my |_______| going down fast
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- dbloc0
just not relevant anymore....When we do social media for clients it never involves mySpace...That's a problem for them.
- instrmntl0
Facebook hype will fade
Indeed, 11 years ago this week, when AOL announced its $350 billion merger with Time Warner, I was asked to write an OpEd for the New York Times explaining what the deal between old and new media companies really meant. I said that AOL was cashing in its over-valued dotcom stock in order to purchase a stake in a "real" media company with movie studios, theme parks and even cable. In short, the deal meant AOL knew their reign was over.
The Times didn't run the piece. Of course, the merger turned out to be a disaster: AOL's revenue stream was reduced to a trickle as net users ventured out onto the Web directly.
Facebook really worth $50 billion?
Facebook's 2011 plans: Hackers wantedLikewise, Rupert Murdoch's 2005 purchase of MySpace for $580 million coincided pretty much exactly with the website's peak of popularity. People blamed corporate ownership for the social network's demise, but the cycle had already begun.
- DRIFTMONKEY0
Anyone else use MySpace to sample bands you just discover? Ever since lala sent down, I use it way more often.
- *went downDRIFTMONKEY
- yup and purevolume. glad myspace fixed the banner that would shutoff the player********
- soundcloud and bandcamp are better for that IMHO.sublocked
- SteveJobs0
they had their chance. when they brought on an entire new exec team (owen van natta, mike jones, etc) to run the biz, that's when things got really bad. none of these guys had an idea of what made myspace so popular to begin with - music. it's too late now, so good riddance. i deleted my account a long time ago.
- raf0
They should've sticked to their niche—music.
Just wondering, have they ever had a MySpace festival, with 100% unknown bands chosen by users? If not, they hired wrong people, i.e. not me.
- I'm not sure people want to see unknown bands no one has heard of, you think so?********
- Have people vote for online. Sure, throw in some known performers.raf
- I'm not sure people want to see unknown bands no one has heard of, you think so?
- Glitterati_Duane0
I interview musicians and most of them direct me to myspace pages. I don't know one "normal" person who still bothers to update theirs though.
- ********0
They waited too long to update the damn site.
Plus I hear "Tom" got drunk on wealth and power and went on extended cocaine binges while molesting employees.
- Sounds like fun...sublocked
- I heard that too. All those myspace sluts putting out...don't blame him********
- Sitting in a heavily fortified room with pile of coke Scarface style...********
- think about all those gangsta rappers who want to take him out and take the top myspace posiion********
- ********0
myspace has around 1000 employees!?! what the fuck do they do all day? how on earth could they need that many people?
- Well turns out they only need 530********
- i think there are more employees than people with myspace accounts.CanHasQBN
- Well turns out they only need 530
- ********0
I don't read this as myspace gong down I read it as them sliming down operations after it reached its saturation point and did a redesign. They still can make money just not as much.
- ********0
hopefully they lay off the sob that keeps spamming the qoob
- SteveJobs0
betelgeuse, in 2008 myspace was THE most popular site on the internet. you'd be surprised what it takes to manage a social networking behemoth like that. from marketing, to biz dev, to sales to QA, development. web development can further be broken down into many parts such as localization, mobile, and all the different parts of the site like movies, music, profiles, etc.. all of these pieces need product managers, project managers, etc. it all adds up quickly.
- fair enough. it just seems a bit crazy.********
- oh, it is. it's quite excessive. but that's how big corporations roll.SteveJobs
- I function is much the same way. over 1200 employees and rising here @ Dodecahedron HQ********
- fair enough. it just seems a bit crazy.
- ********0
I think at some point _____ convinced themselves the user experience didn't matter. They could have this slow-loading page whose code read like it was written like a 5 year old unsuccessfully trying to learn HTML and it was all be fine...because they are fuckin' MySpace, yo!
Even now with the redesign the page take like 5 minutes to load. Does anyone think MySpace has any semblance of a user experience/design team in place? Facebook on the other hand has made major changes, even at the risk of pissing off its users.
- SteveJobs0
abettertomorrow, myspace didn't have a good product development team. their ideas were largely borrowed, and there was little innovation until their numbers started slipping.
their page loading issues were due to the insane amount of code it took to render the pages. the profile page's heavy parse engines were too unwieldy and difficult to scale which bogged the site down, particularly when attemting to render profiles laden with tons of content/media.
- ********0
I want my social networking profile to live on a webserver embedded in my mobile phone - the info would be completely mine .. and I could have full control over who accesses it.
- ********0
Well this is true, undoubtably the back end of the site was a total disaster as well. I actually had a profile on there but it got completely erased for no apparent reason one day:)
But I guess what I'm getting at is that there was this kind of idea around that none of that user experience stuff mattered. Remember how many people, in that second wave of dot coms, would point to MySpace and Google and say, design doesn't matter, look at these insanely popular sites with shit design? But this idea has been proven false.
- SteveJobs0
no, you're right. it mattered to many there, just not to the people who decided what mattered: the execs. to bottom line it, myspace was always about quantity over quality. it tried to be everything to everyone and with that kind of approach, terms like user experience, and usability are never mentioned, much less thought of.
- ********0
i want my social networking profile to live on government servers which could track my whereabouts at all times. I don't want to control anything as that would be the government's job. I want it to tell me what is right and wrong, good and bad. I also want it to give me the illusion that I have freedom as long as I can be one of its sheep.
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- ********0
"quantity over quality"
I remember being harassed by friends to make an account when it was first getting really popular, but I never did. Couldn't get past how incredibly ugly and disorganized it is.