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- Dgen_X, on 10/12/2007, -2/+58in other news...AOL members are mysteriously cut off from visiting myspace.com
AOL PR says it's a software glitch - dude3609, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15its hard to imagine anything as a myspace killer, considering myspace is growing at about 50 people per second.
- mercatfat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"people will realize that no good can come out of posting personal information on the internet."
Oh, to be young and naive again.
The internet is basically founded on the concept of metaphorical displaying your genitals to the world. - ldhertert, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14I'm pretty sure a 5 year old could make something "better and different than myspace"
- fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Am I the only one who thought the Digg title referred to some AOL-supported MySpace sociopath?
*that* kind of story would've actually been worth posting. - BassCadet, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11You know, I'd love to see this become a MySpace killer because MySpace is the buggiest, slowest ***** ever.
If AOL paid every moderately hot chick $10 to switch from MySpace to the new AIM pages it would work. But hot girls are usually stupid and lazy and won't want to make the effort to switch. And where the girls are, the guys (bulk of users) will follow. - proton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Despite the fact that it's coming from AOL there are some interesting things about this project:
- "adding functionality to AIM that will really open it up %u2014 allowing developers, partners, and users to take part"
- "social network on the back of AIM"
- "third party companies are being approached to build widgets"
- "using AOL's I Am Alpha API" - TimmyGUNZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7People go to MySpace to get laid, not paid.
- soogy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8That's no glitch, AOL is hacking. "AIM".com? MySpace "Killer?" Safe to say someone is using aimbot. Quick, ban their CD key.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Gmail is the best in class, sorry you feel otherwise
- ripberge, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Can you say "late to market"???? What a joke. Who cares if its integrated with AOL IM. MSN and Yahoo! have tried doing that with their social networking sites and its gotten them NO WHERE fast. Third parties are developing "widgets"? I'm sure that's PR speak for you can customize your layout and add video, flash, etc. MySpace is an edgy brand that none of these behemoths will ever duplicate, they roll out features on a pretty insane schedule. If they can keep up the site up and running smoothly no-one is going to get anywhere close to them in this genre of sites.
- erkokite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5pfff...Everything today is a something-killer. AOL has it's Myspace killer, Microsoft has it's Google Search killer. Yahoo has it's GMail killer. In reality, generally these whatever-killers end up sucking and never catch on. Anyone else see this trend?
- Aztlan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8It looks like MSN is in the works to improve on your their spaces and their hiring engineers.
"Windows Live Spaces - the future of MSN Spaces
In the summer of 2006, we will unveil a more powerful version of MSN Spaces which will be called Windows Live Spaces! Stay tuned!
We're hiring engineers!
Want to work on one of the coolest projects at Microsoft? If you are an engineer who wants to set new grounds in innovative technology -- we want you on the Spaces team. Send your resume to us!"
info found here http://spaces.msn.com/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Good luck getting all the teens who use MySpace to switch.
- diggerphelps, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8You cannot kill myspace.
You can only register Chuck Norris on myspace and hope it dies of fear. - stokestack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The M already stands for "messenger".
- SteveWiseman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I don't think AOL is going to stop the myspace movement. True, that a lot of the users are just the type of people to jump to the latest fad, but a lot of the users like bands and film makers have a established way to contact people and probably wont end up switching. I work with Vendetta Studios (guys who did the Myspace Movie) and we use it to promote and let people know whats going one, it would be dumb for us to change to AOL's "killer" and lose what we have.
- stokestack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4In still more news: MySpace and AOL merge into an uber-fool, a sentient being with the brainpower of all 100 million members and the IQ of a cabbage.
Sorry. That's an insult to several cabbages I know, who wouldn't be caught dead on MySpace. - stokestack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Facebook is an invalid comparison, because it insists that you have an E-mail address from a limited number of manually approved school domains.
Worthless. - funkytaco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I wouldn't consider MySpace a "movement". A similair thing happened in 1996 when people hopped on to the Internet. GeoCities and Tripod were king with 1megabyte and 2 megabyte websites. Its half a decade later and communites pop up around the Internet. You have to be honest with yourself and realize MySpace got lucky, there are much better communities out there.
- dayquil, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I would argue that as long as myspace remains a huge pain in the ass in every practical way, it will remain vulnerable to replacement. Just being popular isn't *always* good enough on the net.
- volcompimp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is gonna be a big joke... People are locked into their IM service and that's the only reason anyone uses it. I guess the same is true for myspace which is why aim will remain (for how long I don't know) everyones IM service and myspace will remain everyone social networking site. I hear myspace wants to create a real IM client that ties into their network and people will call it the "aim killer" but give me a break.
- tjl2015, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Why does AOL need to invest money to create a MySpace killer? AOL already IS a MySpace killer. AOL bogs down a system so much it will struggle to load Google, let alone a site filled to the brink with random animations, personal background theme music, and irrelevant pictures and video. AOL will probably turn MySpace into a killer, because the user will likely die when their AOL-infested computer explodes in a nuclear meltdown when they log onto MySpace!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3yeah it is. by 2007 it will have 3 gbs. that kicks ass
- AUGTRON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Did anyone see the Showbiz Show about myspace last night...........oooooooooo man.
- jimmy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3isn't AOL going to try to do what happened to them? they had a big user base and started losing people to a better product. I think people will go to the better product in the long run. They have to offer something different and better for people to leave Myspace. An equivalent product wont move the masses
- udubnate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2if anything it will be just like msn spaces
- Phyltre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I read this headline and thought that some serial killer was using Myspace and AOL to find new victims, and the media was sensationalizing it.
Luckily, that wasn't the case. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yeah right. Because 99.9999% of the users of MySpace are just DYI{NG for something better.
Seriously...take a step back and re-read your post, and tell me that even YOU don't see how stupid it is. - aliguana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Tagworld already does this. and anyhow, do we need another MyArse clone?
- vertigoblue, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3did anyone else see this title and think, an aol employee killing people, aided by myspace?
- Orangutan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2hey enrico, have you ever seen facebook ? it not only has the ease of use factor, its much cleaner overall and gives you more ways to interact with people. i think it may be seeing gains over myspace soon.
- mattb19us, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I just noticed today that Filelodge has now become Bolt - Filelodge. It seems that you can create profiles, upload pictures, and post blogs. Seems like everyone is jumping on this bandwagon.
- stokestack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Uh, no. That's what results in the visual diarrhea that has become the hallmark of MySpace and its barely humanoid denizens.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2They're going to have to do better than "similar" features.
AOL probably doesn't have a chance, but how about this: Google sets up a "myspace killer", but in theirs, they automatically link in their adsense ad bars to people's pages. Then, the more friends and people who come to visit your MyGoogle page, the more Google pays you.
It's a very basic idea, rife with problems, I know, but it's a start. I'll let the wizards there figure out the rest. - SirGrant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Agreed, this could possibly take off I mean myspace isn't designed that well and if they integrate it well with AIM things might change.
- xeroskill, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3defiantly agree, myspace is what people like to use, plus aol isn't really a loved thing either since its another corporate giant that younger audiences just don't like. myspace will live on.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yawn....I guess his needs to be said one more time.
Every time a company comes out with a new siproduct or service simialr to an industry leader, it does NOT mean that they expect it to defeat the winner.
When a company comes out with a new MP3 player, they are NOT expecting Apple to throw in the towel and cease production on iPods. Apple does not expect to ever come close to Microsoft's market share. A new rental by mail service does not expect to bankrupt Netflix.
The marketplace can sustain more than one brand in pretty much EVERY area. And AOL is simply trying to turn a profit with their service, NOT take down MySpace.
So really...a plea to ALL digg submitters. Retire the phrase "XXXX Killer" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ill join, i got the wrong myspace url
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The custom CSS capability in MySpace rules.
- bluemech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If only killing MySpace meant killing MySpace, not making more clones of it.
- goodnewsevery1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Anything decent could kill MySpace. I don't think I will ever understand the popularity of such a crappy site. Reminds me of the Geocity/personal webspace wars. Crap generators... wheee!
- volcompimp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's not very hard at all... How many people use AOL's 'gmail killer'? Or any of their other services besides AIM? Myspace already has the user base for social networking, AOL has the user base for IM. There has been talk of a Myspace IM app but do you think it's going to be an 'AIM killer'? Just because you've got the users on one of your apps doesn't mean it's going to be that easy to steal from someone elses populated user base.
- sert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is what I was talking about in my comment on the other story, looks like they really are intergrating it with aim after all though
- stokestack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's "AOL."
- volcompimp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Haha no but that's a good one.
- BillyK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Have any of you tried using MySpace lately? I'd say 70% of the time there's some kind of lag or bug or something broken. It's seriously jacked. I will look into any service that allows the same freedom, but can stay running. MySpace is just pure frustration these days, and that's what will bring them down (remember that's why people left Friendster for MySpace in the beginning!)
- dbre2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Companies like google and myspace are catching the "big 10" media corporations off guard (sony, vivendi, viacom, time warner, GE, etc)...consumers are finding ways to get entertainment from another source, so now they're trying to find ways to get their share of this market...unfortunately this may work...most myspace users probably have an aim account, and spend just as much time, if not more, on aim than on myspace. If they succeed in luring the myspace crowd over to their new portal by closely tying aim into it, that'll open up a huge advertising market that they've been less than successful at reaching in the past
- djgump35, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1agreed aliguana, the other thing is how many people that don't get on myspace care, and how many that do really have any brand loyalty to the thing. There have been profile sites before, then came the blog, there will always be something newer, and you can bet if minors can get into it, it will be popular, people will go to jail, and I won't be there.
Loved the whole Kansas thing, maybe if the columbine kids had gotten online and discussed their strategy, they could have been foiled, the whole thing could have been prevented, who knows, but suicidal or sick, at least some kids got some help. As people spend all their time debating free speech on message boards, their kids exercising it in the other room on the other computer, with some adult on the other end. - MelvinSchlubman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, at least three others.
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