MySpace Adds “Slides” and Increases Photo Storage

by Ken Yarmosh | August 5, 2006 | Posted in: Strategy and Marketing


MySpace now has the option for users to add “slides” to their profiles. This feature has been serviced by companies like Slide and RockYou to this point. Coinciding with this new feature, the 12-photo limit restriction has been lifted. MySpace could easily get into the photosharing business if they felt like it.

This move is not the first time MySpace has usurped a popular community feature. They did the same with YouTube by creating MySpace Video. Interestingly enough, I’ve seen MySpace Video become quite popular within MySpace - for every YouTube video, I typically see a MySpace one too.

Considering how MySpace recently began treating widgets, feeding the MySpace beast may become a strategy of the past.

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  1. MySpace Launches MySpace Slideshows - Mashable*
    August 5, 2006

    [...] A still image of the MySpace slideshow tool [via TS] Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

  2. LayoutGirl.com MySpace News » MySpace Has New Slideshow Tool
    August 6, 2006

    [...] Found on Technosight, myspace now lets users add slides to their profiles.The idea I get from reading Mashable is that myspace wants to crush the 3rd party sources, like Slide.com. I’m sure YouTube’s success with video hosting, does not exactly make myspace happy. [...]

  3. UZY.nl » Blog Archive » MySpace schrikt ontwikkelaars af
    August 6, 2006

    [...] Na het toevoegen van MySpace video om het YouTube effect te beperken, meldt Technosight dat er weer twee aanpassingen doorgevoerd die invloeden van derde partijen in MySpace verder tegengaan. [...]

  4. TECHNOSIGHT » Attention VCs - Please Read Before Funding Another Social Ne...
    August 18, 2006

    [...] Now, perhaps you think that MySpace (or rather Fox Interactive Media) might buy out your technology. For starters, that’s a bad way to think about business. More importantly, MySpace has proven they’d rather squash competitors and adapt their ideas then play nice and/or purchase their technology. [...]

1 Comment On This Post

  1. Tom says:
    September 22, 2006 at 5:55 am

    Expect MySpace to become even more aggressive, predatory and vertically integrated, as that has been Fox’s historical business model under Murdoch no matter what the venture.

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