Oh, look who's on myspace.April 20 2006.
Oh look. Everyone's favourite naughty adult bears have a myspace profile. It seems myspace is now open to more than just perverts, strippers, and sullen teenagers. Myspace fascinates me. For one, there are over 55 million opened accounts. If you subtract liars, dead people, and stuffed animals from that number, you're still sitting around a healthy 40 million. For two, myspace is the most visited site on the internet. Our wide world web's greatest hit generator is home to both browser-crashing CSS and an ad-to-content ratio somewhere around 9:1. Finally, myspace was purchased by News Corporation for a price floating somewhere near half a billion dollars. That seems like they coughed up quite a bit of cash up front, but it's a steal when you realize they've purchased each user's attention for ~$10.50. When you think about the ad revenue they're pulling in from each of their addicted users, it starts to feel like NewsCorp might be the big winner. Now that News Corporation (a.k.a. Fox, The Sun, et al.) owns myspace, will the hipster activists drop it? Will the kids creating content read the nitty gritty of their user-agreement? Armchair business analysis aside, myspace really shows the kids don't give a shit about a well designed site. Give them personalization (and a place where their parents can't find them), and you've got a killer app. Content is king, fuckers. Which makes me wonder why anyone's still reading this site. |
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alencia says:
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