Nov 19 2010

MySpace Adds Facebook Connect – Beginning of the End?

Just a short update for tonight.

Today, MySpace held a brief press conference (and by brief I am talking  under twenty five minutes in total) announcing the implementation of Facebook Connect to provide both authentication and content sharing. What this really comes down to is where the vast majority of social networking content is amassed and consumed. Clearly, it’s not MySpace and by any length of breadth of the imagination (except maybe for large numbers of no name musicians and music acts that seem to like it).

In my opinion, MySpace is simply prolonging the inevitable. Whilst this may see a small uplift in people checking out the integration between the two sites it’s not the silver bullet to kill the Facebook giant. Investors of MySpace have been pumping in money with no returns on their investment for a while now. There are only two possible outcomes for MySpace on their current trajectory (which I would describe as “circling the drain”, specifically:

  1. Sell (to Facebook, Google or another party),
  2. Wind up the business.

It will be interesting to see how this unfolds but I dare say that MySpace would be lucky to see the end of 2011.

Boydo

My name is Boyd and I’m a Service Management Specialist with a knack for operational data gathering, transformation, analysis and reporting.

In 2012, I obtained my Masters of Science in Information Technology through the University of New South Wales @ The Australia Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA).

I was also part of an online community known as the Panasonic Insider Crew in the capacity of “Insider Guru” for Panasonic Australia where I interacted with other tech enthusiasts and find out more about Panasonic's latest gadgets.

I love technology, gadgets, and the Internet and maintain a keen interest in these areas locally, nationally, and globally. I hope by sharing my views on these topics that people will receive an honest point of view from someone with a genuine interest in these topics.

I have also written and edited articles for Neowin - you can check out my articles over @ https://www.neowin.net/news/poster/boyd_chan

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1 comment

    • Roy on November 20, 2010 at 07:38
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    I dont use Myspace, but I suppose it is inevitable that eventually whatever is most popular would choke out the others?

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