Myspace trying to be a Portal Site?
Myspace adds all kinds of new features making them appear more as a Portal site rather than a social networking site.
Are they redefining their business rules? Are they just trying to cash in on all those eyes?
Is this even a good move?
All MySpace needs to add to the search bar are tabs for a few things like "news" search and "maps" and -- voila -- it will be competiting with Google, Yahoo and MSN. But, why would we choose Myspace for those features when The big three have already done it, and done it right? Are they trying to hit the younger market, or is it just a ploy to take advantage of their high traffic and page views? Im going with the later!
MySpace uses Simply Hired for its jobs board; starts to look like portal -- Simply Hired, the Silicon Valley start-up for job classifieds, has been selected by the fast-growing social network MySpace to offer job listings via MySpace Careers. This comes just two months after Fox Interactive, which like MySpace is owned by News Corp, invested in the start-up.
Do 16yr olds need a job board?
Will McDonalds be hiring their next Fry Guy from Myspace?
Im done with this topic.
Comments
Personally, I'd like them to streamline their "friends" management. Who can manage 2000+ friends one page at a time? How do you know who just added you. There's no system announcement for it. If they're going to add so many new "portals" why don't they let users change their page status from "user" to a band page, or even add author pages, etc. Bleah. I'm tired. Murdoch is commercializing MySpace and there's nothing we can do about it except move on to the next big thing...
Posted by: Frongo | June 20, 2006 07:57 AM