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:: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 ::

Sit on MySpace

SIT ON MYSPACE
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A Forum Conversation about MySpace and possible alternatives gave me leave to consider its benefits and the difficulties in competing with it. My thoughts were as follows:

MySpace is an irritating rash of groin fungus and it's not going away, you just have to live with it.

What it allows you to do, networking wise, is essential in these super connected days. It's unfortunate that it is owned by a cock, is difficult to control and is over run with ads and spam. But despite that there's just no way any alternative is going to get off the ground without the user base.

An alternative networking system, should one ever have a chance of replacing it, would have to overcome all of these problems. To do that it would need the following:

1. Less intrusive advertising in a free version (cf Google AdSense) and no advertising at all in a paid for premium version.

2. Better user control and configuration, ability to embed into an existing site through scripting or use the systems own servers (cf Blogger)

3. Open API (Application Programming Interface) for integration across sites (cf Google, Flickr etc). Basically it needs to embrace Web2.0

4. Huge user base. The only way I can see this happening is if the API is good enough to allow existing myspace / google / blogger / flickr / yahoo / msn etc users to integrate all of their accounts in someway, rather than try to build a new user base from scratch.

If you are capable of providing this, please get coding. (Although I assume someone is doing it somewhere already.)

Labels: myspace, SocialNetworking, web 2.0

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