Myspace breathes new life into its existence with the launch of Mashup with Facebook.
Gone are the days when Myspace and Facebook went head to head fighting to see who would dominate the social network world. Back in October, Myspace had even taken measures to step aside from being compared to Facebook and reinvent itself as the ‘go to’ place for social entertainment.
Now the once enemies have moved beyond old rivalry and collaborated to bring more functionality and social fun for its users via the new Mashup with Facebook. With only a few clicks, Myspace users can link their accounts with that of their Facebook, and populate a personalized stream of entertainment content based on their likes and interests from their Facebook profile.
Myspace CEO Mike Jones, joined by Facebook’s Dan Rose, vp of partnerships and platform marketing, in their Thursday announcement stated, “We are thrilled to further our collaboration with Facebook through Mashup with Facebook. This new feature is a great illustration of our strategy around social entertainment and enabling the real-time stream. The stream is one of our most popular features on Myspace, and it is now delivering an even richer entertainment experience of relevant content for our users to enjoy. I’m particularly excited because so many people will be able to have the immediate satisfaction of enjoying their own entertainment program that they have customized themselves as well as connecting to all their passions and to the Myspace community at large.”
In addition, the “Like” button has been integrated onto Myspace to allow Myspace users to share things they liked on Myspace with their Facebook network.
Whether or not this new mashup revitalizes Myspace to the popularity it once was still remains to be seen; however, I doubt you will hear Facebook complaining as Myspace becomes more than just attached to using Facebook technology.
Will this new mashup bring you back to using Myspace?
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Now its a matter of time before they merge and will be called.....MyFaceBook! =)
What I foresee: Standardization of a Social Networking protocol. Like email, it will have a standard format of what basic functions is has to have, and your provider (Gmail/Yahoo, or in this case, Facebook/myspace) will have features that provide a front-end to the standard without violating it.
Ok, so it's not likely to happen AT ALL, but one can hope... I only have hope because if it does get standardized, there's likely to be security standards (e.g. settings for who sees your info).
Snowflake's chance in hell....
Now its a matter of time before they merge and will be called.....MyFaceBook! =)
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Soul? MySpace had soul?
My dad just calls it "MyFace"
MySpacebook. I was told a business didn't have a soul, but MY BAD, I guess MySpace "had" one... ;-)
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BookMyFaceSpace. Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Is this why the negotiations between Facebook and Apple over Ping haven't been more "fruitful".
No one needs to know all this stuff about you. These sites suck and so do their privacy protections.
/get off my lawn
This has by far been the wackest discussion ever.
merge with twitter and then it's "mytwitface"
MyBad
It's all becoming one big mess!
Pretty soon they need to start up a new website that will evenly distribute all info from Myspace, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Xanga, and MSN on one page. YASN would be a great name for such a site (Yet Another Social Network).
so now I have to deal with farmville AND crappy myspace bands when I want to message a friend?
StfuSpace.
FaceFk.
The reason why myspace failed was because it started copying facebook and when i say copying i mean literally everything. Myspace could have easily made a nasty comeback if it had stayed the same because people would started to get bored with facebook in the future then those same people would have returned to myspace. Thats why they say make your own style don't copy others
Yours Truly, LOO
damn it's time to delete my account at myspace... hopefully it will be deleted for real.
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This is quite a mature course of action for MySpace.
I was fine using MySpace without FaceBook, given of course going to FaceBook and making a FaceBook account would probably be better off to useFaceBook features. Having Facebook on MySpace to use Facebook has gotta be one of the greatest of ideas to use Facebook. I would of just of thought to go to Facebook and used Facebook for all its cool features. And to think Myspace didnt have enough, and still havent gotten around to see what its missing for a need of Facebook, but getting anyway!!
Why Myspace might not be a place to go and Facebook is, who knows, Why go to Myspace if you are using FaceBook? But Hey, of it all there at least still some choice in the matter of using both services or just one or the other. In terms of customizing given maybe issues of myspace i dont see how Facebook is going to be any better too as well expect defaults it might have in place with it. Other social sites are getting put off as well given probably some problems with customization.
But Hey!! Two services for one and can link more all from one page!!! Is some conveince of use if do.
They knew that this is the only way to stay relevant in a world dominated by Facebook. Smart move on their part.