{"id":1354,"date":"2010-11-28T16:21:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T21:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/1354\/my-questions-for-a-myspace-executive\/"},"modified":"2010-11-28T16:21:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-28T21:21:41","slug":"my-questions-for-a-myspace-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/1354\/my-questions-for-a-myspace-executive\/","title":{"rendered":"My Questions for a MySpace Executive."},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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SeanPercival, MySpace’s VP for Online Marketing, should be joining us.\u00a0 He asked me to give him three questions ahead of time.\u00a0 Here is what I came up with:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

1.\u00a0 Can a social network online be everything to everyone as they were in the past?\u00a0 What I mean by that is do you feel that social networks need to specialize to thrive these days?\u00a0 Facebook and Twitter have their niches.\u00a0 What kind of niche does MySpace see for itself?<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 It has been far superior to other social networks’ platforms.\u00a0 The changes with 3.0 have been almost universally decried by the MySpace blogging community.\u00a0 Does blogging have a place in MySpace’s marketing strategy?<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 The speed of MySpace has seemingly slowed down a great deal in the last couple weeks.\u00a0 Can you talk about that?\u00a0 Is this the natural growing pains of dealing with a “Beta”?<\/p>\n

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And as I’ve noted before, Kevin Heath, our fearless leader here on FriendBurst, will b joining us as well….\u00a0\u00a0 I had three questions for Kevin too.<\/p>\n

1. What’s your history with social networks? Why and when did you decide to start FriendBurst?<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

See you in an hour!<\/h2>\n

LINK!<\/a><\/h2>\n

http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/joko\/2010\/11\/28\/the-myspace-3-point-oh-no-exodus-of-2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 He asked me to give him three questions ahead of time.\u00a0 Here is what I came up with: 1.\u00a0 Can a social network […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}