Am I Missing Something Part II
Way late in weighing in on this as well, but maybe I can learn something.
How is MySpace ‘opening up it’s platform’ a big deal? Or, maybe asked another way, isn’t MySpace already open?
Like 8-lane freeway open? Facebook opening their platform is kind of cool but they only did that because they had security in the first place.
Isn’t Adobe Flash the platform of the Internet?
What possibly could MySpace do to ‘open up their platform’? Provide easier methods to get people’s friends so that the applicaiton can mail them an invite? You can already do that via crawling web pages. People already spam MySpace users.
How can one open up chaos a second time? (I am not saying chaos is bad just that by definition, it’s already open).
I just think that social network applications have already thrived on MySpace (Youtube, Photobucket, Slide et al) and in each of those cases they built businesses and direct destinations before selling out even if they made nothing on the widgets themselves.
There is just a huge focal disconnect between Facebook applications and MySpace users using widgets. They are the same thing. Just people like talking about the former more than the later.
I think MySpace is the most important social network. But it’s already open and the only thing MySpace can do is say we wont shut you down if you have ads. Or am I missing something? Please let me know.
Widgets on myspace do not tie into user data. There are no easy referral mechanisms. You can not “play your friends” or superpoke your friends” or “write on your friends wall” because apps dont tie between people well (or in most cases at all). And given people use these sites to interact with one other, this is very important.
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