That article you linked to was good. So far people have been extremely fickle with social networking sites, I see no reason why it will be any different with myspace.
It has some good features, I personally hate it because its a mess. Oh yeah and I am biased against it because its owned by Murdoch. Although there are clear benefits to such a large scale of social networking, I prefer smaller & more specialised communities, ansd cleaner user interfaces. Right now I am fixated with drupal and what it can do in terms of letting people create groups. I am currently in the early stages of remaking vjcentral.com so that it uses drupal & takes advantage of all the stuff thats emerged over the last few years, like tagging, videoblogging etc. I am more than amazed that the videoblogging community hasnt done something similar, and has stuck with an array of semi-connected sites, yahoo groups etc. I know particular sites such as ourmedia are using the group stuff in drupal, but there doesnt seem to be that much overlap between who & what is going on there, and members of this list. Node101 strikes me as great example of something that would benefit greatly from having this sort of online presence. New groups can be created by anyone to represent a new node, nodes can publish material that is seen by just that one node, or shared with certain other groups, or with everyone. I am formally volunterring to help with such an effort if it is wanted. I will post about this again once I got a beta of the new vjcentral running, so any interested people can take a look and see if such a system would be useful for node101 etc. Steve of Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Jay dedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dave Toole recently asked his 16yr old daughter to explain why she finds MySpace so interesting. > > I asked him to vlog it and share it with us. > > He posted it tonight on ourmedia and our SpinFlow vlog > > http://outhink.blogs.com/spinflow/2006/02/why_is_myspace_.html > > Talk about market research. > this is exactly what i needed to understand. > I needed to SEE what a typical user likes about MySpace. > Dave asked all the right questions. > > i guess MySpace provides what i hear a lot of bloggers want. > who's watching me? > how many friends do i have? > we all want an audience. > I know thats why i got involved in videoblogging. > I just wanted to meet other people. > > but for whatever reason, MySpace still seems like a dead end. > doesnt seem like it will last. > I like to think that media we create will last...so it means something > in the future. > I wonder if MySpace has that kind of longevity. > http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=1650209&page=1 > > jay > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
