[Sigia-l] Your take on MySpace

[Listera]

Debi Jones:

> I think there are many valid points of comparison to Geocities.

Yes, but (management and financial issues aside :-) why did Geocities die?
I'm interested in the macro reasons here. Other than the explicit music
angle, is there anything *fundamentally* different in MySpace that wasn't in
Geocities? Was there a fatal flaw in Geocities that MySpace rectified? Can
we further speculate that there is and has always been a very large scale
dormant youth-space market to be exploited by a loosely coupled service that
got to be fulfilled first by Geocities then and MySpace now and perhaps
something else in 2008? In other words, is this simply a
matketslot/mindshare capturing phenomenon of an existing category by MySpace
or is there a potent formula inherent/exclusive to MySpace that indeed
created its own market? Like I said, if the numbers are to be believed, I
still can't get over the 56 MM figure. :-)

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Ziya

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