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MySpace vs Photobucket: obvious, but dumb

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

What MySpace has done with Photobucket — blocking users from posting video clips that are hosted at Photobucket — is totally understandable and hardly surprising, particularly given the company’s past behaviour, as Mike Arrington at TechCrunch points out. It%2 ... Continue reading »

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  • I agree with you on this one. Allowing users to use tools from other services on the Myspace network is likely to keep them happy and prevent another social networking site from gaining ground on MySpace by being more open. If I were in charge of MySpace I would want to see what services my users were integrating into their profiles to see where we could improve our features and make them a better alternative. By blocking other services it is basically admitting that the built-in features are inferior and can not compete with other services.
  • This is starting to smell like an opportunity for someone who's happy to create an ungreedy open alternative to Myspace.

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