Comments on: MySpace is Dead! Long Live MySpace! http://www.drama20show.com/2007/06/29/myspace-is-dead-long-live-myspace/ Keeping Tech Sexy Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:05:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: SutroStyle http://www.drama20show.com/2007/06/29/myspace-is-dead-long-live-myspace/comment-page-1/#comment-15 SutroStyle Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:43:10 +0000 http://www.drama20show.com/2007/06/29/myspace-is-dead-long-live-myspace/#comment-15 I followed you here from Techcrunch because I believe you are the most interesting commenter there. I think the guys who run business dev. at Facebook (Accel partners) are not stupid, they have a gut feeling that this 2.0 “Summer of Love” as you put it may end soon. The API and other hype things are in part PR stunts to sell it while it lasts. We happen to run a non-VC funded company with nearly 1 m registered users that web 2.0 crowd does not know about. In fact our worst fear is to get on Techcrunch. We have widgets too. Currently the kids that are chucking our code into myspace are looking for the embed code, not for an API, although maybe Zukerberg will change that. I just want to notice that pasting widget codes still WORKS in Myspace and DOES NOT work in Facebook, even after their API is out. I followed you here from Techcrunch because I believe you are the most interesting commenter there.

I think the guys who run business dev. at Facebook (Accel partners) are not stupid, they have a gut feeling that this 2.0 “Summer of Love” as you put it may end soon. The API and other hype things are in part PR stunts to sell it while it lasts.
We happen to run a non-VC funded company with nearly 1 m registered users that web 2.0 crowd does not know about. In fact our worst fear is to get on Techcrunch. We have widgets too. Currently the kids that are chucking our code into myspace are looking for the embed code, not for an API, although maybe Zukerberg will change that. I just want to notice that pasting widget codes still WORKS in Myspace and DOES NOT work in Facebook, even after their API is out.

]]> By: Drama 2.0 http://www.drama20show.com/2007/06/29/myspace-is-dead-long-live-myspace/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Drama 2.0 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:10:17 +0000 http://www.drama20show.com/2007/06/29/myspace-is-dead-long-live-myspace/#comment-13 Facebook has certainly played the PR game well but anybody who knows how PR works understands that what gets reported isn't always a perfect reflection of reality. Facebook has made some strategic moves that may look significant and wise to some, but I think when one evaluates the numbers and analyzes the situation logically, these moves are less significant than they might appear and the extent to which they are wise has yet to be determined. Facebook has certainly played the PR game well but anybody who knows how PR works understands that what gets reported isn’t always a perfect reflection of reality. Facebook has made some strategic moves that may look significant and wise to some, but I think when one evaluates the numbers and analyzes the situation logically, these moves are less significant than they might appear and the extent to which they are wise has yet to be determined.

]]> By: Michael Camilleri http://www.drama20show.com/2007/06/29/myspace-is-dead-long-live-myspace/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Michael Camilleri Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:03:24 +0000 http://www.drama20show.com/2007/06/29/myspace-is-dead-long-live-myspace/#comment-12 Duncan Riley's posts have bugged me for some time but the Facebook one takes the cake. I would actually agree that MySpace is trying to play 'catch up' but <strong>only</strong> in the realm of the tech literati perception. To suggest that these are the people that count is ludicrous and he's rightly flamed for as long as that ridiculous line stays up in the OP. As one of the TechCrunch commenters pointed out, techies are not the people that count and they're currently the ones enamoured with the F8 platform. MySpace clearly would like some of the good press that Facebook has been getting in the mainstream media but that's a far cry from quaking in their boots. Duncan Riley’s posts have bugged me for some time but the Facebook one takes the cake. I would actually agree that MySpace is trying to play ‘catch up’ but only in the realm of the tech literati perception. To suggest that these are the people that count is ludicrous and he’s rightly flamed for as long as that ridiculous line stays up in the OP.

As one of the TechCrunch commenters pointed out, techies are not the people that count and they’re currently the ones enamoured with the F8 platform. MySpace clearly would like some of the good press that Facebook has been getting in the mainstream media but that’s a far cry from quaking in their boots.

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