the hundreds of worthless expressions are worth the cost of forgoing one worthwhile contribution. You conveniently forget that by reading slashdot you are getting a selection of top articles for discussion over thousands of "unworthy" articles submited a day.
I think the only reason people like you get depressed is because you dont understand the internet. You don't see how instant communication changes the way things work. We can't rely on an intellectual authority anymore to tell us what is good and bad. Millions of people on myspace are expressing themselves in ways they never knew they could, even if most of it is terrible html they are having a learning experience and real social interaction. You want to take all that away because its easy to dismiss as trash? Don't add them as your friends, don't even sign up for myspace. In fact you should probably stop visiting slashdot, it should depress you that so many articles get submitted that are worthless, wasting the editors time, and our time when one slips through. You'd rather not have slashdot and save the internet the trouble right?
Find this hard to believe. (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Find this hard to believe. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Find this hard to believe. (Score:5, Insightful)
Google has an efficient interface, so people aren't paging through lots of stuff trying to find what they're looking for. They aren't having to load a bunch of images that are unrelated to anything they're interested in, either.
With MySpace, if I want to find someone's schedule, I have to look at page after page of unsorted friends. I guess MySpace's programmers have decided that computers just aren't any good at sorting things. (And try using MySpace without loading images sometime, or with Javascript disabled.)
If the study was based on volume-of-traffic or number-of-http-requests, it doesn't surprise me MySpace came out on top. It takes an aweful lot of web pages transferred, to get anything done on there. Maybe it's so they can sell more ad impressions or something dumb like that (too bad I filter out the ads).
Re:Find this hard to believe. (Score:3, Informative)
MySpace replacement (Score:4, Funny)
Project Goal: Obtain "A Life" and do something with it once obtained.
Probability of success:
(World Population - Number of people on MySpace) / World Population
Really? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Really? (Score:2)
Well, at least you're not a victim... (emphasis added for those who wouldn't otherwise get the joke)
understanding myspace (Score:5, Interesting)
They are the "bread and circuses" of the information age. Feed em crap, keep em happy, and most of all keep their eyes and ears distracted from political and financial issues of the real world. Like them or hate them, you gotta admit theyre doing a hell of a job at pushing the hype. IMHO, it is truely amazing.
understanding your comment (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm sorry but this is not accurate. Myspace did a complete end run around the "old media" record companies. There are thousands of artists on there that would never have a shot at traditional distribution that are now leveraging the fact that they can be discov
Myspc Sux! LOL! (Score:3, Insightful)
The general anti myspace rhetoric is usually, "we can already have our own web pages", which labels myspace as a somewhat redundant service with advertisements.
What I rarely see about myspace, is what a brilliant idea it is. Not everyone knows how to create a website, but most people have the capacity, and interest to learn how to use myspace. Instead of looking down on myspacers perhaps those of us who know how to use the internet should learn how to cater to those who are not technically savvy. Isn't that the idea of selling technology? Making things that normally wouldn't be accessible to everyone accessible?
Of course, whenever one of my friends asks me if I have created a myspace page yet, I always reply by calling them a worthless tool. Weird eh?
Re:Myspc Sux! LOL! (Score:2)
What I rarely see about myspace, is what a brilliant idea it is.
When GeoCities offered the same thing circa '95, the called that "brilliant" too.
Now excuse me while I go "cyber-flirt" with some cop pretending to be a 16 year old girl with a trust fund.
The triumph of "old media" (Score:4, Insightful)
Alexa says that the top five sites today are, in order, Yahoo, MSN, Google, Myspace, and eBay. Of those, only Myspace is owned by an "old media" company, and only Myspace is growing significantly. This may be the first time that a top Internet site was owned by an "old media" company. (Myspace is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation [www.newscorp]). It makes sense; Myspace is to the Internet as tabloid journalism is to the newspaper industry. News Corp now has a leading position in both.
Orkut (Score:2)
There is a lesson to be learned here, my friends.. (Score:2)
Observation on Microsoft re: MySpace (Score:5, Interesting)
And now, a startup is the #1 site (or even if you question the numbers, pretty obviously in the top five) and there is nothing Microsoft has to show.
Sure, you can say Microsoft makes its money in other places, they're an OS/app company, etc. but they sure spend a lot of money on MSN, trying to get more Internet eyeballs. To me, an outside observer, it just seems that they are eternally reactionary and a couple years behind, despite having practically unlimited resources. What an indictment.
Re:Observation on Microsoft re: MySpace (Score:2)
This is a very good point. Ballmer was sitting on more than enough cash circa July '05 to outbid News Corp. It really makes you wonder why they didn't bother.
Prediction: (Score:5, Funny)
The NEW Internet (Score:3, Insightful)
I saw a movie preview yesterday on tv where it didn't list a website, but a myspace address. It may be a good thing that your content provider will become a social networking site, so you could look at your content in virtually the same way on every computer which is connected.
But doing the same thing the same way as everyone else isn't what being a nerd is all about, right?
Car Crash (Score:2)
That said, there are a number of top folks in lots of musical/artistic/etc displinines who realize that its a decent way to provide a forum for their fans. (For me, its the number of top flight DMC DJs and Ninja Tunes artists who offer free videos and music across the site.) I wonder if that will stop if it becomes too
And what percentage of the traffic is bots? (Score:4, Interesting)
It is kind of interesting that myspace seems to hold up under all the spam, even though they don't seem to do much about it (or are at least losing the war badly)
Hmm, time to go check out freshmeat for a myspace invite script.
And the worst part about it... (Score:2)
I'm totally gonna go emo!
quickly QOS limit their line ... (Score:2)
I guess I hereby welcome our dark web2.0 lords in our vicinity
3.7 billion page view per day (Score:4, Informative)
Re:3.7 billion page view per day (Score:5, Informative)
This is an interesting one. MySpace is written in ColdFusion but actually runs on the
So what we have currently is a situation where:
1. Adobe can't really claim that MySpace is running ColdFusion because it's running in
2. Microsoft isn't really crowing about MySpace running
Traffic counts visits, not amount of interest (Score:2)
Seriously, if you try to use MySpace on a Mac, you'll be luck to get three pages deep (not counting intersititals) before your browser gives up.
MySpace better milk it while they got it, because running their site like that means it isn't going to be popular long. The teen market is notoriously fickle and they have shorter atte
Reason for popularity (Score:2, Interesting)
"Seeing a 4300% increase in visits in just two..." (Score:4, Insightful)
Like that would mean anything. Anyway, a few more dozen
Re:"Seeing a 4300% increase in visits in just two. (Score:5, Funny)
That would only be an increase of 4200%.
MySpace has only just begun. (Score:5, Insightful)
Recently, slashdot ran this article [cnn.com] about Ask.com's growing market share. CEO Jim Lanzone has complained that his service is superior to competitors, but has not yet approached the market share of the Google-ocracy. The reason? Like Xerox before it, Google has become a part of our common venacular in 2006 (to google, I googled it, etc). Some expect Google will remain on top for this reason alone, others claim that superior technology is how Google became #1 in the first place, and so, Ask.com has a chance.
So what does this have to do with MySpace? MySpace currently finds itself in a similar position; unlike rivals such as Facebook or Friendster (remember them?) their market share is simply in a league all its own. I also see another important difference which secures this position for MySpace- when trying another search engine, my total expended time equals about 10 seconds; type, click, go. I don't need to register for anything, and my experience is dependant on nothing more than the latest search algorithms. With a social network, I must invest a significant amount of time in order to setup my profile, and the experience is dependant on how many friends (or similar-minded people) I can find also using the service. Once I have become comfortable using one service, I might be hesitant to "start over" at another, especially if none of my friends were using it either.
Simply put: we have seen, and will continue to see "MySpace killers" and "MySpace clones" boasting the latest AJAX-happy Web 2.0 goodness; but will the users of MySpace take notice? If they notice, will they care enough to make a switch?
MySpace is a very powerful web brand, and I for one think it has only just begun. If I were Rubert Murdoch, I would begin expanding the resources and revenue streams availble to it. When will "MySpace Records" begin distribution in the major retail outlets? And what about tv? How many pilot episodes is fox sitting on right now? Why allow a boardroom to make those decisions? The users on MySpace could do a better job selecting the next "big hit", all without expecting one red cent in compensation! After all, how many of these same users will be buying these same shows on DVD next year?
As MySpace has shown us: we a nation of aspiring and puedo-celebrities. In MySpace I see the potential for hundreds of new reality tv shows, dozens of new animated series, thousands of screenplays...I could go on and on. Properly managed, MySpace can, and I believe will, become a self-sustaining, media-generating, media-consuming machine.
I just realized... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I just realized... (Score:3, Interesting)
I can't agree more.
Sounds Familiar (Score:4, Insightful)
In, oh, probably 1998 or so, I heard from a friend who worked at a tier-1 ISP that fully 2% of their total backbone traffic was to Geocities. This horrified us at the time, that such a huge portion of the 'net was devoted to people's crappy animated flame HR gifs.
As we all know, Geocites then went on to conquer the Internet.
Oh great, more bandwidth wastage (Score:4, Interesting)
However this leads me to wonder how much bandwidth myspace is sucking from non-myspace servers just so users can have pretty background pages and other assorted images. Helping support Rupert Murdoch isn't something I'm happy to waste bandwidth on.
heh (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:heh (Score:3, Interesting)
In short, like instant messaging before it, it's destroying literacy. Capitalization. Punctuation. Proper pluralization. Most importantly, sentence structure and paragraphs. All seem to be missing from 99% of MySpace pages.
It took me a few minutes to decipher just what it was you were trying to say with "perhaps having a pc/mac/net
Re:noooooooo!! (Score:2)
I knew it! Al Gore is the Ghost in the Machine!
Re:Not again (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not again (Score:2)
Problem with that: slashdot isn't one of the top five...(!)
Wonderful post! (Score:3, Insightful)