Comments on: MySpace Blocking Mobile Users In Australia http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/ Startup and Technology News Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:10:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: [MySpace] Le ultime notizie - 29/10/07 | MondoBlog http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-2133052 [MySpace] Le ultime notizie - 29/10/07 | MondoBlog Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:42:53 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-2133052 [...] In Australia non si pò visitare MySpace dal telefonino [...] [...] In Australia non si pò visitare MySpace dal telefonino [...]

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]]> By: Dipping into the Blogpond http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1653874 Dipping into the Blogpond Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:24:46 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1653874 <strong>Walled Garden Mentality...</strong> I am at a loss to understand the walled garden mentality. Optus has sewn up a deal with MySpace whereby they paid MySpace for the privilege of exclusivity…. So you see it’s all about creating monopolies. And if you want to be included in th... Walled Garden Mentality…

I am at a loss to understand the walled garden mentality. Optus has sewn up a deal with MySpace whereby they paid MySpace for the privilege of exclusivity…. So you see it’s all about creating monopolies. And if you want to be included in th…

]]> By: Duncan Riley http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1648249 Duncan Riley Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:14:28 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1648249 Brent yes (pardon the pun). Brent
yes (pardon the pun).

]]> By: David http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1647575 David Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:47:25 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1647575 I can't agree to the moralistic reference to "greed." This is just bad business on the part of MySpace. The purpose of business is to make money through providing services that are valuable. By many definitions, greed should prompt you to make lots of money by creating a valuable service and catering to your customers, thus putting them first. This isn't greed, it's just short-sighted and dumb. I can’t agree to the moralistic reference to “greed.” This is just bad business on the part of MySpace. The purpose of business is to make money through providing services that are valuable. By many definitions, greed should prompt you to make lots of money by creating a valuable service and catering to your customers, thus putting them first. This isn’t greed, it’s just short-sighted and dumb.

]]> By: boo http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1647207 boo Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:10:02 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1647207 Its blocked if your a Vodafone user in the UK too. tells you to pay £1.50 a month for the myspace app. Myspace are idiots, who is gonna wanna be on Vodafone when you can browse the site for free on the other networks. makes no sense. Its blocked if your a Vodafone user in the UK too. tells you to pay £1.50 a month for the myspace app. Myspace are idiots, who is gonna wanna be on Vodafone when you can browse the site for free on the other networks. makes no sense.

]]> By: John Foster http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1647200 John Foster Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:05:03 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1647200 MySpace is also blocking T-Mobile USA from the mobile site. After reading on TechCrunch that the MySpace mobile page would be in beta on Monday I was able to get in all day on Sunday and Monday. Tuesday it was down with a message saying a new MySpace mobile would be open "tomorrow". Surprise! On Wednesday I'm redirected from mobile.myspace.com to www.myspace.com. I'm not sure why they are doing this since I doubt the exclucivity they are providing would add up to the number of ad page views they would get if it were available to everyone. Facebook is definately ahead by allowing WAP access to their site. The unfortunate thing is that the niche of DJs, musicians, and other artists/entertainers is held by MySpace. It's going to take some time to get people off MySpace and most of them aren't going to move along because they have an audience where they are. MySpace is also blocking T-Mobile USA from the mobile site. After reading on TechCrunch that the MySpace mobile page would be in beta on Monday I was able to get in all day on Sunday and Monday. Tuesday it was down with a message saying a new MySpace mobile would be open “tomorrow”. Surprise! On Wednesday I’m redirected from mobile.myspace.com to http://www.myspace.com.

I’m not sure why they are doing this since I doubt the exclucivity they are providing would add up to the number of ad page views they would get if it were available to everyone. Facebook is definately ahead by allowing WAP access to their site. The unfortunate thing is that the niche of DJs, musicians, and other artists/entertainers is held by MySpace. It’s going to take some time to get people off MySpace and most of them aren’t going to move along because they have an audience where they are.

]]> By: Thierry Schellenbach http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1647075 Thierry Schellenbach Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:28:43 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1647075 I feel the article doesn't really analyze the situation properly. Off course, pissing of your users for money is not good in terms that it will loose you users. However they are making money with these type of deals. As long as they can buy more users with the money they make than they actually loose from these blocking some out they are doing just fine. It might get them a bad name with the tech community, but their advertising dollars might create an entirely different story for the community as a whole. Probably in this case they are indeed loosing out by doing this, but you can not really conclude that they are insane, unless you know how much money they are getting out of it. I feel the article doesn’t really analyze the situation properly.

Off course, pissing of your users for money is not good in terms that it will loose you users.

However they are making money with these type of deals.

As long as they can buy more users with the money they make than they actually loose from these blocking some out they are doing just fine.

It might get them a bad name with the tech community, but their advertising dollars might create an entirely different story for the community as a whole.

Probably in this case they are indeed loosing out by doing this, but you can not really conclude that they are insane, unless you know how much money they are getting out of it.

]]> By: Brent http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1646839 Brent Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:51:09 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1646839 Great post Duncan. But just curious if you were viewing the iphone facebook site from an iphone on the Optus network? Great post Duncan. But just curious if you were viewing the iphone facebook site from an iphone on the Optus network?

]]> By: Richard http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1646761 Richard Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:44:38 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1646761 I had a similar issue with Vodafone (UK) blocking my mobile access to Skype.com. Their mobile content filtering (which is installed as standard... well was when I bought my phone) is designed to stop access to undesirable sites (think Porn etc)... well according to their service Skype.com is included in sites worth blocking! I captured this on my blog at the time: http://inbabble.com/2007/05/10/vodafone-blocking-skypecom-website/ I had a similar issue with Vodafone (UK) blocking my mobile access to Skype.com.

Their mobile content filtering (which is installed as standard… well was when I bought my phone) is designed to stop access to undesirable sites (think Porn etc)… well according to their service Skype.com is included in sites worth blocking!

I captured this on my blog at the time: http://inbabble.com/2007/05/10.....m-website/

]]> By: PTC http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1646693 PTC Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:42:41 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1646693 I agree that putting profit before users won't prove beneficial, at least, when there is a close competitor trying get your position. I agree that putting profit before users won’t prove beneficial, at least, when there is a close competitor trying get your position.

]]> By: Duncan Riley http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1646670 Duncan Riley Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:15:41 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1646670 Matt apologies and corrected...but you got the idea which counts :-) Matt
apologies and corrected…but you got the idea which counts :-)

]]> By: Matt Milosavljevic http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1646662 Matt Milosavljevic Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:11:16 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1646662 Interesting post Duncan, but I assume you meant it isn't good putting profit before users instead of vice versa. Interesting post Duncan, but I assume you meant it isn’t good putting profit before users instead of vice versa.

]]> By: Daniel Hollister http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1646659 Daniel Hollister Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:09:25 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/26/greed-isnt-good-myspace-blocking-mobile-users/#comment-1646659 This makes me absolutely sick. When are companies going to learn that the time for exclusion is up? Give your users what they want or they're going to move to a provider who will. The era of intentionally limiting your market to increase your value (and earn extra cash for yourself and your co-conspirators) is over. This makes me absolutely sick. When are companies going to learn that the time for exclusion is up? Give your users what they want or they’re going to move to a provider who will. The era of intentionally limiting your market to increase your value (and earn extra cash for yourself and your co-conspirators) is over.

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