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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+42I must say, the layout is a whole lot nicer than that of MySpace.
- headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+39It does look nicer, but one of the reasons people like Myspace is they can make their personal pages as ugly as they want. AOL's service might attract more "professional" people, but Myspace will still be the home for all the bands and kiddies who want full control over the look of their pages. Even when they make god-awful ugly pages.
Then again it's possible that the person who created that AIM page simply had some class. Maybe AOL's thing will be fully configurable. - ajb2015, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28@wayjer
You mean the music that I quickly "pause" upon visiting any damn myspace page? - Technopundit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28Another "Myspace killer"???
When will the violence END??? - judgeFire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23It doesn't hurt my eyes like myspace. Therefore, I predict it won't succeed.
J - howiloved, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16yea it's nicer than myspace. but it's going to be hard to crack myspace especially if you can't even leave comments. wtf?
- underburn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11I say Digg make the "MySpace KIller" im sure they would at least get it right.
- jmholloway, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Hey! Hey!! Look at me!! Im a girl!! And I prolly check digg more than all of you all combined!
- Danik55, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1198.7% male? You mean actual girls read this site?!! I need names. Now.
- wthulhu, on 08/29/2009, -0/+7Isn't this a bit like coming out with a newer version of herpes?
- breakneckridge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6If I had a lot of money I'd be so busy fulfilling all my carnal desires that I wouldn't have time to even think about MySpace.
- dandiemer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6it's not hard to make somethign look nicer than myspace.
- Daem0nX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7ajb2015 - pause?
Adblock the entire site it comes from so you never hear content from any other user using it again. - jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I hate myspaces craptastic layout system where anyone can paste any sloppy code into the page... if aim has a better system and they don't junk it up with ads then it'll be nice to have a new home..
- epoch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4When I first saw this in my RSS feed I thought there was a serial killer using the pseudonum "AIM", killing people on myspace. I hoped...
- Computer_Kid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4true, but most "kids" using myspace dont try to make it look nice, many have five music videos playing at once.
- matija, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4you are actually right.. part of the reason behind myspace's success is its abundance of pages that hurt the eyes.. the first thing that i thought when i saw that screenshot was 'too clean'
but of course if they enable full customizability, then it could look just as ugly.. but something tells me it just wont surpass myspace.. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Why dont we just kill Myspace, and not put another in it's place?
- SystemError, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Do they think everyone will just getup and switch?
- aquax, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Yes if Digg were a MySpace-like site, it would have well designed, functional pages that are W3C compliant, unique features, and lots of users.
Too bad it would be 98.7% male. - kindrobot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6"Too bad it would be 98.7% male."
If it let you post pictures of yourself in a wonder bra taken in
front of a mirror, that'd change fast. - wayjer, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7Layout looks good but where is the music, that is what MySpace is all about is it not? They need music to be free and more prominent for this to take off.
- Danik55, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The way it looks is you can customize your page to have whatever you want. So I think this guy just hasn't added a comments section for his profile.
To try making your own, go to http://iamalpha.com/.developer/index.jsp
(was working earlier) - fartingbob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3But the thing is Myspace is often the first place that many teenagers use HTML. It gives them basic knowledge of web design, and in 10/20 years, you'll probably find alot of good web designers will be telling everyone that they first got into it through Myspace.
And theres no point going to AIM's service if all your social group is already on myspace, and very few people will be bothered to keep both services in use and update them regularly.
Myspace is far from perfect, but at the moment i cant see anyone overtaking them, no matter how good the site. - insidesource, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Here's Yahoo's! offering:
http://360.yahoo.com/reg/whatis.html - nocode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2this has a lot of potential since there are already a ton of users for AIM and many ppl will be able to find their friends immediately if there on their buddy list. i don't think it'll "kill" myspace, but it'll be another site for ppl to waste time on.
- kmartshopper, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5durka durka well dont let me stifle your jihad
- uownedge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hey hey...it looks strikingly similar to myspace! You can't just kill off something as big as MySpace. Not going to happen. While I'll be the first to admit, "chair" is probably more intelligent than a vast majority of the members, it's not going to go away because AOL puts up a clone site. It's like the whole live.com search thing MS is doing. "Hey, google is ahead in search, so let's do the same thing they're doing!" Why would anyone switch? There needs to be a stronger reason than "hey, we're doing it too!". Until I see something that impresses me there, I'll remain skeptical on this one.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not a good idea... when you have that much garbage, it's wise to have a place to dump it, and that place is myspace. I really would prefer those on myspace not to migrate anywhere else.
- bs0l, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree with first comment- it looks a heck of a lot nicer than myspace does
- thejohnfloyd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2At least thier IM isn't "busted"...
- Syntaxis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If I had a lot of money I'd buy Myspace and delete it. Especially the music. I'd delete the music, undo it and DELETE IT AGAIN!
And then I'd blog about it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Like a lot of dumbass egotistical web developers, I tried my own "MySpace killer" a while back. Technically, our system ran circles around MySpace (not hard to do). It still flopped.
The #1 complaint: "my friends don't use it yet".
As a 25 yo tech, I never really "got" MySpace. But 60 million others get it just fine.
Consider: Pepsi constantly beats Coke in taste tests, and yet, the biggest flop in Coke history was changing their formula. The best is not always the best, or so it would seem.
My advice: stop trying to "kill" someone else's project, and start "birthing" yor own thing. Tom invented "MySpace". I look at it, I see geocities ver 2.0. But even I have come to accept that code alone does not a website community make. - cfsporn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Apple is going to throw a fit if the name stays.
- siouxmoux, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Since AOL Lost all of those Sexual Online Predators Scums to Myspace. They need to come up with Quick and Dirty Business plan to woo them back to AOHell Land.
- SLIPSTR3AM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My only beef with AIM Pages is that it would use my AIM username. I don't tote my username around very much. If I were to do so, I'd get porn spam just like I get in the messages of myspace. I don't know, maybe AOL will create some sort of hide feature, where they can hide the URL. Otherwise, this could be another outlet for spammers to find your username and invite you into their virus-ridden chatrooms and websites.
- radixus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I enjoy MySpace and yet I hate MySpace. It's great because majority of my old high school friends are on there and I'm able to get reconnected to so many people that have drifted away. AOL is going have a hard time with this, but with their IM base they should have a run for their money!
But at times I REALLY hate MySpace, looking at it from an IT, sys admin perspective. The site is overloaded - slow response, and constantly down or having problems. I really appears they just slapped something together and never considered growth. I don't know what it is, but there always seems to be something happening with the MySpace servers. The performance is horrible, the default layout and look is horrible. They get so much money from ads you would think they would put some of that cash in upgrading features and such.
Why people deal with the poor service is beyond me. But hopefully this will push MySpace into addressing some of these problems. - Weenis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It doesn't look a whole lot different than Myspace IMO... and if they don't allow users to customize, no is going to want to use it anyway.
Plus, AOL is just way too late to the party with this... - trunkster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm sad to say but I doubt anyone can kill myspace. Even though AIM pages looks 100 times better then myspace. I guess in ways you can say myspace has a retro look of web pages from 10 years ago.
- dep01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Trends have shown that people are eager to jump to something bigger and better than current offerings (MySpace) -- I wish them best o' luck.
- Determination, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it's BETA, so you know it has to be good.
- redrighthand, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm so sick of social networking sites like My Space. Get out of the damn house and make some friends stop wasting your time in front of the computer. I am staring at this radio active box 9 hours a day only because I'm being paid to, I need releif, I need a break, I need technology to release me from my desk!
(Digg doens't count as Social Networking) - weareglass, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You guys know there's a pref in myspace settings that lets you turn autoplay songs off right? Of course, it ought to be on by default...
- Yegger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You cant kill myspace. Do you expect everyone to just jump to AOL. and besides AOL sucks a fat one anyway.
Boycott AOL - weareglass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Profile site compatibility is the next IM compatibility. Why couldn't you connect your profile on AIM Pages or Tagworld to others' profiles on Myspace? It'd still drive eyeballs there. Ah well.
I like the modular approach AOL is taking with this, especially adding in Flickr support. The big contenders in this arena (Myspace and Facebook) have a very unfortunate walled garden approach. It's an interesting glimpse into a possible future for sites like Myspace. Here's hoping this lights a fire under their asses. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1is there a live url to pages anywhere?
- thedazman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How do you propose we do that?
- volcompimp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The assumption being that AIM users will actually use this service is like saying Gmail users will use google bookmarks. Just because the userbase is there doesn't mean the users are going to want to actually use the service. I think that most people are locked into AIM messenger and would swith in a heartbeat to another client/server if the networks spoke to each other. Think of it as AIM users like being able to communicate to other AIM users, and apply the same logic to myspace. People are not going to want to start taking steps backwards and splitting up their social networking services and have to deal w/ the issues that IM users have to deal with which force them to use clients like GAIM and Trillian.
- pussyWagon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1love.com redeux.
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