Okay I have to go there again and talk about MySpace. Why? Cause everyone else does and they think it’s so cool. THEIR SITE SUX! But PC Magazine took it a step further:
Everyone’s crazy about MySpace. If they don’t have enough ‘friends’ on MySpace, they are blogging about it and how bad/good it is. All of us within the traditional Computer channel are in the late-30s to early 50s guys — and we aren’t playing on MySpace, we have work to do (on LinkedIn perhaps). All I know is that MySpace, well it was ONE lucky site.
Why? Well, that’s pretty simple.
Thanks to broadband, sites like MySpace finally fulfill the Web’s original promise. It’s GeoCities on steroidsâ€â€?a better way of creating a personal Web page and serving it up to the world, complete with photos, video, music, and more. “The big difference is that broadband penetration has tripled in this country,” says Randy Browning, who oversees social-networking research for the consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers. “With GeoCities, it was nothing but blah content. Now you get the full multimedia experience.” Flickr and, particularly, YouTube simply wouldn’t be possible over dial-up.
Wait, did they say because of broadband? Maybe that’s true for You Tube and the other Video sites content, or streaming audio for that matter, however MySpace, but itself, without any features installed from the myriad of other sites which provide a limitless range of “glitter graphics,” “Top 16,” and other crap to decorate your page, make it crash in AOL and suck up system resources parsing a million lines of javascript, dumped into your profile page.
There’s no magic there, just luck.
LP
