While many have written off MySpace as an ailing behemoth of social networks past, the site is hoping to reanimate their users by defining the site as a new platform for venting creativity. Echoing their early days as a community of young bands, MySpace wants to reposition itself as a place for young creatives, rather than a disorganized collection of companies, bands and individuals all spamming one another.
Creating a tighter demographic will certainly put a direction on the site, but it remains to be seen if it can compete with the readily updated features on Facebook. Anastasia from Ypulse predicts MySpace can make a comeback if it can achieve these goals,
- apply what he learned from Facebook and improve the user experience on MySpace (and control the spam)
- streamline and simplify while offering templates flexible enough for creative types to still make the space their own, and easily find likeminded “friends” and “fans” based on their creative interests/entertainment tastes
- continue to offer exclusive content nobody else has first (New Moon trailer, youth focused webisodes)
- leverage their planned “data-focused features” as a part of MySpace music, “publish[ing] trends, track[ing] influencers and creat[ing] lists of top-played and playlisted content of not only major bands and artists but also of all the independent work on millions of MySpace artist pages”
[via Ypulse]
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Never before in the history of mankind has it been easier to reach out to people all over the world. Online communitieslike MySpace, make meeting new friends with similar interests incredibly easy. MySpace is a great place to share tips, ideas and stories about the things you find most interesting. If you have a question about your hobby, you can easily find the answer through your network of members with similar interests.
James
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July 29th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
taking a PR statement from elsewhere:
‘MySpace won’t just be focusing on music as its attraction but on all creative areas. He doesn’t want the company to be backed into one corner,…’
that’s fine and dandy but restricting it by age (16 to 30) IS backing it into one of those corners.
i defy the term ‘youth creativity’ as defined by your physical age–it’s just a fucking number. rather the term should be defined by how fresh and relevant it is to the market. for example, marriage isn’t directly applicable to the majority of 16 year-olds out there but it’s creativity and relevancy obviously is. peep this, this made my day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0
August 3rd, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Knoyce will be the next stop for all those tired of Facebook and Myspace. Knoyce has officially launched it’s new network to the public @ http://www.knoyce.com
August 4th, 2009 at 9:25 am