Comments on: MySpace Feeds the DeadPool, Nukes Another Startup

By: demodenise[dot]com » Blog Archive » MySpace, the startup killer.

demodenise[dot]com » Blog Archive » MySpace, the startup killer. — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:58:40 +0000

[...] MySpace has a message for startups: It’s our space, not yours. The social networking site has forced the shutdown of DatingAnyone.com, a site that alerted its users to changes in the “relationship status” of designated MySpace members. TechCrunch notes that this is the second startup MySpace has killed in as many weeks. Last week a similar site called SingleStat.us shut down due to MySpace’s legal threats after less than two weeks in existence.In MySpace’s “cease-and-desist” letter — which DatingAnyone founder Jared Chandler posted on his shuttered site — MySpace ticks of several concerns, notably that Chandler’s “automated script” would put an undue burden on its servers, and that its terms of service expressly ban the commercial use of user information. All valid points, but, as Chandler writes, “it’s unfortunate that there is no avenue for outside improvement of MySpace.” He even suggests that allowing a broader community of developers to create enhancements for the service might help solve the problem of sexual predators, and TechCrunch readers seem to side with him. Writes one: “Pathetic! MySpace is destroying the innovation here! Their reasoning is ridiculous. People should be aware of this evil approach of MySpace!”MySpace is shooting themselves in the foot. Certainly, the issues are complex, but opening up its site as a “platform” would allow third-party programmers to expand MySpace’s features — and lock in its status as the top social-networking site. Look at how Google made Google Maps so popular by opening it up to outside programmers. [...]

By: Singlestat.us « SkybirdSat

Singlestat.us « SkybirdSat — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:57:16 +0000

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» important post — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:41:33 +0000

[...] Imagine if all the people developing tools for spamming and otherwise making the online social networking space even dirtier spent their time making tools like this instead. Let’s hope MySpace doesn’t give these guys a hard time. The company has shut down two other services (DatingAnyone and SingleStat.us) operating alongside MySpace in recent months. It certainly seems like a loss for everyone when a company shuts down small start ups working in conjunction, not competition, with a large popular service. Social bookmark this post:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

By: CitronJaune » Blog Archive » MySpace, iPod du web

CitronJaune » Blog Archive » MySpace, iPod du web — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:53:15 +0000

[...] Mise à jour : MySpace a interdit les services SingleStat.us et DatingAnyone.com assurant ainsi leurs faillites. [...]

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links for 2006-06-23 | BiZwiKi.CN - 喧闹 PK 噪音 — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:31:40 +0000

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Throw the Mind » Best of the Interweb 6-21-06 — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:23:03 +0000

[...] Myspace has killed another site. [...]

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:15:09 +0000

Why are these lawyers always in Beverly Hills, 90210?

It’s the zip code everyone in Britain uses when we need one to access a US website.

By: Drew Olanoff

Drew Olanoff — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 02:13:43 +0000

The guy even sent MySpace an email in a proactive manner. It was a standup move and Fox still dropped the hammer. It was a fantastic service by a real talent. Booooooooo.

By: Inspirational Technology » Blog Archive » Yahoo Local adds support for Microformats

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:43:34 +0000

[...] This is really a big question overall for all implementations of Microformats. With cases like MySpace shutting down a couple services for polling the site like a crawler, it’s something that’s going to be interesting to watch. Dare Obasanjo from MSN also has some commentary on the crawling problem. Microformats don’t necessarily encourage crawling, but once they’re there the temptation will be real. It’s not sufficient to just rely on RSS feeds to carry the data and it’s naive to think that this won’t increase the amount of crawling that goes on. This is something that’s been troubling me for a while. This is a big difference from the more structured APIs that providers can more tightly control access to. [...]

By: Web 2.0 - Что нового? Новости интернет проектов » MySpace - поставщик трупов, закрывает ещё один сервис

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:04:09 +0000

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By: kwa

kwa — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:08:19 +0000

In France, Skyrock, a French radio group focusing on teenagers, has launched a blog platform, Skyblog, a couple of years ago. Today, this French platform counts about 5 million blogs. It’s going to be very hard for Myspace to fight such a strong competition!

By: scott vbg

scott vbg — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:42:33 +0000

Would MySpace react this way pre-rupert? sc

By: Scot

Scot — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:50:19 +0000

And thinking about it for a little while longer, another, more plausible, threat is that these services will add to myspace’s current “sex pest paradise” stigma. If you’re trying to convince concerned parents that myspace is safe for thier teenage children then services that let anyone in the world keep track of thier teenagers relationship status is not going to help.

By: Scot

Scot — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:29:00 +0000

@Jeyaram - If the rumours about News Corp wanting to tie myspace up with a search engine are true, then an imaginary threat would be that these services (which are essentially very niche search engines) somehow devaule that tie up. But if that’s the case, I have to wonder that if after myspace does tie up with a search engine, will the other ones get C&Ds as well? After all, they must be violating the exact same terms of service that SingleStatus and DatingAnyone were (but they do have more lawyers :-).

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» So young, so angry. Damn that rap music Web 2.0! by Kingsley 2.0 — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:50:14 +0000

[...] MySpace, the young, heavy-weight tyrant just gave another startup a bleeding nose. [...]

By: Kingsley

Kingsley — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:47:02 +0000

Yeah, the only think that stood between DatingAnyone and a stellar IPO was MySpace’s unavailable API. Really.

To say that DA was a competitor to MySpace is utterly ridiculous. That’s like saying that your blog is a competitor to Google because it runs Google ads.

MySpace needs to focus on far more important things than who’s screen scraping them illegally. Cut them some slack - whether they eventually choose to open their API is a choice we can hope they make. But right now, they need to get some legal muscle to fight the self righteous parents.

By: Le blog de LostInBrittany

Le blog de LostInBrittany — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:20:14 +0000

MySpace arrive en France…

Il semblait que jusqu’au présent l’Europe avait été oublié par le phénomène MySpace, mais cela ne va pas durer : TechCrunch nous annonce dans ce billet que cet été MySpace débarque sur la France.

C’est quoi MySpace ? Bon en simplifiant l…

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » MySpace 他のスタートアップも攻撃、DeadPoolへの送り込み

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » MySpace 他のスタートアップも攻撃、DeadPoolへの送り込み — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:24:33 +0000

[...] [原文へ] DatingAnyone DEADPOOL [...]

By: MySpace Loves Cease and Desist Letters Too Much | Kevin Boyer

MySpace Loves Cease and Desist Letters Too Much | Kevin Boyer — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:06:37 +0000

[...] MySpace, the third most popular site on the internet according to Alexa, has been sending out cease and desist letters right and left. Several owners of domains containing ‘Myspace’ in them have reported recieving such letters on forums like Digital Point. I just found out via Techcrunch’s article that they have now shut down a second website that uses their site for it’s main function: DatingAnyone.com. It provided similar services to SingleStat.us, another site shut down recently. [...]

By: Kevin Boyer

Kevin Boyer — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 03:21:03 +0000

MySpace needs to realize that this will only drive more visitors to their site. It’s worth the server drain, which can be nothign compared to what they already are under.

By: Jeyaram

Jeyaram — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 03:13:27 +0000

MySpace with over a billion page views a day claims that their site was subject to undue server burden. That statement is hard to digest especially considering their previous termination of SingleStat.us which had only 10,000 page views. How are these small ventures a threat to MySpace.

Are they so scared that these new startups may turn into the next Google or could it be that they want to safeguard their own information. Another possiblity could be that they want to implement this feature on their own to take advantage of the revenue potential. Regardless, this serves as an example for potential dot.com enthusiasts to be weary of ventures that are connected to larger and more established companies especially ones that are so big, but yet act so small.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 03:08:47 +0000

Hmmm….Where have I seen this before, lets see: shady business practices done to “get rid of” other companies for whatever reason. Who does that remind me of?

Oh yeah, Microsoft.

By: 泛泛其景 » 短命的DatingAnyone和Singlestat.us

泛泛其景 » 短命的DatingAnyone和Singlestat.us — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:44:00 +0000

[...] 刚刚前几天提到“MySpace的出现养活了一帮2.0“，这几天就突然风云突变，MySpace一反平时对2.0公司相对宽容的态度，断然采用法律手段迫使DatingAnyone和Singlestat.us关门。参见Techcrunch和Valleywag的相关报道。 [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:28:15 +0000

So, MySpace can’t take competition?

By: BlogReader

BlogReader — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:17:38 +0000

This is a bad move on Fox’s part as it doesn’t take much to setup a myspace competitor — just some simple HTML tools and a lot of bandwidth and server space. And they’ll have built in single status searching which will be a draw for the current myspace user.

What’s keeping people on myspace? There’s no sense of community, it is just a bunch of separate webpages.