I’m in two minds over the new Myspace news site. On the one hand, there are some major clangers, including the fact it’s not even linked to the main Myspace site! And there’s no incentive to participate, and build a profile etc.
And on the other hand it’s not very good.
There’s a more details synopsis of the flaws in the launch on Medialoper .
I’ve seen major corporations take a stab at the social network thing and miss the point before, but when you’ve got an audience as big as Myspace’s it takes quite a lot to completely louse it up. So I still think that in 6 months to a year, I’d still bet on it being a major site for news aggregation, and many of the issues will have been tweaked and changed.
Then again, the original Myspace social network is still as clunky and flawed as ever, as it trundles on, populated by unsigned bands and hopeful glamour models.
Incidentally, if you were considering hitching your trailer to the long caravan behind the social bandwagon, it’s worth looking at the following diagram, from Yahoo’s Head of Technology Development…
