Neat article by Rusty Speidel of Jaggers
Communications re: MySpace challenging Facebook, specifically in the music
space.
Love his comment about the new MySpace, "This demo
looks like my daughter acts."
This ties in well with our social media course because it
seems to encourage links, connections and sharing. It will be interesting
to see when and how it enables push marketing (email?) beyond SEM.
Also...
"First thing you notice is the prominent role music
plays in the site. The musician in me loves this. It’s like you can create a
soundtrack of events that can be tied to the images and posts you create. Very
cool. The timeline is horizontal and everything in is a visual mash that ties
posts, video, audio, connections and photos together around those events. It’s
loose, slick, and sexy, and seems to borrow a lot
from Path and Pinterest. "....
Original piece linked here.
