If I owned photobucket, I would be looking to sell ASAP.

Facebook doesn’t allow widgets so people can’t move there. You can move to Bebo, TagWorld, etc.

That, to my mind was when we really hit the bubble, because I believe Excite only had about half that money in the bank. They gambled that they’d be able to IPO on the strength of that deal and use that cash to finance. They were right in the short term, though it all collapsed in the long term.

I wonder if something similar will happen here.

I have photobucket images on myspace right now. If you use slide.com, they allow you to pull photos from any popular photo hosting site to create a somewhat customized slide show and it can be placed on myspace.

Therefore, myspace still has photobucket images on their site. And, you can do it without having to upload all your pictures to another host.

True, MySpace isn’t the end all and be all. I’m just saying that most people would rather dump Photobucket than dump MySpace if forced to make a choice.

BTW I still don’t believe in Photbucket’s business model. Making money from displaying ads to uploaders but not viewers - IMHO I won’t be surprised if the whole thing is a house of cards propped up by VC money and tons of “traffic”.

;))

But if they’re violating TOS - U would think MySpace would have the decency to work something out with a co. like PhotoBucket that allowed Peeps to Glitter up their MS Ride* I was shocked to see PB has 17 Million users to Flickr’s 7M*

Obviously relates to everyone linking their Pix to MS huge community*

Facebook having 3Million Canadian users was a shocker too*

I suppose PhotoBucket will survive but will hope Google or Yahoo! or Fox pop the Magic Purse Strings just 1 Mo’ Time!!

;))

Actually, rebuilding your friends list of hundreds of people and getting them all to join a different social network takes way more time than uploading your videos.

time for a new myspace. hi5 isn’t it, nor is tagworld, bebo or tagged. facebook is too restrictive and hard to use for the non-techie boomers (which is the fastest growing new segment of MS now).

someone step up to the plate, willya?

i think most web users at this point have a few places they go and engage. even if it doesn’t look like myspace or offer the same experience, it’s all the same in the business: they’re competitors.

Wait a month after the press dies down and more myspace users have edited their profile, and I bet photbucket loses a large amount of traffic.

Quit them and go where?

Facebook? Uh. Huh. and Facebook will allow Photobucket to leech off its success by allowing Photobucket to put ads in its videos?

Riiight. Its not about MySpace being greedy dudes. Its time people realize that Widgets have no real business models EXCEPT getting acquired by a big dumb company with too much money… like Google.

MySpace unceremoniously dumped PhotoBucket late Tuesday night, adding the popular photo and video-sharing site to a list of companies that MySpace has restricted access to. MySpace claims that PhotoBucket was violating their TOS by generating add reven…

IMHO this the era of the access too. Could Mr. Murdoc a.k.a by theirself as a “Digital Emigrant” understand that if myspace is more open (for example, myspace API) is more useful for their users? Amazon did it. And others too.

1) They are now 100% advertiser focused, more ads, more flashy things, more annoyance.

2) There owned by Fox, as is Fox News, and I can’t think of anything less cool than that.

3) The main draw to MySpace was freedom, you could add widgets, change colors, all kinds of things that allowed people to express themselves. With more and more restriction you get less and less engagement.

4) SPAM - its way over crowded and spam is out of control

My opinion on PB: this is a major setback. While they owe a huge amount of their success to MS, I think they have made some smart diversification moves that may allow them to weather the storm.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/2...../index.htm

“We’re fad-proof,” he declares. “If one social networking site goes away and another comes up the user just moves, but their content stays with Photobucket.” He tries hard not to compete with the sites where his users congregate, which he calls “the social edge.” “We focus very much on not being a community,” Welch explains. “We let the communities build around us.”

@ Mike, I know. The MySpace guy sounded like he/she couldn’t comment, and I was saying it appeared one could. Except you, of course

I remember the good old “what’s a blog” debate. If I have to register to comment, then forget it. Why block your users with a hurdle? Personally, I think that’s even worse than not allowing comments at all.