techcrunch.com— TechCrunch is reporting that MySpace and Yahoo are in talks to merge, with MySpace getting 25% of the combined company's stock. That values MySpace at a cool $12 billion.
Jun 20, 2007View in Crawl 4
I know I'll get buried to oblivion for disagreeing with people, but here's my view.MySpace IS worth $12 Billion because of user numbers, but not quality. This makes its validity really poor, as once you've forked out all that cash for MySpace, all you're left with is a broken product.Now, think back to Blogger. It was purchased by Google and received a MAJOR overhaul. The underlying technology was modified and good design prevailed, with huge names in the Web Development industry lending a hand. Now, loads of people look to Blogger for their blogging needs over many other mediums.Yahoo is comprised of great developers, and if any companies aside from Google and MS are able to turn MySpace around, it's Yahoo. I'd even go as far as to say that Yahoo should let it all go on MySpace. Buy it out, give it a full redesign, and make it a Facebook killer from the start with the things Facebook doesn't have. Free music, big names, and a mammoth community.As much as everyone likes to think Facebook is going to destroy MySpace, it probably will, but in turn it will suffer the same thing that every popular website does, like Digg, MySpace, and YTMND, it will fill up with little kids, looking to turn it into what they turned those sites into. It's happening to Facebook already! On many peoples profiles I see loads of s**t apps, like Rate Me, Hot Or Not, SuperPoke, Emoticons, Audio, Glitter Text, etc. What makes this any better than MySpace? If anything, it's become worse than MySpace in terms of privacy. The worst thing Facebook ever done was open itself up to public development (and the public in general), because when you're trying to make something look nice and professional, you need nice professionals to work on it. It's the curse of Web 2.0.Facebook is in a coma at the moment. All it'll take is a few more lame apps (how long until we get an app that'll redesign peoples Facebook pages, MySpace style), a few more users, and Facebook will be as dead as MySpace.
endermbJun 20, 2007
I know I'll get buried to oblivion for disagreeing with people, but here's my view.MySpace IS worth $12 Billion because of user numbers, but not quality. This makes its validity really poor, as once you've forked out all that cash for MySpace, all you're left with is a broken product.Now, think back to Blogger. It was purchased by Google and received a MAJOR overhaul. The underlying technology was modified and good design prevailed, with huge names in the Web Development industry lending a hand. Now, loads of people look to Blogger for their blogging needs over many other mediums.Yahoo is comprised of great developers, and if any companies aside from Google and MS are able to turn MySpace around, it's Yahoo. I'd even go as far as to say that Yahoo should let it all go on MySpace. Buy it out, give it a full redesign, and make it a Facebook killer from the start with the things Facebook doesn't have. Free music, big names, and a mammoth community.As much as everyone likes to think Facebook is going to destroy MySpace, it probably will, but in turn it will suffer the same thing that every popular website does, like Digg, MySpace, and YTMND, it will fill up with little kids, looking to turn it into what they turned those sites into. It's happening to Facebook already! On many peoples profiles I see loads of s**t apps, like Rate Me, Hot Or Not, SuperPoke, Emoticons, Audio, Glitter Text, etc. What makes this any better than MySpace? If anything, it's become worse than MySpace in terms of privacy. The worst thing Facebook ever done was open itself up to public development (and the public in general), because when you're trying to make something look nice and professional, you need nice professionals to work on it. It's the curse of Web 2.0.Facebook is in a coma at the moment. All it'll take is a few more lame apps (how long until we get an app that'll redesign peoples Facebook pages, MySpace style), a few more users, and Facebook will be as dead as MySpace.
nadareJun 20, 2007
MySpace is like the Geocities of this generation.
droweJun 20, 2007
...and, well, porn.You're all thinking it, I just said it.
lolcollegeJun 20, 2007
Not to me
robopimp3000Jun 20, 2007
Google already has a deal with Myspace. I guess they beat Yahoo to the business of spammers, child molestors, and 12 year old emos.
burndiveJun 20, 2007
Anything that can contain that much crap, preventing it from entering other parts of the Internet, is worth twice that much, any day of the week.
rauzJun 21, 2007
@misdirek7ed: so just "one" basic s**t or are we speaking turds here?