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Guess who’s back!?September 26, 2012 – 1:10 pm |
 Damjan Dano |
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Do you remember MySpace? Yes, the social network which we all used before Facebook was cool?
Yep, the one with the animated, noisy and colorful backgrounds and with that creepy Tom guy being added to your friends automatically….
Well guess what? MySpace is coming back!
This time, (btw this would be their second relaunch), Specific Media and Justin Timberlake are in charge. News Corp is out of the picture. Justin Timberlake and Specific Media bought the social networking site MySpace for $35 million from News Corp. and are planning to make a social network that will practically be the summary of all your social networks.
To a general surprise, the video showing the new design and functionalities, which was published on the internet this Tuesday, got impressive reactions and positive critics. It seems that they did a good job at restructuring the old platform and turning it into something that can be a combination of Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter.
Check out the video below:
The official launch date is still unknown, but rumors are saying that it will start at beginning of 2013.
What do you think, can MySpace endanger Facebook’s dominance in social media? Can they make a good comeback?
Let me know your thoughts in the comments below…
One Response to “Guess who’s back!?”
definitely took a page out of pinterest’s book but i must say, this version looks pretty cool. a significant upgrade from their last relaunch, which was a terrible idea from the start. the question is where they can find their niche.
facebooks’ popularity is going to be hard to compete with on an individual user basis. they shouldn’t even try it. their best bet is to attack facebook’s weak spots, which are their media fan pages.
books, shows, movies, music, and various artists need a highly customization, highly visual means in which to represent themselves online (that’s not their own webstie).
facebook just can’t do it. if myspace became the place for artists again (as it was in 2003, 2004) and relinquish its obsession to social gaming that was vital to the last re-launch, i think they can be very successful.
with that comes the opportunity for targeted advertising in the subsequent months. it wont be hard to create a better agency experience than facebook…
By riy on Sep 28, 2012