Comments on: MySpace is Getting a Little Testy

By: 2007: Year of the Widget? « Cyclone Ranger

2007: Year of the Widget? « Cyclone Ranger — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:36:10 +0000

[...] already seeing this content-versus-messenger battle played out over at MySpace. Just today, fears arose as MySpace, arguably the world’s biggest host of Widgetized services and content, blocked [...]

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MySpace Moves To Limit Spammy Applications, Just Like Facebook Did — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:34:42 +0000

[...] it seems. Back before MySpace Platform this was limited to the occasional widget provider that got out of line. But third parties now have a broad arsenal of features to attack users and get additional [...]

By: YouTube Delivers Knock-Out Punch to Competitors

YouTube Delivers Knock-Out Punch to Competitors — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:53:35 +0000

[...] but MySpace doesn’t allow external advertising on their website. Also, MySpace has been blocking external widgets randomly and without explanation, so I would imagine that YouTube wouldn’t take a chance by [...]

By: TellThem: MySpace Kills Another Startup

TellThem: MySpace Kills Another Startup — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:21:52 +0000

[...] getting bullied by MySpace. Previously they killed DatingAnyone, SingleStatus, copied RealEditor, stalled all widgets, and played chicken with [...]

By: x-roushana-x

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By: RazorSharp iPods & Raw Gadgets » Imeem Blocked From MySpace. Who’s Next?

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:38:15 +0000

[...] has been acting a bit odd all year. Last month all Flash embeds on the site were turned off for a few hours. Some people speculated that they were testing the waters, seeing what kind of backlash they would [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:13:22 +0000

I am not surprised by this . News Corp did not acquire MySpace.com for nothing . It had a genuine commercial interest in running the show . Its clear that Tom and Chris will be watching from the sidelines as News Corp executives show them how to make Money from this Monster which they have created . News Corp has given enough time for all those Widgets services to build their market riding on the long tail of MySpace . Its only a matter of time before it Plugs off external services and starts launching competing products . I think we have got to appreciate that MySpace has the right to set its own business objectives and has the right to switch of external services or keep a few channel partners based on a specific fee. What is really does for those who had been riding the MySpace wave for free is that it allows them to innovate and look for other areas among both web2.0 and web1.0 space and find niche areas which had otherwise been drowned in the shrill cry of MySpace . In short its a good development for the Internet Industry as a whole .

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 05:03:06 +0000

Yeah, I’d have to say that sounds like a developer error to me.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:17:40 +0000

wow Michael, you’re like, so wrong, it’s not even funny. or maybe it is. ha-ha. i know exactly why this happened. ha-ha. but my owners won’t let me squeal. ha-ha.

–myspace hack–

By: Ayush

Ayush — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:08:00 +0000

Companies like Photobucket have a lot to worry about since they’re playing second fiddle to gigantic community that can snuff them out at will.

There’s very low switching costs for photobucket users to move out en masse when Myspace comes up with competing solution and purposefully blocks (or, worse still, makes it harder for photobucket users to do what they do on Myspace) photobucket

Photobucket needs to think long and hard about how it’s adding value to their users and what they are doing to retain them independent of its position as an “image hosting company”. The partnerships with Flock and Piczo are steps in the right direction, but that’s not going to keep their free users (88-90% of their total userbase) from switching when things get hot with myspace. They need to find a way to add new services and convert more free users to paid users.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:12:17 +0000

Myspace should have done this a long time ago. ON PURPOSE. They know how much crap gets on those pages, if they had identical products, they could get 100% of the money baby.

By: nonsmokingarea.com

nonsmokingarea.com — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:10:30 +0000

roundup for 2007-01-19 … Myspace / Music 2.0…

Myspace users experienced a suspicious anomaly yesterday, as adding new (flash-based) widgets to Myspace profile-pages didn’t work for a few hours (existing widget-integrations have not been affected). while TechCrunch reports that Myspace – unof…

By: Chicago Business

Chicago Business — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:13:13 +0000

For me, errors on MySpace are common but uneventful, so I wouldn’t jump to any conclusions because of a 2.5 hour outage. About one out of every four times that I modify or add anything to my content at MySpace, I get an message reporting that there’s an error and it’s been reported to the MySpace development team (or something like that). Usually I’m able to click back and re-submit and the error message goes away… at worst, that fails so I go away and try it later, at which point it works. I always assume these errors are just growing pains, not a conspiracy.

By: josh

josh — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:43:22 +0000

sounds a bit paranoid to think they did it intentionally as a test.

although it’s funny what happens when a site becomes a “platform” and then becomes a “standard” and people start building on it. They start looking at it in a whole new way and changes to the APIs or whatnot are seen as “machiavellian diabolical plots” (roll 12 sided die to see what…or flip your eight ball… ).

even big sites who have become platforms have outages and bugs.

ebay’s behavior in this regard is different but in this case sounds like just a hiccup.

By: NetMidWest

NetMidWest — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:34:28 +0000

I don’t suppose it has anything to do with this:
http://digg.com...e_Gets_Goatse_d

Certainly makes sense for MySpace to kill hotlinking…
which may be affecting the wiget world.

By: Kula bácsi

Kula bácsi — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:21:00 +0000

Parasites get what they deserve.

By: Klaus

Klaus — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:25:19 +0000

>This is why a $20 million investment in a widget company is called “stupid.”

Now it makes sense – to stay in the game these widget companies need to hand over a lot of money to myspace, soon

By: Adam benayoun

Adam benayoun — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:05:56 +0000

I think that we can expect from my space several more “testing” in the future.
I think that they’d want a lage share of the cake in the widget economy being the largest site.
They been testing it not only to see how easy it is to ban the widget because you dont need to do it live (unless you want it to affect the userbase which is what they tried to do) but to test their userbase.
This intentional test has been hitting the news on techcrunch and gigaOM and im sure on more sites aswell.
they can ask for a fee, they can try to ban and only allow back into their site the “certified widget”, but i think it might really hurt MySpace.
But again in long term this strategy might compensate the loss of users (which im not sure will move out, see the network effect).
Anyway, i always stated that developing third party component is a risky market, now widget creator are uncertain of their future.
And that might also scare VC from now on.

…..or that could be only a glitch which caused millions of us to be anxious about wether this was intentional or not.

Disclaimer: this is only my opinion here, i do not have any inside information.

By: phil tadros

phil tadros — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:35:42 +0000

ha, sorry i’m ramblin nonsense circles, just felt like sharing a random blurb

By: morons

morons — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:35:13 +0000

Seriously, the comments on TC are getting increasingly bad. The ppl in the know obviously don’t comment, so there is an increased concentration of crap in here.

Slide, watch this space. It’s not a widget company. Dufuses.

By: Chuck Schick

Chuck Schick — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:19:18 +0000

Phil, donkey.

By: D'Artagnan

D'Artagnan — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:17:14 +0000

What a baseless premature panic-mongering work of pure drivel Good lord a knitting circle is a more accurate source of information.

By: phil tadros

phil tadros — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:22:39 +0000

since I’m online more then anyone probably should, do to the love of being online and
the huge excitement and undertaking of metroproper.com i was actually up and editing my videos just the order etc and i took some out and was thinking of putting my band of cats on ther then i decided, na.. they really play instruments’ really.. well better then any rock star band of cats I’ve ever seen.. okay fine look http://www.vime....com/clip:37813 .. oh yea and i experienced the whole “bug” thing for being able to knock out all the “piggy backers” which i love and are Indy start ups that organically have grown through the free for all movement of what myspace kinda sorta use to be, is myspace gonna be the AOL of social networks in the future? well time will tell, it is owned by Fox News Corp now.. so quite possibly:(:

By: Mark iPod Guy

Mark iPod Guy — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:08:28 +0000

Free market, many other services like Bebo out there.. water seeks level ground.

By: hindustan

hindustan — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:04:46 +0000

Lot of big sites gmail, salesforce, myspace are having problems this days…