Dear Myspace, please hire me. I'll make you be like Facebook.
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Re: Dear Myspace, please hire me. I'll make you be like Facebook.
#2Nifty job application. The redesigned page looks much nicer too.
Of course Myspace's problems extend far beyond their UI to the fact that they're owned by Newscorp and are attempting to compete against internet startups while encumbered by a hefty corporate bureaucracy.
Re: Dear Myspace, please hire me. I'll make you be like Facebook.
#3Too bad he said he made it in "under an hour", which you can also see in the profile mockup: no hover on icons, awkward positioning. If he would've spent a day on it, it would probably look even better. Plus: it would signal a bigger commitment than this one.
Re: Dear Myspace, please hire me. I'll make you be like Facebook.
#4Just wondering why people think this deserves to be on the front page of hackernews. Although it is interesting I don't think every persons ideas of redesigning popular sites, is hardly news worthy. In my opinion he put forth a good effort, is no where near the quality needed.
Re: Dear Myspace, please hire me. I'll make you be like Facebook.
#5Myspace could hire anyone to make their site look like Facebook. It's not gonna save them.
Re: Dear Myspace, please hire me. I'll make you be like Facebook.
#6I would say, "MySpace hiring paradox: we want reasonable people, but reasonable people wouldn't apply," but there are lots of people out there. Some like to help innovate, some like to help catch up -- and there's a lot of catching up to do.
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#7Too bad he said he made it in "under an hour", which you can also see in the profile mockup: no hover on icons, awkward positioning. If he would've spent a day on it, it would probably look even better. Plus: it would signal a bigger commitment than this one.
could be a good thing. it shows that he gets stuff done over anything else. if the idea is good, they could iterate on it further.
Re: Dear Myspace, please hire me. I'll make you be like Facebook.
#8Nifty job application. The redesigned page looks much nicer too. Of course Myspace's problems extend far beyond their UI to the fact that they're owned by Newscorp and are attempting to compete against internet startups while encumbered by a hefty corporate bureaucracy.
Makes me think back to the american airlines incident when the designer was like I have 6 on my own designs lying around which will never see the light of day.
Corporate bureaucracy was part of the reason they got into the mess they are in, and with the recent CEO resignation this shows little signs of being changed.
Myspace's strength is the bands which use it, that's what they should be focusing on, the social networking side if it is largely dead.
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#9Just wondering why people think this deserves to be on the front page of hackernews. Although it is interesting I don't think every persons ideas of redesigning popular sites, is hardly news worthy. In my opinion he put forth a good effort, is no where near the quality needed.
"this is my job application"
This guy's resume and professional contact list together are shorter than this sentence, at least 1 in 10 people in this country can't find any suitable work, and he just landed a fantastic job interview -- completely bypassing any crumby HR dept -- for a position they might not have known they had open.
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#10Needs before and after screenshots, not just after. I have no idea what myspace looks like :-)