Facebook and MySpace 'in talks?' Of course
Sound the alarms! The U.K.'s Telegraph news outlet has a story that seems to prove the unthinkable: that onetime social-networking rivals Facebook and MySpace could actually be working on some kind of partnership.
Two years ago this would've been a huge deal. Now? I'm really not surprised.
"The move could potentially see MySpace music and video footage being shared on Facebook via its Connect platform, which allows people to log into third-party sites using their Facebook ID," the article by Emma Barnett explains.
It then quotes Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg as saying that "we would like to have (MySpace's) content, as we already do with many other sites, shared across our network because it is good for our users" and that "we are open to working with MySpace and are in talks with them at the moment."
MySpaces CEO Owen Van Natta, who used to have a similar role at Facebook to the one that Sandberg does now, is likewise quoted as saying "we are in talks with Facebook, and other sites, about how we could partner with them."
See, here's the deal. Sandberg and Van Natta are quoted in pretty ambiguous terms. But any third-party company on the Web is at liberty to implement Facebook's log-in standard with the Facebook Connect API: over 15,000 sites had, at last count. The catch with MySpace is that both sites are so large, they'd naturally be in some kind of talks about it simply to handle infrastructure issues (and likely more). The Huffington Post, for example, struck a deal with Facebook to power its "Social News" feature with Facebook Connect rather than just to chuck in some Facebook Connect code.
Partnering with Facebook is actually excellent positioning for MySpace, because the News Corp.-owned social site has been attempting to differentiate itself from pure social networking: a game that Facebook has clearly won. By hinting that it could strike a deal with Facebook, MySpace is putting out a major "we're different" message as it tries to establish itself as a pop culture hub. Facebook's the one providing the platform for the content; MySpace is the one providing the content itself.
For Facebook, meanwhile, you could take this as a "look, we've won" move. After all, it's a validation of the power of the social network's content platform that a company like MySpace--which used to dwarf Facebook in size--would want to use it for distribution.
Caroline McCarthy, a CNET News staff writer, is a downtown Manhattanite happily addicted to social-media tools and restaurant blogs. Her pre-CNET resume includes interning at an IT security firm and brewing cappuccinos. E-mail Caroline. 
I mean, the current generation of illiterate hood-rich ghetto fab "thug lyfe" wannabes just isn't pervasive enough.
MySpace is for young hookers-in-the-making, drug addicts, and every other kid that has no family.
Please keep FB away from MS!
PLEASE!
The real future is decentralized. Personal, professional and small community websites will see a resurgence as CMSs and social tools become more accessible. The future will see hundreds of thousands of little Facebooks and MySpaces out there, as these behemoths become the Netscapes and AOL of the 21st Century.
The game-changing solutions are being written in some dormitory at Cal Tech or MIT, or in some dropout's garage. It's not surprising for these young super companies to rest on their laurels. Facebook and MySpace will soon (a few years) join Netscape and Prodigy as stepping stones to greater things.
You have to wait for all the flash ads to play once before you log into MS, otherwise, it won't let you log in no matter how carefully you type in your user ID and password.
The music on MS is great, but the fact that these females put pictures of their butt in a thong as their ID picture/avatar on MS is gross; if I want to see someone showing their butt, I'll watch C-SPAN, where there is always some politician showing their butt. I don't care how thin you are, it look gross with your butt sticking into a camera with butt floss and nothing else. If that's the face you show to the world, you have some serious problems. They have medication for things like that, you know. I have to wonder how FB's porn filter will deal with THAT? I hope they'll eliminate it.
Do you hell, half the stuff on myspace frontpage is blocked on my end and i can login perfectly fine.
I block everything Flash on Myspace due to their abuse, i do not want any Flash ads, ever.
I have always favoured Facebook its easy to use and nearly everyone is on it.
The way we keep in touch is continuously evolving. It hard to envisage how this will yet again change in the future. You can check out other peoples ideas for this though on Intel's Tomorrow's Mural. Defiantly worth a look you can even add your own ideas.
MySpace is going to go down in history as a website for GIRLS LOOKING FOR PEDOPHILES can sign up and exploit themselves. Where are their parents, anyway?
"Where are their parents, anyway?"
On facebook.
Personally I prefer the MS interface as FB requires to much digging around to do even the most basic things. For those complaining about sparkly profiles, MS allows you to switch how you view profiles from Full View to Lite.
It took me more than a few minutes to figure out where the hell they moved Friends to on the new homepages.
And if you click the parent menu item, instead of you logically assuming that it would take you to YOUR friends, it takes you to the Invite Friends page...
Not only that, the whole "Live Feeds" thing is awful.
Yeah, Live Feed for statuses, but if you want comments to auto-refresh, yeah, good luck with that one.
You're still forced to refresh the page, whether it is hard refresh or clicking the News Feed then Live Feed again.
Not only that, the notifications area on the right doesn't update.
This badly needs to be fixed.
MySpace is even more worthless than Facebook. At least facebook allowed me one, single opportunity in the couple years Ive been there to reconnect with an old friend. I've never used Myspace and don't know anyone who does.
Waste of space and bandwidth.
- by Gianni_Simplicio October 27, 2009 11:01 PM PDT
- They should friend each other.
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(21 Comments)Does myspace have a facebook page?