MySpace has just launched its official toolbar, giving users immediate access to their MySpace activity notifications regardless of what site they’re currently browsing on the web. MySpace has been testing the browser plugin since last year (we originally wrote about it in December), but it was only available to a limited number of users. Beginning today, it will be available internationally to all users, and the site will begin to publicize it.
The toolbar is available on Windows for Firefox and IE users, as well as on Mac for Firefox (there’s no Safari support yet). You can grab it on this page, which also includes a nifty interactive demo of the toolbar so you can get a feel for it before installing the plugin.
Using the toolbar, MySpace members can update and keep track of their status updates, messages, comments, and other alerts. The toolbar also includes links to a variety of MySpace’s services, along with its Google-powered search engine. I don’t think I’ve installed a browser toolbar since around 2002, but there’s no question that many of MySpace’s devoted users will love to get their friend requests and messages in real time.
There have been a handful of unofficial MySpace toolbars released in the past, but they are occasionally broken when MySpace rolls out site updates and had to use scraping to detect status changes. But while they may not offer the same functionality and stability as the official plugin, some of them do offer one nifty feature that the official toolbar doesn’t have: the ability to hit a button to ‘Simplify’ a MySpace user’s profile, removing the irritating flare that some users seem to love so much.
They seemed to have clashed with their 3rd party developers on releasing their own toolbar (switch to facebook! lol)… But it looks better and seems to simplify a lot of the functionalities.
TechFilipino
I Have Had The Myspace Toolbar On My IE For Quite Awhile. Never Use It Because I Use Flock For All My Social Networking.
I like it already!!!
-JP
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It’s about time! It seems they’ve been lying low for awhile and Facebook has been stealing all the attention…. C-mon Tom, spice it up
@MatthewLoop
They will always get attention on the music side and I must say they should stick there… Just keep building on that niche, and find newer and newer ways to solve this music industry stuff…
And they’re already making 1 billion dollars in revenue… They should just focus and not gather too much noise…
MySpace is definitely good for music, that and girls looking for attention! Although I moved from MySpace to Last.fm as I prefer that for discovering new music!
personally, i hate myspace, but from my past experiences, i know the kiddies will love it. i remember leaving a browser open to my activity page and every minute or so, as i broswer the web in another browser, i would refresh the page in anticipation. this should be a big hit with the myspacers. might help them catch up a little to their closing in race with facebook.
Toolbars everyone hates. They should instead make a browser button.
All we need is an RSS feed of friend updates and bulletins… I’d return to MySpace more often to read up on the news that artists and musicians put out…
Hmmm… A personalised twitter account with that info that I could follow would be delicious too!
There’s a MySpace Google gadget for iGoogle that gives you this. I like it because it pops up on my Google page and lets me know if there’s anything worth checking out.
Hm… I have to disagree with you.
Toolbar is something that
1. gives you much more usability (quick access, comfortable work and so on)
2. works as an advertising (often reminds you of the website, attracts to visit it)
So, benefits are for both sides.
Great…. another freakin toolbar… To add to the collection of 500 other ones.
LOL
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But does it offer an easy way to log in/out of multiple accounts? No! Does application do that? NO!!
toolbar from a company based in spam…great
OneRiot has a MySpace Toolbar that is loaded with real-time search and with a couple of other features like the ’simplify button’ to clean up messy profile pages: http://www.oner.../product/addons
Ya, the Oneriot toolbar is great. the design is better, and provides less of a branded experience. A much better tool for the users.
That is a very nice toolbar, I was skeptical initially to install it on my browser.
Just what I wanted, another toolbar.
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