I checked a while ago to see that it still existed. Though i have never used Myspace for anything more than to help my son setup (pimp) his profile. The largest fundamental mistake Mike made was to allow the bug that allowed css injection to become a feature. The number one thing that lead to FaceBooks success was the stable consistent UI (User Interface).
You ask people what is more important stability or the ability to express their individuality a lot are going to say the later. In software the first is more important. This is the whole reason frameworks that give a common interface are used today. Unlike in the wild wild west when everyone wrote their own framework.
People left Myspace for FaceBook because facebook gave a unified interface that once learned remained consistent. The fact that on Myspace an individual user could move around virtually everything including system menus meant that going to someone else's profile could feel like an entirely different interface you had to learn all over again. This was awesome for kids, they loved to play with it. It is what caused a large migration of older people just trying to stay in touch with their family to find refuge in a more consistent and thus in their eyes more stable Facebook. It is one of the very few things FB ever did right. To bad they screwed up in all the other categories as soon as they became the largest and defacto Social Media platform on the Internet.
Unus Nemo
in reply to Blaise • •@Blaise
I checked a while ago to see that it still existed. Though i have never used Myspace for anything more than to help my son setup (pimp) his profile. The largest fundamental mistake Mike made was to allow the bug that allowed css injection to become a feature. The number one thing that lead to FaceBooks success was the stable consistent UI (User Interface).
You ask people what is more important stability or the ability to express their individuality a lot are going to say the later. In software the first is more important. This is the whole reason frameworks that give a common interface are used today. Unlike in the wild wild west when everyone wrote their own framework.
People left Myspace for FaceBook because facebook gave a unified interface that once learned remained consistent. The fact that on Myspace an individual user could move around virtually everything including system menus meant that going to someone else's profile could feel like an entirely different interface you had to learn all over again. This was awesome for kids, they loved to play with it. It is what caused a large migration of older people just trying to stay in touch with their family to find refuge in a more consistent and thus in their eyes more stable Facebook. It is one of the very few things FB ever did right. To bad they screwed up in all the other categories as soon as they became the largest and defacto Social Media platform on the Internet.