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R.I.P. MySpace

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Dormouse:
Like the guy who won and lost $100K in a poker game, it must be incredibly depressing to live with the certain knowledge you HAD it -and totally blew it.
-40hz (January 12, 2011, 08:23 AM)
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I don't know. They had it - and they sold it (for a pretty good price, given that they were already losing out to Facebook).

It's Murdoch taking the loss (& the responsibility for its decline).  ;D ;D ;D

40hz:
Like the guy who won and lost $100K in a poker game, it must be incredibly depressing to live with the certain knowledge you HAD it -and totally blew it.
-40hz (January 12, 2011, 08:23 AM)
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I don't know. They had it - and they sold it (for a pretty good price, given that they were already losing out to Facebook).

It's Murdoch taking the loss (& the responsibility for its decline).  ;D ;D ;D


-Dormouse (January 12, 2011, 11:04 AM)
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Oh no doubt about it. The money they got for it was definitely good. Maybe even too good.

But what I meant (and obviously expressed badly) was more that they were sui generis; and how frustrating it must be to own an entire concept - and later realize you just gave it away.

That part happened long before Murdoch crawled out from under his rock and approached them.

If Murdoch wasn't out to pwn MTV at the time of the offer - and Elliot Spitzer wasn't breathing so heavily down Intermix Media's neck - I wonder if the deal would have been consummated just then.

Ah well...we can speculate endlessly about what that deal was really all about.

Either way, like the Admiral Greer character said in Patriot Games; It's over.  :-\

sunlitlaz:
In the beginning, I actually liked MySpace.  I remember hearing about it from friends and fellow musicians as a place to hang a shingle, post some stuff and maybe get some good feedback and exposure.  Not to mention being able to make contact with already famous artists and heroes alike (which I have been able to do, and was wonderful).  However, MySpace got way too big, bloated, insecure and downright dangerous to a lot of folk that didn't know enough to defend against the basics.  By the time it had been taken over by the kiddies as mentioned above, I had lost all interest in what it had become versus what it started out as.

What was the guys name that started it?  The one that was everyone's first friend by default?  Tom I think it was.  If I remember correctly, he wrote the original site and later sold it to ol' Rupert for (from the article) $580 million!  He made out like a bandit as far as I am concerned!  :Thmbsup:

It might be interesting to see what it morphs into next ...

40hz:
Can't wait to see where some of the idiots who were still hanging in there end up roosting once they shut it down completely...
-40hz (January 12, 2011, 09:29 AM)
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Regular users will probably move to Facebook, and bands will probably move to Last.fm and those with CC licensed works to Jamendo, unless something even better comes along.
-app103 (January 12, 2011, 09:47 AM)
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That's fine.

But I was really more wondering where the idiots would end up.

I want to make it a point never to go there. ;D

app103:
Can't wait to see where some of the idiots who were still hanging in there end up roosting once they shut it down completely...
-40hz (January 12, 2011, 09:29 AM)
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Regular users will probably move to Facebook, and bands will probably move to Last.fm and those with CC licensed works to Jamendo, unless something even better comes along.
-app103 (January 12, 2011, 09:47 AM)
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That's fine.

But I was really more wondering where the idiots would end up.

I want to make it a point never to go there. ;D

-40hz (January 13, 2011, 03:18 PM)
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ok...allow me to clarify:

Regular users idiots will go to facebook.....etc.

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