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Old 01-13-2006, 07:27 PM   #1 (permalink)
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So how come none of us came up with this one?
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Old 01-14-2006, 12:23 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Just the way the world works really.

I'm building a site that is along the lines of MySpace, Rogue Connect - which is similar in the fact that it is also a social networking site, but Rogue concentrates more on fashion and a lot less on music.

My site is really in its infancy, but has been growing extremely well over the past month.
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Old 01-14-2006, 01:41 AM   #3 (permalink)
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it seems like tom (the creator) was at the right spot at the right time. i mean, the site sucks, there are tons of errors, but everyone loves it, and it got bought by news corp. for a nice chunk of change.
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Old 01-14-2006, 06:58 AM   #4 (permalink)
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what does myspace actually do? i live in the uk and ive never heard of it before.
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Old 01-14-2006, 04:36 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Free advertising

Free advertising thats what myspace is
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Old 01-14-2006, 07:08 PM   #6 (permalink)
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It's an accumulation of all of the terrible geocities pages from the 90's.
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Old 01-14-2006, 08:29 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I think jimmiejoe has the best summation of myspace.com.
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Old 01-15-2006, 07:44 AM   #8 (permalink)
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so if its free advertising and all the bad geocities site from the 90's how does it generate money, if it does at all.
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It generates lots of advertising revenue...there are ads everywhere. They also have a premium service that you can purchase. When he says that it is "free advertising", he means that the users of myspace can avertise on their own geocities-like page for free. It doesn't cost anything to join the basic service.
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I'm surprised they haven't come up with a MySpace "mobile" of sorts, for web enabled cell phones. I remember reading an article awhile back that asked the question "how to bring advertising revenue on cell phones" - well, that could be it.

It would be viral... If one person signs up, they would tell their friends about it and so on... And with it being mobile, people could be checking their myspace anytime/anywhere.

Perhaps creating some sort of software that allows people to easily convert their real MySpace into the mobile format (since each persons MySpace site is basically HTML coding). The only features you would really lose would most likely be sound/music, but the whole idea of MySpace is about checking messages and leaving comments - that's about it. Most of the people I know don't login to checkout music...
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Old 01-15-2006, 03:01 PM   #11 (permalink)
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CP Mr Ofevaw, as you live in america you should of if you havent heard of Doug Richard, he is very big in the software market and generated most of his cash by buying and selling software companies.

This doug richard might have already thought of this idea and could be working with Peter Jones the owner of Phones International.

If not then you could have found yourself a very good niche and it could make you alot of money.
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Old 01-15-2006, 03:02 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Thanks everyone, im starting to understnad how this myspace is working.

Does anyone think myspace could ever be re-created? and if so what improvements would you like it to have added on?
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