Tue
Apr
25
2006

the MySpace section starts

all done before by other bloggers, so this is from my perspective as a new MySpace member

it is supposed to be the 2nd most visited site on the internet, and currently has 73,663,446 members (although how many of these are active or not ‘spam profiles’ or jokes set up by mates etc ?).

i registered and created a profile, started to learn about what is acceptable there and what is not and got my profile up to date. I then found out you can ‘pimp’ your profile by using CSS and some HTML, my pimped up profile is courtesy of Mike Industries

very importantly Mike (who is a HTML / CSS guru type) spent a lot of time building his pimping kit properly as MySpace seems to be very non complient and a bit of a mess. (rather frustratingly there is no open API there too, so we can’t do interesting mobile things with it, ho-hum).

MySpace is talked about constantly for all sorts of reasons, some times valid sometimes not, but so far the experience is good and a little like on-line dating! more on this as I learn more…

Posted by Alex Laurie, Apr 25, 06:09 PM
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  1. Myspace does not have to be an on-line dating service. There are a lot of people who have myspace profiles including me who dont use myspace for meeting people. They use myspace to talk to friends.Some friends might not live by them anymore or maybe they talk to friends that do live by them.
    As for me , I use myspace to talk to my friends that live where I used to live. And also to talk to my new friends where I just moved.

    — Rebecca · Jan 2, 05:25 AM · #

  2. Rebecca, thanks for the comment, my point is that the experience is a little like online dating, and nearly a year on from joining MySpace i still think this is true. My spin on this is that i have been to see new bands after they contacted me on MySpace a little like online dating! I love what the internet and internet comunities is doing for music and I will continue to take an active interest in it as it is always good to find out new stuff!

    the technology behind MySpace and the way you use it is indeed borrowed from the online dating paradigm and this is not a bad thing as this has proven to be a good business model for online comunities.

    — Alex Laurie · Jan 3, 02:52 PM · #

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