My Questions for a MySpace Executive.
We’re about one hour from the chatroom being open on BTR for today’s discussion of what’s going on with MySpace, FriendBurst, etc.
SeanPercival, MySpace’s VP for Online Marketing, should be joining us. He asked me to give him three questions ahead of time. Here is what I came up with:
1. Can a social network online be everything to everyone as they were in the past? What I mean by that is do you feel that social networks need to specialize to thrive these days? Facebook and Twitter have their niches. What kind of niche does MySpace see for itself?
2. One thing that has kept a lot of the current long-time MySpace users around when so many others have migrated to Facebook has been the blogging platform. It has been far superior to other social networks’ platforms. The changes with 3.0 have been almost universally decried by the MySpace blogging community. Does blogging have a place in MySpace’s marketing strategy?
3. The speed of MySpace has seemingly slowed down a great deal in the last couple weeks. Can you talk about that? Is this the natural growing pains of dealing with a “Beta”?
And as I’ve noted before, Kevin Heath, our fearless leader here on FriendBurst, will b joining us as well…. I had three questions for Kevin too.
1. What’s your history with social networks? Why and when did you decide to start FriendBurst?
2. It seems to me that many of the features of FriendBurst work great while the community is relatively small. Not to put the cart before the horse, but let’s say it grows to tens of thousands of members or more. A lot of the “being updated on what everyone is doing” will become burdensome at that point. You’ve noted you want our feedback; you want us to help you decide what goes and stays, but do you have any specific plans for the site if it gets bigger?
3. Do you think a social networking site should try to please everyone or does it necessarily need to focus on particular roles and functions? For example, a lot us don’t like Facebook because of its limited blogging capabilities. Twitter is even more limited in what its trying to do. MySpace, well, MySpace doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be. Your thoughts?
See you in an hour!
LINK!
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/joko/2010/11/28/the-myspace-3-point-oh-no-exodus-of-2010
Links to the show please!!!
Good questions!! Lets hope we get good answers. And that they deliver what they say!
omg..Im so glad I bowed outta this.. Ida had a coronary! Ill be in the chat tho .. cheerin y’all on.
oh..n Joko, ask if there is any truth to the rumor that Myspace actually threw a brick in the blogging format to get rid of its drama bloggers.. k?
I think someone should ask Sean flat out if they wanted us gone. Was that discussion actually had at some point. And was it because of the drama, and personal info posting, the ridiculous reporting of profiles, or just a general corporate lack of interest in free blogging?
Link plox? I’m so going.
Okay myth number one.. Sea P is not about fixing stuff o we like it… “Online marketing” means its his job to tell us why we should eat the hit he served… I moved to frienburst, I’m fucking staying… Kevin is the shit, Sean is full of shit…
Joko’s three questions for Sean Percival, edited:
1. Does Myspace give a fuck about bloggers?
2. Bloggers STILL won’t leave Myspace, even though you’ve fucked them in the ass at every turn. Are we pathetic losers, or what?
3. Did you let the air out of my tires?
I missed the show, family function but I will listening to the archive sometime this week. Interesting questions, cant wait to hear what the answers were.