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Myspace Should Buy Posterous
- zacharycohn 15y agoWhy would Posterous sell to MySpace? They're hemorrhaging money, employees, and users, while Posterous is growing quite well. Selling to MySpace seems like it'd be a terrible idea..
- dylanhassinger 15y agoYeah Posterous might be growing, but they're still the also-ran of the social networks. Taking on the mantle of the former world leader would put them on a new level Like when Dick Grayson became Batman for awhile. sorta
- simonbrown 15y agoPosterous is more of a blog host than a social network. They don't need to be the most popular to be successful.
- skadamat 15y agoToo bad someone bought myspace anyway
- joelrunyon 15y agoThere's no real analysis here. This is the equivalent of me saying "RIM should buy Apple. They have this cool new iPhone. I really like it. They should buy it." Maybe, but that's not really how it works. MySpace is pivoting, from a social network to a music platform for Indie artists. That's where MySpace is going. It isn't (and hasn't) tried to compete with Facebook for years (and I thought the MySpace/Facebook comparisons diesd a while back). Adding Posterous and/or any microblogging to Myspace's current platform adds no strategic advantage to MySpaces' current service as it stands. That said, Posterous is pretty awesome. I just don't see how it would be a useful addition to Myspace in anyway.
- dylanhassinger 15y agogood answer. the music pivot is cool, but i think that ship has sailed
- adrianscott 15y agouh, but Posterous has a higher valuation than MySpace... wish they would work on site performance though...