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Re: Build Your Own MySpace…Using MySpace’s Technology?

Rachel — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:14:58 -0000

I want to build a Myspace and I dont know how to!

Re: Build Your Own MySpace…Using MySpace’s Technology?

John Miller — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:03:26 -0000

Re: Build Your Own MySpace…Using MySpace’s Technology?

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MISS CUTIE — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:13:34 -0000

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Re: Build Your Own MySpace…Using MySpace’s Technology?

Tom Dean — Mon, 28 May 2007 22:45:37 -0000

If true, however, itâ€™s almost laughable: MySpaceâ€™s greatest asset is its huge userbase, and nobody envies its unreliable platform. Itâ€™s also a bad strategy...

How is it a bad strategy? While I applaud Facebook for their new initiative, it's far too early in the game to be writing obituaries just yet. I would imagine that most users of Facebook don't care where new features are coming from, so long as they're coming.

As for Myspace's "unreliable platform" - lets at least give them credit for doing in a couple of years what took Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft two to three times as long to scale to. It's easy to bash them, but it's not so easy to build scalable infrastructure around something as computationally demanding as "social software."

It's also worth mentioning that Cisco has recently spent millions of dollars to acquire several social software platforms, which is no doubt in response to customer demand for such products, so it's safe to say that a white label platform from Myspace is no more laughable then an open platform for widgets to a userbase that could care less about it.

Re: Build Your Own MySpace…Using MySpace’s Technology?

Aaron — Mon, 28 May 2007 18:46:13 -0000

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How they live in Tokyo,
If you see me then you mean it
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Re: Build Your Own MySpace…Using MySpace’s Technology?

Brian Heys — Sun, 27 May 2007 16:29:42 -0000

It's not the software itself that gives MySpace it's competitive edge - it's the momentum of the user base. There are much better implemented networking sites around, Facebook for one.

Maybe giving away the code isn't such a big deal?

Re: Build Your Own MySpace…Using MySpace’s Technology?

Aubrey Island — Sun, 27 May 2007 14:07:54 -0000

I hate that money is getting involved so much in Social Networks.

Everybody's out to make a buck - I'm out to just have some fun.

Re: Build Your Own MySpace…Using MySpace’s Technology?

dave — Sat, 26 May 2007 17:10:25 -0000

...you can already do this, build your own myspace - but it's even better, and it's an open source application used by tons of universities:
www.elgg.org

Re: Build Your Own MySpace…Using MySpace’s Technology?

Marco Hansell — Sat, 26 May 2007 09:31:07 -0000

HA! White label Myspace. I highly doubt we'll see that one.

What Facebook has done in their new platform is great. Allowing "controlled" customization with widget style apps should lend itself to an easy transition to rev share models, good relationships with developers, while still minimizing the presence of unwanted "spam" apps.

Myspace could thwart them by finally becoming friends with widget developers...but in the meantime we'll have to settle for custom Die Hard profiles...because myspace users didn't know about the hundreds of Myspace customization sites already out there. :-/

Re: Build Your Own MySpace…Using MySpace’s Technology?

Marcus — Sat, 26 May 2007 09:00:34 -0000

lol. i pity the developers who'll have to 'implement' the white label versions!

Re: Build Your Own MySpace…Using MySpace’s Technology?

Pete Cashmore — Sat, 26 May 2007 07:01:10 -0000

Just clarified the wording on this, cos some people seem to think that Marc offered it as a hypothetical - the story is that they *are talking* about (ie. seriously considering, and perhaps in progress to launching) a white label version.

Re: Build Your Own MySpace…Using MySpace’s Technology?

RBA — Sat, 26 May 2007 06:46:37 -0000

Good suggestions for a response to the Facebook Platform. However, just like offering a "Build your own MySapce" those suggestions don't sound at all as the kind of things MySpace would do.