-After all, MySpace began as a site for musicians to keep in touch with their fans. At some point, it got spun into Friendster 2.0 or something and now its original purpose is a sadly minor facet of its existence. I mean, when Coke has a MySpace account it uses to plant surreptitious marketing messages online, what's left for it?
- My husband is in a band and the youngest member of the group suggested that they have a MySpace page. I was kind of negative on the idea, mostly because I was under the impression that MySpace didn't have many members who were old enough to actually go to a 21+ venue. Sounds like I might be wrong about that. Can any of you recommend a good example of a band's MySpace page? (I ask because I have somehow become their webmaster.) --I'm 32 years old, and I have a myspace. All my favorite bands have them too. A couple major artists have released songs on their myspace page before anywhere else now, too. It's good for bands because they can put their shows on myspace calendar, and fans can get notices and stuff. http://www.myspace.com/fateswarning is an example of a typical Myspace music page. My page is here, if anyone wants to add me.
-The music player thingy is cool.-------------------------------
The New York Times on 1/24/05 had an interesting piece on the “social networking” thing. Naturally, the tenor the article was rather pessimistic (this is the NY Times, after all). The article mentioned the big time VC backed Friendster.com has been surpassed by funky upstart MySpace. Friendster boosts more registered users, but apparently MySpace has users that use the service for far longer periods of time. Also, MySpace has grabbed a hold of the coveted 18 to 29 year old demographic.
MySpace began as a service for people to share videos and music clips, and if you’ve spent any time surfing through their site, you’re apt to come across some pages where after a few seconds of load time, music begins to blare through your speakers. Nice. I hate that. yeah I always leave. so loud. visually too.
But the kids love it, and that seems to be the secret of success for the deals. Find the audience that has nothing but time on their hands. Kind of like the MTV for the computer generation, which, I believe is MySpace’s business model.
Since I am the coolest person at VC Fodder, I naturally have profiles at Friendster, MySpace, LinkedIn, Ryze, and some other on-line things. -Bill Snow 2005_01_26
ok, so the in thing among the kids in our neck of the woods is MySpace. I've told them that I have a blog, but they have no interest; blogger is so "ghetto," they tell me. MySpace is how the kids connect. It's also where they share their true feelings. I wanna know what the kids are writing about themselves, and who they're connecting with. However, in order to view a lot of the MySpace websites, you need to have your own MySpace website. So, as of this weekend, I do. And the kids helped me set it up. So that's how my life on MySpace began. I'm not taking it too seriously. My online heart remains here at the Field of Dandelions. But if you're curious, or you just want a good laugh.... www.myspace.com/pastordannyb. -posted by Danny @ 9:17 PM to fieldofdandelions blogspot
MySpace began in 2003 as an online social networking community similar to Friendster but um I tht it began for music, for bands?. But its unprecedented explosion in popularity -- from no one to 30 million users in a little over two years -- is due mostly to musicians' literal reading of its name uh~. Profile pages quickly became outposts of rock & roll entrepreneurialism, hosting promotional material, photos, tour info, MP3s, and entire street team (?) networks. The MySpace Revolution gave every band on Earth its own tireless A&R man, every registered user's very first friend, site co-founder Tom Anderson. Anderson moves into real A&R with MySpace Records, Vol. 1, an unsurprisingly emo-centric cross-section of notables and hopefuls. These are the bands bred inside MySpace's fiber-optic wires, a brood of attractive child rockers whose frame of reference travels only as far as Green Day, Jimmy Eat World, and the occasional 1980s flashback hour. Well, Weezer too, who contribute here with "We Are All on Drugs." There's an acoustic version of "Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner" from relative veterans Fall out Boy, AFI sounding nicely Cure-ish on the previously unreleased "Rabbits Are Roadkill on Rt. 37.," and Against Me! being typically righteous on "Don't Lose Touch." As for the up-and-comers, the Click Five sounds more like a junior Fountains of Wayne than ever on "Angel to You (Devil to Me)," and Jupiter Sunrise offers some dark humor with its Weezer Starter Kit product "Arthur Nix." (By default Say Anything wins the award for most risqué line on "Every Man Has a Molly": "For you/I won't ever have rough sex with Molly Connelly again.") Overall the 17 songs on MySpace, Vol. 1 effectively sample what the site has to offer. But that begs the question: why buy them when you can log in for free and hear two million versions of the very same thing? ~ Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide - MySpace, Vol. 1 (Nov05) - Listen,Review,Buy at ARTISTdirect
Forward Motion- MySpace.com -A place for friends: Meet Tom--the brainchild (wait -isn't It His brainchild?), President, and Co-Founder of MySpace.com. We’ve pulled him aside to figure out why on-line social networking sites have become so huge... buzztone murmurz
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