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I was never on staff, but I spent a year working full-time with MySpace and so I have sadness and hope for the reduction. I don't really know anyone who still
by dotBen 16y ago
I was never on staff, but I spent a year working full-time with MySpace and so I have sadness and hope for the reduction.
I don't really know anyone who still works there but it is obviously sad when people you worked with in the past are laid off. However, I do think the reduction in size will help them focus - I'm guessing they will strip back their huge international efforts (which IMHO are waste because MySpace is really a US-orientated service) and most of the non-core products that just add bloat.
The new incarnation of the site isn't all that bad actually, but it needs to exist as a leaner machine of ~400 people in order to look like an attractive acquisition and find a home away from News Corp -- the only way the site will ultimately flourish again.
- wheels 16y ago> I'm guessing they will strip back their huge international efforts (which IMHO are waste because MySpace is really a US-orientated service) Really? They're in the top 100 sites in 17 different countries; I mostly encountered them while living outside the US, specifically for music stuff.
- dotBen 16y agoThat is from impression as a non-american, as someone who used the service while I worked there and from looking at usage data. Even during the peak of MySpace it was never the #1 social network in most other countries outside of US. The music stuff remains niche outside the USm and I think the level of "americana" (which FB never had) hurt MySpace in markets with an anti-american slant (Europe, etc). In key markets, like Asia, social networking as a vertical looks very different which is why it didn't get the traction like local services did.