Myspace to be resurrected

Myspace has undergone a massive redesign, but will it make a difference. Back in the day Myspace was the "social network of social networks" (Facebook and Twitter were no where to be seen). Now Myspace is a social grave yard full of dead profiles with Facebook and Twitter now ruling the roost.

I remember a time when logging into Myspace and having millions (slight exaggeration) of strangers friend requesting me, pretending they were earning £250,000 + a year. There would also be a thousand and one profiles of "emo" girls taking photos of themselves poking their tongues out.

Now when I log into Myspace I have a million spam emails (no exaggeration), a thousand event invites and one friend request from a latino model (who's not a real person) claiming to be looking for friendship, has just moved to London and has no friends.



The new Myspace is aimed at musicians and promoters:

"The new feautures (not released in the UK until mid November) will make it easier for users to share and promote content they enjoy and recommend it to their friends. This means users can finally promote themselves or their company within MySpace instead of directing people to their profile page".

This is a clear indication Myspace will not be competing with Facebook and looks like it is going back to it's musical roots.

Well time will tell if Myspace will ever regain it's "top social network" title, but I a now occasional Myspace user rather than avid is not sure. However, I will be giving it a try.

I wish I was special!

Spotify goes social

For those that are familiar with this blog will know that I usually put up my "top 5 Spotify tunes of the week ". However, I haven't done so for the last couple weeks.

Spotify has now released a new social feature which allows you to share tracks and playlists at a touch of a button. So, this will allow you to share your tunes much more freely now.

To get a better understanding of how this feature works check out the video.

Is Myspace dead?

Well, according to Jason Hirschhon (president of Myspace) it's far from it. Myspace is set for a face lift/relaunch and a huge one at that, once the Kings of social networking Myspace has since been dethroned by the likes of Facebook and Twitter.

To read the full article click here.

Personally, I don't think the relaunch or "re-branding" of Myspace will work it has had its day. At Myspace's peak it was huge and in a weird way it is responsible for a lot of current musicians careers and even the existence of TURN OFF THE RADIO.

People used Myspace to network, promote themselves, or even to meet a prospective partner believe it or not. But fundamentally Myspace was and is still used by musicians giving them the opportunity to allow people to listen to their music or even contact them.

However, since the emergence of Facebook and more recently Twitter the tide turned user migrated and Myspace fell by the waste side and that is where it will stay for the foreseeable future no matter what.

Take note Jason Hirschhon and Rupert Murdoch" You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink"

If it's any consolation I still use Myspace and can be found here.

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