Over the last year, there’s been a tremendous amount of focus on the “Widget economy”. Newsweek has even dubbed 2007 as the “Year of the Widget.” While the concept of a “widget” might seem trivial to many outside of Silicon

The empire is Network television with its closed system and constant crushing of innovation.

The question is will Peter Chernin be Yoda or Darth Vader? Closing MySpace would be a disaster.

Everyone is at MySpace because it’s a cool place to be. If it’s not cool …

This is not a problem. Myspace is the platform of the new web, and if anything, its cause for celebration. Peter should stop acting like myspace owns its users.

I’m sure MySpace doesn’t care what’s going on as long as the page views are increasing, and they make more money off of search. But what will come of SocNets when people realize that the time and effort they spend developing their own pages goes for the most part totally unnoticed by their so-called “friends” ?

Om Malik reports in GigaOm that the COO of News Corp., owners of MySpace, issued a veiled warning:

“If you look at virtually any Web 2.0 application, whether its YouTube, whether it’s Flickr, whether it’s Photobucket or any of the next-generati…

…”Attention Page” I like that. The attention page is the power position. In the future, that page or whatever you want to call it will also be our personal control panel for managing things like our presence and determining who, what, when, where, why, and how we communicate and otherwise create and consume content.

If I were MySpace, anything that allowed my users to have more control over their online experience I would embrace.

actually i was cautious about reading too much into those comments. regardless, what i am trying to say is that because of the widgets myspace has become so huge, and gone from being just another social network. the attention is attention of users on a daily consistent basis.

http://www.ibcnews.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=64831

And to the writer above who says that MySpace wouldn’t have got attention without the develoeprs making widgets for it, that’s absurd. MySpace became huge which is why other companies started building widgets to put on people’s pages.

As for Flikr et all WHO CARES ABOUT YOUR LANDSCAPES AND AUNTY MADGE? YOUR FAMILY? DON’T COUNT ON IT! Who would want to see your holiday photo’s.

The only other visitor’s to these sites must be stalkers and wierdos…

As for Flickr jumping the the MySpace bandwaggon, are you kidding me, Flickr is a site developed by professionals with a sense of style, usability and interactivity MySpace could only get by burning itself to the ground, firing all their staff and re-hiring the Flickr lot to come and fix it.

Just because Google are stupid enough to fork out almost a billion dollars flogging ads are whatever on it and 500,000,000 melons are sad enough to use it doesn’t make it any good.

Peace

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/09/12/myspace-we-dont-need-web-20/…;