The MySpace redesign that Michael wrote about last week is now live to all of its users. The design is much cleaner, with fewer tabs across the top of the homepage and drop-down menus for everything else. Navigation in general, has been completely revamped to reduce the number of clicks it takes to get to what members want.
Search has also been improved, ranking results based on your social graph (friends show up first). The new search is based on the open-source Lucene search engine. MySpaceTV has also been redesigned, with higher resolution video in 480p.
According to comScore, MySpace had 73.7 million unique U.S. visitors in May, and 115.7 million worldwide in April. (Facebook, by comparison, had 35.7 million unique visitors in the U.S. in May and 116.4 million visitors worldwide in April, surpassing MySpace for the first time globally).
One of the big criticisms against MySpace is that its design was way too chaotic and did not keep up with the times. This redesign begins to address those concerns and shows that MySpace can clean up its act without giving up the ability for every member to customize their MySpace page exactly to their tastes (or lack thereof).
I felt like I was logging into a commercial…
The problem is not with just the design, it is with the fact that MySpace still requires more clicks to use than Facebook. The site is clunky and Facebook’s new profile is far better than Myspaces.
I’m predicting the following comments will contain hundreds of comparisons to facebook and a multitude of claims that myspace is dead, but no actual insight.
New design ???? Thats just a new header lol… theres nothing more…
It looks like Facebook.
Its great work even so though.
it looks like they are getting rid of cf slowly but surely
its still ugly….
good luck rupert murdoch
prepare to be disrupted
-srini
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Did it seem a lot slower for anyone else?
Wow, Olly - that’s a bold, insightful prediction.
the older I get the more I feel that
facebook = communist Russia/China
&
myspace = USA
(we want CONFORMITY! we demand that everyone’s page be exactly the same! Individualism = BAD!)
::takes cover under desk::
They were talking about this on the feed on Attack of the Show on Monday.
I think it’s ok, but I liked the old style better. At any rate, the textboxes are still static instead of movable windows like pageflakes.
I of course meant the boxes with the information such as bulletins ,ect.. MySpace never did RSS for those. I think having them like pageflakes would be much cooler. That will be implemented VERY soon,
…. on some other social network.
Imagine if you logged into myspace, landed on your home page, and all the boxes were draggable with close, minimize and maximize windows, along with a multiple desktop tab and you could change the RSS sources.
Visit my link in about 3 days.
Well, it’s a step in the right direction, but it still neds some work. Maybe it’s just me, but I found that the mouseover effects on the links could be a tictch faster. MySpace’s coding and styling practices have long been the worst of any of the Web 2.0 sites, but I think there’s still a lot of room for improvement here. For a company that well funded, design and coding honestly shouldn’t be this hard for them.
I don’t like it.. I prefer the old version
all I can see is a new menu! the rest is the same
@15, they should have kept Duc. He was the best programmer there.
As soon as he left, they scaled it way up and left it as is and stopped developing new features almost completely.
Their scaling is still way off. You get at least 4 errors per visit.
That’s what you get for using MS SQL.
@6: CF is long gone. .NET does the heavy lifting now, with the old .cfm URLs mapped to .NET stuff
@treff
facebook = communist Russia/China
&
myspace = USA
(we want CONFORMITY! we demand that everyone’s page be exactly the same! Individualism = BAD!)
Since myspace has more flexibility than facebook when it comes to appearance, wouldn’t that make the conformists facebook users, not myspace ones?
It may look better but I get more errors now than I ever did. It’s been a constant error-fest on my computer screen.
stevef thanks
Myspace is not as elegant as Facebook but it is more social in terms of launching bands or sharing music and movies. Facebook does have its fair share of junk. Or applications as they are known.
Its a great improvement than what it was 1 year ago. MySpace is like Digg as Facebook is to Reddit.
Clarification:
MySpace uses Lucene.NET — the .Net port of Lucene, not the Java Lucene which is normally called simply Lucene.
(Otis, Java Lucene developer)
Seems like the missing piece of every review is how this affects theming and appearance mods. Has it improved there?
Peter@23: Yeah, maybe if spamming a 640×480 rave flyer in your comment feed qualifies as “launching” or “sharing.” Rupert has his finger on the pulse!
“dere $friend HAY CHECK OUT OUR NEW CD!!!11″
I can’t even sing on from my sidekick and mostly evry1 sings in from a sidekick now a days
This new verion sucks….
Yea I use my sidekick lx as well and was frustrated I was unable to log on today.
ding dong, myspace is dead. r.i.p. 2011.
Some of my thoughts on the redesign: http://tinyurl.com/3elfrs
@Andy Schweig
see you in one year from now with the exact same comment replaced with the word facebook
ciao
any improvement is good news as always, facebook does have a cleaner interface but it’s much harder to use. also for those of you on facebook with friends all over facebook is too cumbersome it locks you onto a local network and blocks you from contacting, seing or searching for your friends in other networks to me at least i just don’t see the point. at least on myspace the usa is my local network.
ok i am very happy with myspace…but if you guys dont like it then why are you guys using myspace i men hello
its the only way wher all you hoes make money so if i wher you i wouldn’t be talking!!…=D MONA!!!
were about rewarding my misguided for kids still there. could reach.
For those of you that emailed me about my previous comment, I’d like to say thanks and would you be so kind to instead next time post your responses here inside this blog instead! Thank you, for finding me too, you guys are good
Anyhow my original post mentioned that you cannot search for friends outside of your chosen network on facebook, i only meant if they aren’t already on your friends listing, if they are part of your friends listing then facebook behaves very much like mypsace for sending emails and etc. When I did research on how to find your friends outside of your chosen network, i saw posts that facebook was deleting profiles for people being logged into the wrong network. So… I guess that i’m stuck inside the orlando network and can’t search outside of it yet many of my friends i have elsewhere in the us cannot see me neither, the ones i have now outside my network i found through other friends i had already locally. NOTE: The posts about facebook deleting accounts that join networks outside the zip code onfile might’ve very well been rumours, i do not know. AND this is only my opinion as i’m sure that facebook has their own reasons for running their social network within divisions it just doesn’t make any sense to me that’s all. As I said earlier at least on myspace i do not have to worry about silly things such as these as the US is my local network. Thanks again for your emails, and again please post your replies here in the future. PS oh one last comment in response to your emails — So i have a lame facebook account so what?
The new design is soo stupid! U can’t even logggg on from sidekicks anym0re. How will they fix thisss?! Stupid peopleeeee.
Its the platform that’s the problem. First mover advantage is powerful but being simple to use is the path to sustainable competitive advantage.