ISO50

I posted this reply to a DJ/Producing acquaintance of mine who was quick to praise the new redesign in lieu of Facebook:

This is pretty interesting. However in my opinion I feel like the damage has already been done to Myspace’s image. I doubt that the Facebook population will migrate backwards towards a tarnished brand to A, join another social netowrk (see the lack of interaction moving forward to Google+) to B, discover new music. While the new Myspace might be catered towards musicians, today’s fans (ie the majority) have already settled on YouTube, iTunes, and blogs as their music portals (I would argue soundcloud and mixcloud, and even Spotify/Rdio, are not mainstream yet).

I don’t mean to be a debbie downer or comment-troll, I do agree that Facebook is not optimal for musicians – and artists in general – to share there work. It’s more or less a launchpad to share outside links to the previously mentioned, more or less, struggling music social networks where it’s then up to the artist to sift through droves of comments and likes (if you’re lucky enough to already have a fanbase) to determine successful trends. I just think this is an important dialogue to keep open and I’m very curious to see what the future holds.

It will be tough to overcome their stigma…Not impossible though.

@TIM Is is possible to overcome their stigma. I had a conversation about such a topic recently with the subject of Yahoo. I personally feel is it easier if they just threw-away the brand MySpace, release it under a new name, and hope to heaven the press doesn’t get ahold its under the same group.

I feel people, in the recent-age are willing to, attempt to try a new service, platform, than resort to a past-time failure, aka: MySpace. But, it is anybody’s call I suppose, I mean, companies ditching Google Maps, for TomTom and Yelp, – so as the table turns.

Who wants to give up their posts and profiles to start over? You cannot overthrow Facebook outright. Whatever replaces it will need to offer innovations that progress us through a natural evolution out of a “Social Network” and into the realm of social-integrated “Augmented Reality.” Don’t call it a “comeback,” Myspace won’t get very far without offering avenues of transition out of Facebook. Social Network sites are old news, we know better than to leave our “old” virtual lives behind and jump ship.

That is not to say that Myspace is a bust. It could even earn its right to be considered among the top social networks if they create for themselves a niche like with musicians & visual artists by offering them unique innovations to showcase their work and track their fan-base.

One day, however, there will come along some innovation, some advancement in technology, or some combination of the two and it will bridge the gaps between these social networks, a conglomeration with one interface, one experience.

you hate everyone on facebook, we’ve all quit because of it. now this is just a perfect chance to get away. and hopefully the people who feel the same will leave and leave all the tards and like this kid to save his life shit will die on facebook

I agree with your last sentence. I could see maybe a younger generation getting into this but there is no way I could make the switch.

I’ve tried the new.Myspace and its brilliant.!!

Like spotify, but for free. Sideways scrolling , targeted at tablets I guess, and no its not a facebook killer, its a spotify/lastfm killer.

If you like free music and are a big music fan , this is one to add. It complements my soundcloud collection with a few more commercial artist’s

You can make your own plalists , called mixes , ad-free…

not sure what their business model is , but the rate facebook is going, I would switch to anything else that’s not google… maybe if I can convince my friends to join it , I can toss facebook away..