I agree that Myspace sucked from a visual and experience perspective. It's easy to see why Facebook killed it. When Facebook came along, it was a welcome relief

I agree that Myspace sucked from a visual and experience perspective. It's easy to see why Facebook killed it. When Facebook came along, it was a welcome relief from the garish graphics and "Thanks for the ad!!!1" wall posts. The real question here is not "What was it about Myspace, the site, that sucked?" though. The question is "What was it about Myspace, the organisation, that prevented it from fixing its sucky site?" It's probably safe to speculate that Myspace, the organisation, knew that their site sucked and that Facebook's site was better. What held them back from fixing it? Was it clueless management, lack of talented developers or the decision to use a particular technology that doomed them? I don't think that the recent debate has cleared that one up yet.