Comments on: PhotoBucket Back on MySpace (I Want To Know The Backstory)

By: amy jo johnson bikini

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By: Ghosts Of My Life Productions » Blog Archive » Facebook Feedback Focus

Ghosts Of My Life Productions » Blog Archive » Facebook Feedback Focus — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:50:30 +0000

[...] a broader strategy. One which is quite clearly intelligent, based on the failure of Friendster, and the current (self-imposed) travails of MySpace: Facebook [...]

By: » MySpace and Photobucket are friends again | The Social Web | ZDNet.com

Tue, 22 May 2007 22:35:11 +0000

[...] Arrington makes the point that it may be that News Corp. had underestimated the user and media backlash over the blockage, [...]

By: SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 24, 2007

SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 24, 2007 — Tue, 22 May 2007 17:34:14 +0000

[...] PhotoBucket Back on MySpace (I Want To Know The Backstory), TechCrunch [...]

By: Imeem Is One Tough Startup. But Maybe Not Tough Enough.

Imeem Is One Tough Startup. But Maybe Not Tough Enough. — Wed, 16 May 2007 07:19:50 +0000

[...] widgets, supposedly because of fears of copyright infringement. Unlike the Photobucket ban, which lasted just a week, the Imeem ban looks to be [...]

By: Publictivity.com Blog » Now That’s Negotiating- Myspace/News Corp Buying Photobucket

Wed, 09 May 2007 05:39:02 +0000

[...] Valleywag has the exclusive that Myspace/News Corp is Buying Photobucket. The price isn’t disclosed. Now with the events that have been going on, I’m sure this has been one hell of a negotiation by News Corp. Here’s how I think it went aka Mike this is your backstory: [...]

By: Confirmed: MySpace To Acquire Photobucket For $250 Million

Confirmed: MySpace To Acquire Photobucket For $250 Million — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:48:52 +0000

[...] The companies have been in serious acquisition discussions for the last couple of weeks - A dispute that involved Photobucket videos being blocked on MySpace led to acquisition discussions, and the block was removed. [...]

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:17:53 +0000

MySpace still lags behind technologically. I hope they will acquire a company like Xanga and move forward.

By: jared

jared — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:11:27 +0000

sounds like this was in response to some sort of vulnerability. when one of the channels on your cable goes out, do you automatically assume that the local cable provider has decided to block CSPAN or ESPN? sheesh.

By: Andrew Chen

Andrew Chen — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:34:29 +0000

Hi guys,
Here’s an analysis on what might become a stable situation in the widget world, where widgets are the new ad network:

http://andrewchen.typepad.com/....._netw.html

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:21:58 +0000

Crunchback: I’m not arguing that. They’re perfectly within their rights to do what they did. I just think there are better ways to approach the situation than locking out services, services that MySpace users obviously enjoy, without warning or discussion.

There are better ways to get their piece of the ad pie than bringing the hammer swiftly down, is all I’m saying.

By: Bill K

Bill K — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:01:02 +0000

I keep telling my friends in bands not to put all their web eggs in the myspace basket for this exact reason.

By: sean percival

sean percival — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:50:25 +0000

They are also starting to filter HTML post data even further now. By rewriting links to a redirect off their own server they now have better control over what gets through. More details here:

http://socialham.com/2007/04/2.....ing-links/

By: Profy.Com

Profy.Com — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:08:38 +0000

MySpace Admits Photobucket Clips Once Again…

A couple of weeks after MySpace said nein! to embedded videos originating on Photobucket, the News Corp-owned social networking site took down the barrier it had erected in retaliation for the inclusion of advertisements shown in the streams of Phot…

By: CrunchBack

CrunchBack — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:51:06 +0000

I’m with Alexander on this one - and as I previously wrote, MySpace can certainly expect to get paid for ads that appear on its properties when embedded in a widget.

Perhaps PhotoBucket is the “jerk” here for trying to profit from the ride that MySpace was giving them without sharing the wealth…

Think about it…

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:18:27 +0000

@ Alexander Muse: I never said they were some paragon of human virtue, and I get that MySpace is a business, not a non-profit with my best interests at heart. I’m not sure where you got that idea.

My point is that arbitrarily blocking widgets just because they can, until the creators pay up or the outrage reaches critical mass, is a jerk thing to do. It’s inconveniencing their users and making the site look bad.

It’s a bit like Viacom pulling all their clips from YouTube: what they did was well within their rights as a business, but certainly not something I’d recommend doing, and considering the PR backlash, it might be counterproductive in the long run.

By: David

David — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:47:42 +0000

Interesting development last night on myspace it appears that they have changed the process that users can upload HTML code. There have been a few companies that have figured out how to automatically send a widget or picture to someones profile page by screen scraping. Apparently MySpace has figured this out and now every time you update your profile page you are prompted with a scramble code that you have to enter.

By: Startup Meme » MySpace Lifts The Ban On Photobucket Videos

Startup Meme » MySpace Lifts The Ban On Photobucket Videos — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:42:52 +0000

[...] an elaborate PR campaign against MySpace asking their users to take the battle to the keyboards. Techcrunch wants to know who blinked first and why, where as Mashable thinks that this is a surprising move on [...]

By: KR

KR — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:46:55 +0000

reminiscent of the paypal/ebay dustups chronicled in the “PayPal Wars” by Eric Johnson. ebay tried to use heavy handed tactics to disrupt PayPal’s popularity and promote its own BillPoint service. that one ended with eBay discontinuing its BillPoint service and buying PayPal for around $1.5 billion.

in the end, these “bans” are not good for the site with the traffic (myspace), since the community is the one that gets negatively impacted. the value-add provider (photobucket) gains if the users complain enough. if the myspace users do not complain, then the value-add service is not valuable enough to raise a fuss. at that point, the value-add providers position is severely weakened. myspace underestimated the popularity and importance of photobucket, and have lost their hammer against them. myspace is supposed to care about its user community right?

By: Steve Morsa

Steve Morsa — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:21:26 +0000

Regardless of details of how/why it happened; and it’s nice to see PhotoB regain access; because it’s News Corp/MySpace’s house, they’re soley entitled to set the rules for anyone who wants to come in.

Anyone who doesn’t like their rules can always go build their own house.

By: Alexander Muse

Alexander Muse — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:16:13 +0000

Why does this make MySpace seem like jerks? If MySpace had built their business on justice, democracy and altruism I could see how one could characterize their actions as ‘jerky’. The opposite has been true from the start. The MySpace folks are not in it to create a community for the benefit of mankind, instead they are in it for a buck. What is wrong with that? There is room for MySpace as well as quasi-democratic services such as Wikipedia. Chill out Greg…

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:13:50 +0000

This strategy of MySpace will not endear any of its users. It is better for other companies not to rely on MySpace, they should work with other networking companies, who will respond better to their needs.

By: www.techtagg.com - See Tech Taggers view on this story!

www.techtagg.com - See Tech Taggers view on this story! — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:10:31 +0000

PhotoBucket Back on MySpace (I Want To Know The Backstory)…

A simple blog post on Photobucket tells us that the war is over - PhotoBucket videos are now allowed on MySpace again after a two week ban. But the interesting part of this story is what I don’t know yet - who blinked first and why. I’ve asked Phot…

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:52:25 +0000

This really makes MySpace seem like a bunch of jerks, especially because they’ve done it repeatedly. Every time they remind widget makers of the MySpace Sword of Damocles by pulling this move, they look worse.

By: Kreig Zimmerman

Kreig Zimmerman — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:50:40 +0000

It’s probably bloody obvious to many, but MySpace is going about this the wrong way. They could easily have an “official partnership” program, with ad revenue sharing… let’s say, a “Reverse-AdSense”.

My guess, of course, is that this is being driven from Fox Corporate, who want to keep all the marbles to themselves (and make the acquisition pay for itself). It’ll be interesting to see what happens but they are presently creating a vast chasm between what MySpace could be and what they want out of it.

Fox better hope no other company slips into that gap. Of course they can have confidence in exploiting MySpace’s dominant position, but that could always change…