http://www.klintron.com/brain/archives/2007/06/17/myspace-the-next-prodigy/ security, surveillance, networks, and life in the panopticon Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:00:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.klintron.com/brain/archives/2007/06/17/myspace-the-next-prodigy/#comment-25505 Abe Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:30:59 +0000 http://www.klintron.com/brain/archives/2007/06/17/myspace-the-next-prodigy/#comment-25505 heh, that's where I thought myspace was going last year, drowning in it's own self generated spam. Still might happen, but it has a few things going for it. One is the networks themselves. It's hard to regenerate those things, Friendster had a long ass exodus, yet it still stabilized to a core set of networks that had invested too much in it to move elsewhere. The other is the "my" part, it might be an ass backwards process, but you can really own your myspace page visually in a way that facebook's squeaky clean design just won't allow. I'm seeing more and more bands and photographer's who have their own urls that basically just point to their myspace page... And sometimes it'll take a while before you can even tell the page you land on is actually a myspace... heh, that’s where I thought myspace was going last year, drowning in it’s own self generated spam. Still might happen, but it has a few things going for it. One is the networks themselves. It’s hard to regenerate those things, Friendster had a long ass exodus, yet it still stabilized to a core set of networks that had invested too much in it to move elsewhere. The other is the “my” part, it might be an ass backwards process, but you can really own your myspace page visually in a way that facebook’s squeaky clean design just won’t allow. I’m seeing more and more bands and photographer’s who have their own urls that basically just point to their myspace page… And sometimes it’ll take a while before you can even tell the page you land on is actually a myspace…

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