An end to Myspace? - Web standards, accessibility and coding techniques by Stephen Tucker

An end to Myspace?

19th June 2006

Ever since it's launch MySpace has been attracting the attention of admirers. Rupert Murdock in particular was so impressed that he purchased the community hotspot for a whopping 580 million US dollars in 2005.

However it seems even MySpace has growing new rivals on it's horizons. Media giant AOL has announced its next generation social networking service, based on it's already popular AOL Instant Messenger, which will include blogging, file sharing and music facilities. Meanwhile our own BBC also plans to expand its current online presence to encompass a similar set of features around it's current provision of daily information.

Could we be seeing the beginning of the end of MySpace?

Comments

1. On Tuesday 20th of June 2006 Elessar said:

   MySpace is like an infection...im hoping a cure is found soon...

2. On Friday 23rd of June 2006 JPhill said:

   I think that depends on what services are being brought to the table with other social networks. And although the average page looks like complete crap, the users love that you can customize it to fit their individual likes and personalities.
   
   MySpace already offers blogging, and media stuff, so unless any other service brings something that will make the users feel like it's apart of them, they won't jump over MySpace, nor will the users leave. They already have a home.

3. On Saturday 24th of June 2006 akhedar said:

   une femme tres belle sexy

4. On Saturday 24th of June 2006 P.J. Onori said:

   I cannot express how much I hope so. I fail to see many positive derivatives of MySpace and its community.
   
   Here's to a quick demise to MySpace.

5. On Sunday 25th of June 2006 Josh Beam said:

   MySpace will die!

6. On Sunday 25th of June 2006 Rik Lomas said:

   I agree with JPhill here. MySpace does it's job well - it's a community website with millions of users, so it's successful. I know us web geeks don't like MySpace due to bad code, bad designs, etc. but why would the majority of people care about these things when all their friends and favourite bands are on there?
   
   All these new rivals are obviously in it to get money. AOL and BBC need to realise that you can't just bolt on community features and expect to sit back and wait for people to use them.
   
   Stop being such snobs about MySpace.

7. On Thursday 29th of June 2006 Damien said:

   I really never liked MySpace, and couldn't care if it left, to be honest. =P

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