It's too late for Myspace
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It's too late for Myspace
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Re: It's too late for Myspace
#2It didn't help that most customized profiles ate more CPU than running Quake. MySpace users discovered the worst CSS practices, or was it the "get MySpace codes" sites?
Re: It's too late for Myspace
#3I think myspace is still a viable place for a musician to set up an online presence.
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#4My tattoo artist told me that MySpace was the place to be for that industry. This was kind of interesting as I could see the appeal, but I wonder if that will fade as well as it seems to be for musicians..
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#5I think myspace is still a viable place for a musician to set up an online presence.
Unfortunately, I have to disagree (and time and numbers are proving me right). Once I had the idea of scraping visitor numbers for major musicians every day in order to trace how their profile views were affected by the rise of Twitter and Facebook, but never did. It is, however, quite visible.
If you're a musician, Myspace simply doesn't give you the tools to provide your audience updates the way they want to consume them. Their twitter-like stream is limited to the internal homepage that you can see while logged in, which doesn't make sense. People want real-time and Myspace doesn't give them that.
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#6My tattoo artist told me that MySpace was the place to be for that industry. This was kind of interesting as I could see the appeal, but I wonder if that will fade as well as it seems to be for musicians..
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#7I think myspace is still a viable place for a musician to set up an online presence.
MySpace's strong area is still in bands and artists. Myspace should have freemium CMS tools so that these artists can have their own domain with interactivity similar to the way Ning encourages you to roll-you-own social network.
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#8I think myspace is still a viable place for a musician to set up an online presence.
Facebook's got a My Band app, works just as well and Facebook has a much better feature for promoting the page to personal friends.
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#9My tattoo artist told me that MySpace was the place to be for that industry. This was kind of interesting as I could see the appeal, but I wonder if that will fade as well as it seems to be for musicians..
I would say it'll fade too. The audience for tattoo artists overlaps with the audience for musicians (or anything else, really) which is quickly fading. Once a few tattoo artists start moving over to other forms of personal/brand promotion, your tattoo artist friend will probably move too.
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#10I disagree. It may be too late for Myspace to be Facebook, but any business with an audience, no matter what size, has potential. Many struggling businesses would kill to have a fraction of Myspace's brand awareness; to make a left turn and have someone care.
Instead of losing hair wondering why people are leaving in droves, they should reverse their attitude and kick people out.
They should go very narrow, maybe create a premium service priced to almost insult people, and and play up the privacy angle.
Or, be what Facebook was and probably should have stayed; an easy to use student-only network.