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Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:52:34 +0000

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By: Did Facebook Shut Down Slide’s Top Friends? How Very MySpace Of Them

Did Facebook Shut Down Slide’s Top Friends? How Very MySpace Of Them — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:30:33 +0000

[...] used to be notorious for simply banning third party widgets that didn’t play nice (”not playing nice” [...]

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By: Myspace - the next Prodigy? · Kokorec

Myspace - the next Prodigy? · Kokorec — Mon, 28 May 2007 11:34:47 +0000

[...] on Myspace. Myspace does not have a formal developers program and has blocked several widgets before, built their own widgets to compete in certain areas, making it pretty clear that they [...]

By: Redeye VC

Redeye VC — Sun, 27 May 2007 21:02:37 +0000

Myspace - the next Prodigy?…

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By: Myspace Could end Up Buying Lots of Sites That Make Money from Them, Who's Next?

Myspace Could end Up Buying Lots of Sites That Make Money from Them, Who's Next? — Tue, 08 May 2007 06:13:34 +0000

[...] the little spat they had last month, MySpace began blocking videos embedded on MySpace pages that originate from Photobucket, it looks like they have more than made up. Myspace is planning on buying Photobucket for $250 [...]

By: Photobucket Was A Steal v. Google/YouTube

Photobucket Was A Steal v. Google/YouTube — Mon, 07 May 2007 21:10:44 +0000

[...] were IAC and MySpace, with a number of other bidders falling off in the last few weeks (perhaps spooked by the MySpace blockage of Photobucket [...]

By: StickiWidgets

StickiWidgets — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:30:33 +0000

MySpace Blockade Now Includes PhotoBucket Videos…

Add PhotoBucket videos to the growing list of widgets/companies blocked by MySpace. This time around, they are specifically blocking the video embeds. Photos and slideshows have not been affected.
If you have PhotoBucket videos on your MySpace page, …

By: socialham.com » Blog Archive » Friendr - New MySpace Friend Adder Service

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:23:25 +0000

[...] Friendr might soon succumb to the same fate as MySpace is quickly building a reputation of "not playing well with others". The service is relatively harmless however it could easily be abused like many MySpace [...]

By: Motorcycle Guy

Motorcycle Guy — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:18:57 +0000

I didn’t think photobucket depended on myspace, but I could see how they would derive a large portion of their income from myspace.

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By: frank

frank — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:35:09 +0000

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By: IZI

IZI — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:52:44 +0000

Even that companies that not lay 100% in their business on MySpace that more that clever at my point of view, intended to made some workarounds like “MySpace optimized” or something like this to still be available for growth audience of myspace customers. For example one of the indies music stores http://payplay.fm release optimized (cutted down functionality) version of their music widgets.

Here is the blog enrty http://myspace.com/payplay

At any point this moves cost people time and of course money.

By: WikiVotr

WikiVotr — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:49:38 +0000

Oh ya, and how about Slide? They must be shaking in their boots right now! Slide has gotten incredibly popular on myspace recently, and I imagine if myspace cuts them off too, they might not have enough users to keep the business afloat in the future. I guess anyone who rides myspace’s coattails better read their TOS extra carefully… Best of luck, Max.

By: WikiVotr

WikiVotr — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:42:21 +0000

George and Billco, Myspace is not going to go down, and so what if their design sucks. I used to think is would eventually lose steam because of its basic design and limited customization compared to other social networks, but when you look at people’s profiles, you realize that the average joe DOES NOT CARE ABOUT DESIGN. Good design is overrated, especially if you allow people to tweak their profile with CSS. And the biggest reason myspace got so big was because the best alternative at the time, Friendster, didn’t scale well and became so slow that everyone ditched Friendster to join Myspace. I always thought Friendster was a much better site and would still use it if everyone was on there, but everyone is on myspace now so that’s where I am (and facebook). I’m surprised there hasn’t been a massive revolt against myspace for blocking Photobucket like there was when Facebook introduced news feeds. Maybe the majority of myspacers are younger and/or less sophisticated? I did read on Hitwise that facebook users are MUCH more likely to vote than myspacers…

- Grant

By: Mike @ Emerging Earth

Mike @ Emerging Earth — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:17:33 +0000

MySpace is a silo. Let it crumble as such.

By: dinofond

dinofond — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:12:11 +0000

Remember that the next time you click on a banner at myspace, it’s the way they make profit. Please join me in a grass roots protest, stop clicking on any myspace.com banners until they lift this ban against photobucket.com. After all the phishing attacks resulting in spam messages on everyones myspace in the last six months and the known un-patched security holes I think it’s time it’s users sent them a VERY STRONG MESSAGE!

From an IT professional to you, Beware!

By: Lone Wolf

Lone Wolf — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:47:13 +0000

I think MySpace is just blocking Photobucket content to show users “who’s boss”. Fortunately, there are alternatives, such as ImageShack and TinyPic. Until MySpace lifts the unfair blockade, keep those sites in mind.

By: Webszene

Webszene — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:41:59 +0000

Photobucket von Myspace ausgesperrt…

Der größte Social Network Betreiber MySpace wird kleinlich. Photopucket, einer der größten Photohosting Dienste hat bekannt gegeben das Myspace bei Photobucket gehostetes Bildmaterial nicht mehr in den MySpace Profilen anzeigen lässt.
Da Photobuck…

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:25:03 +0000

Is it really a suprise to anyone that turning myspace into a corporate money machine was the kiss of death? Who really cares where it goes from here? It was done a long time ago.

By: Gene Burns

Gene Burns — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:20:13 +0000

A misleading quote from the Photobucket CEO in a CNET news article on the subject:

“We’re not expecting to see a significant effect on our business from this,” Welch said. “Only about 25 to 30 percent of our total registered users link to MySpace.”

While at face value this may be true, what he’s not admitting is that 80-85% of Photobucket’s ACTIVE users link to MySpace. Photobucket is way more dependent upon MySpace than they would ever admit or have you believe. Any entity considering buying this company ought to take a good long hard look at their user logs. They say they link to 300,000 websites but 299,999 of them represent 10-15% of their total linking activity. Part of their ad pitch is being able to tell advertisers such as movie companies that their ads will get embedded in MySpace for a fraction of the cost of paying for ads on MySpace…AND they’ll get embedded in the content, an even better value than buying the banners at the top of the MySpace pages. Unfortunately, that game has been declared over by MySpace so now Photobucket is going to have to find another business model. Can you hear that sound? It’s Photobucket’s valuation falling. Photobucket’s exec team may not be biting their nails but the company’s investors sure as hell are…

Here’s the link to the article.

http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-6175272.html

By: Eric Schmidt

Eric Schmidt — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:40:56 +0000

To Alex,

There is no cause for concern. I love what you’ve done with Photobucket. I think it is a great business, with a very loyal consumer base. Just keep focusing on building the culture, and growing the quality of users. Don’t let other people’s fear create a barrier between you and your users. It’s our users that are the real heroes of the business.