just a thought on myspace. as they continue to launch other verticals (the latest myspace news) are they starting to look like a huge portal that lacks innovation. innovation is key in this space and to be honest myspace has not been great in this department. will myspace ever go away who knows but i feel the more users start to understand what they can do over the web and the flexibility sites like wordpress offers myspace will start to suffer a bit. i believe the next winner in this space will offer a easy cms tool to post and have open standards regarding all widgets.
myspace is the king platform for widgets because of its audience and nothing else. if they want to build a walled garden thats fine but some other bandwidth/page provider (bc thats all myspace is) will start to eat at the audience.
another way to look at it is a platform that allows widgets to make revenue off their audience (this assumes they have a nice size audience 10-15 million) signs deal with all the top widgets providers in exchange for the widget provider not to allow their widget to be posted on myspace.
just a thought.
marx.
July 21, 2007 at 4:35 pm |
I think myspace is still king for now but I do hope others will better them.