MySpace Sucks for many reasons

They have a crappy layout and the add placements are obsurd but the real reson MySpace sucks is because of spam.

I've been reading about how they have 200 million members, but I know for a fact that about 20 of those profiles have the same girls picture and now her name is Bob.

It is really, really stupid. Can MySpace do something about this, of course. But they won't until they have to.

MySpace is that girl in school that sleeps with everybody. Easily accessible, everybody likes her but she obviously has no self respect.

MySpace Sucks.

Sports Community Sites Suck!

Are you tired of sports community websites?

Hey! Thumbs up to your **Fave** Team! Yeah, Hooray!

Sports community websites, that look more like MySpace than anything and are headed in San Francisco. Yet, they claim they're owned by a disgruntled sports fan wanting more involvement in the sports community. Ummm....Bull shit? YES.

Within the last year, heading the community website phenomena and MySpace splooge all over your face phase, community websites are popping up all over the web. Spamming you daily in your email, inviting you by the second to join and talk to Casandra the sexy bartender from L.A. F**** community websites, F**** MySpace!

If you have any connection to your hobby and want true, personal, real interaction and involvement, seek out true private community sites. Stop feeding the monster that is the Corny ass hole "community" website, paying millions of dollars to advertise in your face everyday and fill you full of ridiculous gimmicks.

With that said, thank God or whoever you believe to be your "God" for http://www.deathrattlesports.com/. It's funny, it's honest, it's truly community driven and with but a few dedicated writers who are actually interested and intelligent about what they're writing about, they're still getting tons of traffic.

Don't settle for less, check out DeathRattleSports.com! KILL THE MESSENGER!!!

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Myspace Takes Action Against Copyrighted Content

Myspace recently announced their implementation of a "Take Down Stay Down" function to control the posting of copyrighted content.

I've been following the Google and Youtube.com merger, through the ups, the downs the copyrights and the big business marketing initiatives. The most controversial and interesting aspects of the Google merger is that they have been facing huge copyright issues with their online videos, posing the question of whether or not this partnership was "smart."

It's true, that most industry experts predicted the copyright problems, and some even suggested it would cost Google Big money...Which it has, though hardly skimming the surface of it's growing empire.

What does this have to do with MySpace implementing copyright precautions? It's just all part of the ever growing internet copyright problems, and a foreshadow of what is to come. k?

To read some of my follow-up from the pending issues (in order, just for you!):

Google's $165 Billion Purchase of YouTube.com-High Risk Investment?

Google and Youtube Update: Copyright Infringement Issues

Google's Empty Promises for YouTube.com

Google Youtube Merger Still Below Sea Level

Viacom Sues Google For 1 Billion!

And, last but not least, my personal letter to MySpace (somewhat unrelated to copyright issues)

Dear MySpace, Enhance Our Experience Not Your Advertising Dollar

On to the story at hand,

MySpace recently took action on their specific site against copyrighted video submitted to their site.

Basic MySpace Copyright Precautions Overview:

When content is submitted copyright owners have access to ban content due to infringement upon their content's privacy. Once the content is banned from the site, any further upload of the banner content is disabled.

Pretty sweet huh?

I'm not sure what the process of banning content is, but if the content is banned too frivolously it could become a violation of freedom of speech and online freedom. I love predicting problems that may occur when big online business make copyright, security and content control changes.

So my questions are...

How easily can copyright owners ban content?

How is a copyright owner established as...well...a copyright owner, giving them this access?

If they ban content, is it taken down right away, or monitored by MySpace admin?

We will see what is to come with this new technology, whether or not Google and Youtube implement it, and if the privacy issues do come into play

Web 2.0: Social Networking Sites Change Course

Social networking sites have become not only popular among internet users, but also popular within the internet technology industry. Where Murdoch purchases MySpace, the government uses YouTube to communicate messages and now, according to Cisco and other industry professionals, social networking will start to become more specialized.

Cisco Systems announced Monday it's purchase of Tribe.net, a nearly obscure internet community. Cisco sees the future of social networking sites to be online social networks:

• Specific to interests, company, industry or specialized group
• Users can control their own reality/world
• Companies will start to adopt the idea

Obama even has his own social networking website for his presidential campaign bringing in those who are rooting for his presidency can network, communicate, share ideas, similar to MySpace.

The difference between the future of social networking sites and MySpace is that instead of bringing users together, who have absolutely nothing in common, it is bringing users together who have very specific things in common. Making the online social networking system not only useful, marketable and niche related, but almost essential to any group, organization, business or company.

Read the full story here: Social Networking Next Fase Includes Cisco

Dear MySpace, Enhance Our Experience, Not Your Advertising Dollar.

MySpace continues to grow, moving to China, spanning across all genres of interests and making the most of the dollar amount its worth. Now MySpace musicians can sell their music on MySpace through their music store, wow, that's great!

Honestly, MySpace, I was thinking that your messy advertising and slow connection were just a phase. But, I'm beginning to think you really don't care about how I feel. I read recently that Murdoch is going to start profiling each MySpace user based on their interests, then he's going to try and sell them something! If you're a teenage girl who loves Fall Out Boy, they'll try and sell you Panic! at the Disco's new album. Don't believe me? Read that super news at This Forbes.com article

That's all well and good, I know you have to make money too, I wouldn't want your dear wife going without food and all...But there are some things that I would like before you start bombarding me with ads and up-sells while I'm simply trying to network with friends, enemies and frenemies.

1. Customizable MySpace page, similar to Blogger's widget templates. I don't want to go to some 3rd party, hacked MySpace layout website, give them my e-mail address and get 50 viruses on my computer. Also, what if I don't know HTML at all? I'm just asking for something small built in...Background color? Font? Image inputting into my page EASILY!?

2. Prettier, customizable blog area. Your blog area right now is pretty sad, sorry to say. Its more like posting announcements on my page than an actual, personalized blog.

3. Less SPAM groups. Is there any way you could be a little pickier when it comes to MySpace groups? I think you have about a million of them, half of which are something like, "for only $10 per month you could be a millionaire!" Really? Oh, yea why didn't I think of that earlier!?

4. Less spam users, bulletins EVERYWHERE basically. I get at least two MySpace friend requests from blatant spammers. Don't' get me wrong, its a free site and open for everyone, but why don't you use that creative advertising dollar mind of yours to come up with a way to filter this shit out?

5. Load up time decrease. Sometimes I log in quickly and easily. Other times I can't log in at all! "Oops! Myspace encountered a problem, try again later!" I get that message one out of every 7 times I try to log in. Seriously, this can't be all that difficult.

6. Have you heard of Web 2.0? You sure know how to make changes when it comes to adding new advertising pop-ups every time I log in, on the front page, within every page, all over the music I'm trying to listen to and search through. Can you do something with your crummy, hurts my eyes, icky to look at layout please?

7. Don't I deserve it? Why don't you start treating your users, the way they deserve to be treated. After all, without them, you advertising dollar would be worth an advertising six pence.

With Love,

Every MySpace User

P.S. We aren't stupid, I guess that's what you think? Adding more advertising means we'll just click on it more, right? Like monkeys we can't tell the difference? We don't need functionality, ease and aesthetically appealing sites, we don't even understand what that means!

Update: Google and Youtube face copyright infringement

UPDATE for article:
Google's $165 Billion Purchase of YouTube.com-High Risk Investment?


Turns out, there are already some issues with YouTube's vast accessibility and possible copyright infringements. Dick Parsons, the chairman and chief executive of Time Warner has specifically stated that they are pursuing all copyright issues that were previously acknowledged and in the works before Google purchased Youtube. Apparently they already have negotiations with Youtube, not exact figures were given, but I'm sure it involves some kind of monetary percentage when it comes to viewers. Now that Google is involved, the chairman is going to kick it up a notch, the playing field just got a little dirtier. Google attracts four times the amount of viewers that Youtube does, and trust me, Youtube had some viewers! He is quoted as saying,
"We'd like to have our content displayed on these platforms, but on a basis that it respects our rights as the owner of that content."

This isn't the first set of negotiations involving Google's new partner, nor will it be the last. The grouping of these tremendously powerful internet giants is stirring up the already effervescent concoction of money, power and advertising initiatives.

Here's just one example:

Who is mad?: Doug Morris, the chief executive of Universal Music. Called Youtube and Myspace "copyright infringers"

Who's he mad at?: Rupert Murdoch of News Corp, owns Myspace

Who else?: You tube, Google owns them

So What?: Murdoch owns Myspace, who creates 60%-70% of the traffic to Youtube. Google bought Youtube, which is now causing some possible copyright issues all on it's own. Myspace's Murdoch (News Corp) wants to extend advertising deal with Google (who owns Youtube) due to their direct influence over Youtube's traffic (now owned by Google) that Google will in turn quadruple due to their already mammoth viewer ship. Pissing Doug Morris off even more! Unless, of course, he comes to some kind of contract deal with them, as many already have.

Whew!

Yea, who's made revenue sharing contract deals? Huh?

• Warner Music, agreed to allow it's music library on Youtube


• Sony BMG


• CBS

From a quote in "Guardian Unlimited" Google faces copyright fight over YouTube:
YouTube founder Chad Hurley has also sought to play down copyright fears. "We're committed to developing tools to identify the content and monetize it so [content owners] can have a new outlet for their content."