MySpace continues to clean up the look and feel of its site with the launch of a new profile and editor. It’s not ready for mainstream U.S. use yet, so they’ve unleashed it on Canadian users for testing (anyone can try it out though, see below).
This is the next stage in their ongoing effort to make the site more usable for people who aren’t comfortable with a no-rules, add-your-own-html interface. In June they launched the first part of MySpace 2.0, which reduced clutter on the site significantly.
The new changes give users much more control over their profile. Instead of having to add html and Javascript to the site directly, or using third party profile editors like SnapLayout, users can simply view their profile in a Flash tool that lets them set a variety of templates, drag and drop modules, and customize the site. Users can also set each specific module’s privacy so that only certain groups of friends see it, so work friends can see a different site than college buddies.
I’ve been trying out the new tool, you can see my MySpace page here.
You don’t have to be Canadian to try out the new profile and editor. Just visit MySpace Canada directly and sign in. You’ll see a link to try the new Profile 2.0 on the home page. Just a note - it won’t work with IE6.
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they’re done, its facebook now
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no, you can still make it look like your college dorm room if you want.
I think you wanted to say “you can still make it look like a lame imitation of facebook if you want.”?
It’s more Virb than Facebook.
Not so much a walled garden as a walled buffet, amirite?
Clean!
reminds me of ning. myspac will forever lack business and self promotion acumen. business and labor will never use a myspace profile as a business channel for selfpromotion or marketing. a jobseeker will never say go to myspac and see my references. no business will say visit my business profile on myspac. they may say go to linkedout in or fadbook. myspac has a “first impression issue.”
People that use myspac are lazy
People that use myspac party all the time
People that use myspac love to waste time
People that use myspac are in unstable relationships
Businesses that use myspac are pyramid pushers
Businesses that use myspac are just startin out
Businesses that use myspac are spammers
Businesses that use myspac are fly by night companies.
bottomline is myspac will never be a “serious” social contender for businesses or self promotion. businesses and users dont go to myspac to get there life or busness together. most go there to escape the important things in life. have fun.
ProfileLocator.com- who are you?
I agree with you
but
check it
visualcv.com
I saw it already and its very nice and awesome, I like it so much.
“You’ll see a link to try the new Profile 2.0 on the home page. Just a note - it won’t work with IE6.”
MySpace needs a QA team. BTW, I am dissolving Orj11 LLC on Monday with the California State secretary.
http://www.sos.ca.gov/business.....-7_4-8.pdf
I am going to work on a new business oriented social platform with LBS and Open Social.
Basically, myself and 2 other coders are going to recreate Novell Evolution but for social networking.
If business can’t use it, it’s worthless in today’s economy. End user $$$ is gone. Once our new Evolution style social product is ready next year, I will refile and start another company to sell it as a service and as software.
Good luck MySpace. MySpace is like the only company that turned a profit with this social crap on ad revenue having a full staff and development team, so they deserve a medal.
I am aslo about to work on similar project
That’s cool. Companies need their own corporate version of a social network, but they need it to integrate with their office suite directly.
Ning, MySpace and the others are no good to SMEs.
It has to stay on the intranet, and there lies a good market for p2p and social networks.
This realeditor/trueditor/tagworld style editor is ok, but it’s not going to fix the fact that social networking was never profitable..
You need 5-20 programmers working on integrating an intranet business themed social network you can license to Evolution, MS Office, and to Google Enterprise with the Gmail and enterprise API ect…
These social networking “customers” are sh1t for revenue.
No handy profile tool is going to change that. I’ve been doing social networking for years and I know.
And unlike what Rupert Murdoch thinks this ISN’T the online version of his newspaper business. Social networking is infinitely worth less, unless it can be sold as an enterprise solution.
Kickapps is ok, but really not business oriented. That’s really the last bastian of growth that can generate revenue from this chaotic sinkhole of a mess that started in 2004-2005.
I prefer it over the recently changed FB layout.
MySpace needs a really big motivator for people to switch over to it; I’m just not seeing it. Though MySpace Music was a nice touch.
Ah few it still takes at least 45 seconds to load your profile, good ol’ MySpace!
No you and your comp just fail
This is biggest news that mySpace launched web 2.0 profile style.
myspace is going to be the best community social site.
Lot of fun for myspace users.
Thanks a lot.
Try this blog: http://www.iboozi.com
Finally people get to experience the new and a way better design. I would still prefer staying on Facebook though!
They just copied the idea from realeditor and trueditor.
Who cares though. None of these things are going to generate revenue for them.
The whole web 2.0 user created content to generate clicks thing is pretty much over.
MySpace made $800 million last year. They are profitable foo’
TagWorld did this years ago. Yawn.
Oh how the mighty have fallen
http://widgets.alexa.com/traff.....2F7QrT0%3D
Tagworld used to be a real contender. Evan must be disappointed.
Greenspan’s vidilife.com survived somewhat, which is a testament to what he intends to do with his new social network release. He is probably hanging on to the traffic to promote his new OTOY site.
I think what we learned with all of this social networking stuff is that people who use these things are unreliable revenue streams. That the good in these networks should be applied to business purposes instead so that the revenue can continue growth. CPM and CPC on social networks are nill.
Sorry the graph doesn’t work,
http://www.alexa.com/data/deta.....gworld.com
Tagworld almost made it up to the top 100 at one point 2-3 years ago.
I’m pretty sure Brad kept vidilife up there with crosslinking and in network traffic.
Question now is: how many teeny boppers will stick around with this clean look.
messing with the layouts is exactly the worst thing myspace could potentially do - it was/is the last differentiator to fb and I see them losing 30%-60% of their userbase within 2-3 years if they force this change or preset profile 2.0 for new users.
This is great. MySpace weak attempt to look sound Web2.0 ish.
I wonder what they do with the $500,000 per day they earn from ads on their home page. Is this the best shiit they could come up with?
Dam what bullshit. Why is 1938media not covering this lame shit. WTF. Loren where are you man.
You know to think of it. This may be BS for the user. But this is excellent for a kick ass new entrant. Both FB and Myspace have done this move. So Hi5 is next.
Then again those 14 year old teens who joined Mysapce 4 years ago are heading to college soon or the work force. So they need a change.
When Hi5 makes their move then all three will look like an old chick trying to stay young and pretty. It just does not work, and is not natural.
All of this will make work so much easier though as they would have shown their cards. So let us assume that FB looses like 20 million users, Myspace looses like 10 million users and Hi5 looses like 7.5 million users to the new entrant in like 3 months.
That would cause a spiral for all three companies and the media hype would cause even more defections as they would no longer be cool for any age group.
I would say such a new entrant would easily attain 50 million users within the first year, and within 3 years be number one globally providing they produce a superior product or a product that the end user really appreciates.
How to you get rid of it!?!?!
i tried it and i want my old profile back.
:[
HELP ME
click on the ‘Undo” botton on the top right
What if you don’t HAVE an undo button? I don’t know what happened, but I do NOT have an undo button on my page for this. I have tried going to several different edit pages, and there is no such thing on my page!!! Grrrr…*bangs head against wall* Stupid BS!!
Simple. Delete your account.
You’re a complete idiot and a jerk.
so what’s a new user gonna think once they see these new profiles?
“hmmm this looks like facebook but it’s not… it looks like some second class clone… so let’s use facebook right away and skip ms”
the far majority of ms users don’t wanna customize - there are 1000nds of layout sites covering every imaginable topic: copy&paste css code, done.
there must be alot of facebook employees posting today in this thread. last i checked the topic was MySpace Launches Profile 2.0 With Drag And Drop Interface, but instead all the facebook fanboys or employees took over and made it into a facebook discussion. last i checked myspace is still kicking facebook azz in market share in the usa. does zuckersteal pay you guys/gals extra to spam every myspace topic on tech crunch?
to really think of it. MySpace, Hi5, Facebook. Which one really reflects the age of the Internet today and its potential? They all look really simple/very basic.
I wonder what 3D social network portal would look like? Do we need one?
OK, sure you got Ajax here and there, and a few neat tricks. But really which website provides an experience that you can say wow, that was really an experience and I look forward to it again and again?
None of these sites are doing anything special. They are all BS in my book. This is 2008 and Yahoo portal is the same since the 1990’s I guess.
Google is a search engine, so results is what matters and not looks. How many ways can you produce search results for the reader/viewer to fell great about the results? More accurate I suppose based on what the search is about. Thus maybe by percentile?
Ex. the top 10 results for the best head from Female in San Fran would result it what guys say about the girl and not who paid the SEO to get them good rankings.
Or maybe 3D search results for products, so you can see the rotational image of a product in 3D. Hmmm. Sounds like quite a lot of programming here.
Maybe a live search that provides live video feeds in 3D of the search for travel. WOW. So far two new features for search as we no know it. Now that would be live video search search for your assss. Sergy give me a MF call biiaatch.
None of you MF have anything on such a product if it ever hits the market. Of course after this post Google will begin work on the few lines stated above. Just remember to cut my check bitch.
You don’t understand. It’s not about the website, it’s about the users. People want to hook up. They don’t really care too much about the technical aspects. Nor should they.
Greenspan’s cityspace OTOY virtual city is going to be nothing more than a new 2nd life, not a new MySpace
That’s not why people visit social networks.
STFU
considering the recent hype Facebook was getting….I think it is a good move from MySpace. But I dont know why, I still prefer Facebook for some reason. May be it has a better UI.
http://www.livbit.com
http://www.spacetime.com/
God, somebody resurrected Sun Microsystems LookingGlass OS, but they made it even more useless than the original.
AIGLX, Cairo, Glitz and Beryl pretty much eclipsed Looking Glass, and Firefox innovations eclipsed Flock and this.
Useless bling is useless.
Never saw these guys till now. Watching their demo video. Not so cool really. They say 3D but it is not as far as I see it. Especially he eBay example. All I saw was 2D images compiled in a 3D experience.
However they have a slight idea as to what I think could be a value added feature to search.
Mike do a article on this. Is aw the 3D social network but that is more virtual life. Do you have one on search and in the manner in which I think it could be used in Social Networks. Get the thread started dude.
Facebook? Try Uber.com, now defunct. It makes me happy that Myspace isn’t teh suck, sad that they waited till uber died to do this.
is this whole comment section one big spam?
jesus
STFUB
I’m guessing the link is geo served, only to surfers from North America, i can’t see it, i’m at http://ca.myspace.com/ and trying IE7 + Chrome
Got it now, it ain’t Geo problem, going via http://ca.myspace.com isn’t enough.
You need to go to Account Settings > Account > Preferred Site & Language : change to “Canada”.
Good luck
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It looks nice and clean; a great drawback for former users who switched over to facebook for it’s better organization. I also like how you can limit what it says and shows on your profile for different types of users, this will come into good use for a lot of the facebook users who’s potential employers may frown on the photo albums dedicated to that awesome kegger you had last weekend.
About time!!!!
When myspace has planned to release the profile 2.0?
eZanga.com is a search engine that specializes in pay per click advertising, and they recently updated their site adding, HopOnThis.com (their social network). As a HopOnThis member you can stay connected with your family and friends, share pictures and videos, and meet new people. Once you are an active member, HopOnThis rewards you with points (for being an active member and posting comments, inviting friends, etc) you can later trade in for cash and prizes.
HopOnThis.com also gives users control of their profile with features such as advanced privacy settings, numerous templates, and drag-and-drop, just to name few.
I read this post from my cellular phone…and ran home to work on my myspace soon after…haha thanks techcrunch!
This is exciting news to the myspace community in their battle against facebook. I wouldn’t expect it to catch on quickly though.
how do i get rid of it
sumone pleaseeeee help me i neeedddd to get rid of this
it feels too facebook
do i have to wait 90 days to go back to my old profile now? -.-
I can’t find a way to revert my profile back to the original.. i dont like 2.0 grrr!
nevermind i got it.
Heyy i just tried out the 2.0 version and I would like to go back to the orginal. SOMEONE PLEASE GIVE ME A STEP BY STEP to get it back. PLEASE!! I would gladly appreciate it.
Hey guys, does anyone have a step-by-step way to change your profile from 2.0 to the original?
I don’t like 2.0, especially the way you have to have your picture on the top like a flat bar, its disoriented and screws all my stuff up.
Anyway, all help is appreciated, thanks!
Nevermind guys, I found out how to do it, go to the profile editor and then on the top right you can click “Go Back” and it will ask you if you want to stay on 2.0 or go back to 1.0.
thank you thank you i love thank you
hey how do i do it to take off myspace 2.0 i want my old profile back
oh ok never mind i got it
plz
thank god i got my old profile back
Yea, I disliked the new 2.0 version. It’s too cluttered, imo. Had to go back!
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go to profile editor they browse through your links which now go down the side if you have 2.0. on one of them will be basic information etc with some profile pictures of you. underneath the pictures will be a link saying publish customise or something ( i cant remember sorry) click on that. you will come to the 2.0 profile editor. at the top on the right is a link saying go back, click on the link and a box will come on giving you options. click on revert back to 1.0.
hope it helps
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I just ttried it and it dumped all my graphics and looked very boring. can’t believe people would opt for 2.0 instead. I went back to my original which looks a lot classier. I made own page and did not use anyone’s template.