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Re: Motortopia’s MySpace for Motors

Tom Monahan — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:27:52 -0000

Site seems to broad - Cars, boats and bikes? Smaller and Smaller niches will prevail. I mess around with Harley's and have been enjoying http://www.bikerworlds.com. Niche within the Motorcycle market.

Re: Motortopia’s MySpace for Motors

Monte — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:20:42 -0000

FYI, Motortopia added their group feature complete with forums, events and chat. Groups caters directly to enthusiasts, existing car clubs and businesses.

Re: Motortopia’s MySpace for Motors

Anonymous Joe — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:49:21 -0000

[Why is everything â€œMySpace forâ€ something?]

Thats easy. A phrase such as "My Space for cars" is a way to immediately convey that this is a social network (and what a social network is), all in four simple words. It has nothing to do with direct feature set copying, its just a plain fact that My Space is the common-denominator of social networks, and most every one has seen it and understands what it is.

Re: Motortopia’s MySpace for Motors

Pete Cashmore — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:10:14 -0000

Joel,

Cos I forgot. I did review Boompa on Weblist, though.

Re: Motortopia’s MySpace for Motors

Greg — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:01:04 -0000

I think these sites will eventually split off into niches for each model line. If you drive a Ford, you probably don't care about anything else.

Re: Motortopia’s MySpace for Motors

Joel — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:28:08 -0000

Pete-- why no mention of boompa???

Re: Motortopia’s MySpace for Motors

narendra — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:24:14 -0000

I totally want the gloss. Start calling them Small Spaces!

http://www.nosoapradio.org/...

Re: Motortopia’s MySpace for Motors

Pete Cashmore — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:57:31 -0000

Andy,

No, it's just that I can't write an original title. :)

Re: Motortopia’s MySpace for Motors

Andy — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:04:56 -0000

Why is everything "MySpace for" something?

Can someone not have an original idea without borrowing from them?

Re: Motortopia’s MySpace for Motors

Pete Cashmore — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:48:48 -0000

Skeptic,

Yeah, good points. I'm kinda 50/50 on this one - definitely think the lack of forums is a massive problem (should have been the 1st thing they added) and makes you wonder whether they understand this market.

Re: Motortopia’s MySpace for Motors

Skeptic — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:32:00 -0000

Slick interface, but nothing that isn't being done elsewhere. There are numerous car social networks (Boompa.com, CarDomain.com, TunerFriends.com, etc.). The lack of forums is a huge oversight, but even so, there are existing forums out there some with over 100,000 members and I don't know how these guys would compete with them. "It could be the perfect hangout for petrolheads" ignores the fact that petrolheads already have hangouts and unless they have some strategy for getting people to jump ship, this is a sinker. A slick interface and AJAX won't cut it.