Myspace is still the best social network for bands and music. Their streaming player is awesome.

Umm…no? Perhaps in 2003. But there’s several sites for bands now, the best one being Bandcamp.

I would encourage anyone that still has a Myspace account to delete it ASAP, before the ad firm that bought it has its way with your data.

Sell, Baby, Sell!

(timing is everything)

Batteries not included…

seriously I could do this all day..

Timberlake will take an ownership role in MySpace and will help develop the site’s creative direction and strategy, Specific Media announced on Wednesday shortly after buying the company from News Corp.

http://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/justin-timberlake-lead-myspaces-creative-strategy-28694

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/English/half.html

I am, you are, he, she, it are “halfing” a good time.

How much is BB worth? I’ve heard that it is a “million dollar blog.” How many unique visits per month?

News Corp. bought Myspace for $580 in 2005, and made that back via a lucrative advertising deal with Google when the social networking site was flying high.

It was worth $580 when it was “flying high”?

Myspace is still the best social network for bands and music. Their streaming player is awesome. I loved myspace when I was a musician and I still used it a lot longer than most of the people I know for music related stuff.

Also, the greater anonymity and freedom to customize could be a real asset. The people I know that still use myspace use it as their “fun” social network. They use facebook as their public face to the internet world. It’s the one they friend their Mother on. They are careful to not post party pics on there because they friend clients and co-workers. They in general reign themselves in a little on facebook. But they still maintain a myspace page with a fake screen name that they use for trying to hook up(a lot of the folks I know that use myspace especially use that site for the site that they’re openly swingers or bi-sexuals etc. looking for some action on, while they maintain on their face book that they’re married or straight or don’t say anything about their private preferences at all) or for posting party pics and racy pics. They’ll have the tame family vacation pics on their facebook, but the flirty pics that are mainly “look at my boobs!”, on the myspace.

Also, it seems to me that myspace skews younger than facebook. Why not embrace that? Make it the place where you’re mom’s not on your friends anymore?

They should embrace how people are really still using it. If I bought it, I’d turn it around like hip folks have turned a lot of abandoned downtowns into some place cool. A downtown that was once hustling and bustling with shops and offices its heyday, then it got abandoned as folks fled the city for the suburbs and strip malls, then people saw that there were still lots of lovely buildings and infrastructure that with a little work could still accommodate a lot of people, and they saw the potential to make the district cool again and re-invented it as home to clubs and a vibrant restaurant scene and off-beat shops. It wasn’t the center of upstanding high class culture anymore, but it was cool again and lively again. A place where folks that had emigrated to the outlying areas could slip away to to party all weekend.

Heck, make it the Vegas of the internet. Facebook and Twitter can be New York and LA and Middle America. They can be business and boring homelife, but myspace could be all fun and glitz and sex and letting loose. What happens on myspace, stays on myspace?

http://www.2008tshirts.com/Assets/ProductImages/AG_0038_1227_MYPLACE.jpg

I’m gonna go check out Bandcamp roght now, actually.