Too little, too late. Their brand is tarnished forever and they'll never recover.
soon it will have retro caché
I think this is actually possible. Aren't we all tired of Facebook and twitter, and waiting for the next big thing?
Myspace previews complete redesign
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#132The preview looks great. I just don't understand why anyone would come back to something they've already moved on from to do things they're already doing elsewhere. That said, I genuinely wish them the best of luck! :-)
There's a burgeoning disenfranchisement with Facebook IMO. People for whom Facebook is getting tired and old and for whom the interface is a drag may well be perfectly placed to jump [back]. This does look like they've refocussed back to the roots (?) of MySpace and gone tailored things towards bands/music again.
It would be interesting to see MySpace really attack Facebook by having a really really good privacy agreement etc, but if it's too nice they'll have the same monetization issues that Facebook does.
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#133Too little, too late. Their brand is tarnished forever and they'll never recover.
Meh, the kids won't care. If some popular people use it because it's way more fun and exciting than shitty old Facebook, (plus they hear the odd story about how fun the old MySpace was) then it could get it's foot in the door.
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#134Too little, too late. Their brand is tarnished forever and they'll never recover.
Meh, the kids won't care. If some popular people use it because it's way more fun and exciting than shitty old Facebook, (plus they hear the odd story about how fun the old MySpace was) then it could get it's foot in the door.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or you could just use the features you want to use and try to fail gracefully when you can't. (Old IE could be a special case, as it is solid chunk of FUBAR.)
Sure, you could do that if you had unlimited developer time and people using old browsers are an important market. but that isn't always reality, you've got to choose where to focus your efforts.
No, you don't need unlimited developer time to do feature detection. It's just good practice, after it's ingrained it doesn't take any more time than not doing it.
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#136Nice artist dashboard - Good to see focus on the artist too.
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#137As a computer scientist and an Opera user this actually insults me: http://i.imgur.com/7k0bN.png Ironically Opera was the one who proposed the -tag which this site uses for it's rotating LP, in 2007. [1] Way to exclude users. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video#History_of_.3Cvideo...
I can so relate. The first startup I joined post Sun was a place called GolfWeb, which was a website dedicated to Golf enthusiasts and it was, in 1995, the top dedicated Golf site on the Internet. We had all sorts of Java plans, except only a few of the people coming to the site had Java, and RealAudio plans, but the same story. The great masses were all AOL customers it seemed and not all of them had a browser that could display tables correctly!
As publishing site you had to shoot for the lowest common denominator in order to reach the most customers. That is still a good strategy, sites that can shrug off features that aren't supported but still get the message across. Maybe MySpace will get that message.
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#138The song is oddly appropriate. Who am I to say I want you back? When you were never mine to give away. I was waiting for a long, long time for you to feel the same.
I know the guy who picked the song. He was still securing it Friday and telling me he had to get it, that it was perfect. I agree. ;)
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Excuses, excuses ... Detecting required features by browser identification is not only so 90's, it's downright ridiculous. All it takes to detect websockets is: if ('WebSocket' in window) { /* Web Sockets supported / } else { / Web Sockets not supported */ } Ironically, this was taken from: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/introducing-web-sockets/ Also, every web developer with half a brain can use https://github.c…
It's not about detecting features. It's about testing: When you're developing a web app, each new browser you choose to support increases your testing time: starting out developing for chrome, adding safari support usually is just a formality. adding firefox support means a couple extra hours of testing, but everything usually works. adding opera support means your tests are going to start failing, and a bunch more w…
"Hey friend, it looks like you are using Opera. Beware, pal, that we don't go to the opera down here on the ranch, so there may be rough-riding ahead! Try one of these nifty browsers buddy, or sally forth into the unknown. OK, pardner?"
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
About to post the exact same thing http://i.imgur.com/DO5Kb.png And what's with the condescending list? Excuse my vulgarity but the page managed to be insulting, clueless, and factually inaccurate all at the same time. Here's how it reads to me: a) Fuck you. b) Fuck you. c) Yes I do, a big technology company where I can install whatever software I need working on harder technical problems than getting Myspace working…
Yeah, I always take snarky lists like this as an attempt to be hip or edgy, it fails both attempts here and just makes me think the developer, or whoever came up with that copy, an idiot. One thing is certain, they're not in possession of any ability in the comedy realm.
To quote the patron saint of Hacker News, patio11: If you don't like it, maybe you aren't in their target market.
Do you think you are in MySpace's target market?