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| atomic_afro |
 Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:08 am |
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Hmmmm? Anybody? Peter? Tom? Bueller?
Here's the link to mine to kick things off.
Feel free to add your own to the list!
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| landfill |
| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:36 am |
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| For the longest time, I said I'd never succumb to the evils of myspace. But I just did. |
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| Jaymis |
| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 3:00 am |
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| I can't handle myspace. It looks like a timewarp back to circa 1996 geocities, except this time instead of annoying midi tunes on every page which you can turn off by muting the midi on your soundcard, myspace has mp3s or videos playing, so every. damn. page. invades my space and I have to go searching around to find which bloody tab is stuffing up my music. |
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| michaeluna |
| Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 9:18 pm |
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Nice Afro, atomic. I also rock the fro.
I was disappointed that you didn't have any music up though.
anyway, I am at myspace.com/michaeluna
In my opinion, myspace is an easy way to let all my friends know when I'm playing a show & announce when I have new music/projects. Also I'm at work all day on a computer and it's nice to find pictures of modular synths that people leave for me. |
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| groovesmag |
| Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 8:25 am |
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| emulsion |
| Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 11:20 am |
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I'm at myspace.com/emulsionmusic
I wasn't very excited about getting involved on myspace, honestly, but I gave in recently as I was finding more and more people that use it as their primary form of communication. It's too bad it has such a horrible clunky ad-filled interface, and is at least twice as slow as everything else on the internet!
It's funny, a year or so ago I thought about getting on myspace music but it seemed like it was filled with random terrible unsigned local rock bands and fake major label pages maintained by some intern. It struck me a lot like mp3.com and I didn't want to be associated with that. Going back now I find Isan, Solvent, Caural, Daedelus, and dozens more solid indie artists have picked up on it. |
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| shamann |
| Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 11:41 am |
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| thesimplicity |
| Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 6:49 pm |
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heh, MySpace just deleted my music profile last week. They cited 'copyright issues'... I guess because I had cover songs in my flash player thing. The cool part is that rather then sending me an email asking if I had the right to distribute the covers (which I do) they just contacted me with "YOUR PROFILE HAS BEEN DELETED. YOU ARE GUILTY OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. ANY ATTEMPT TO MAKE A NEW PROFILE WILL RESULT IN LEGAL ACTION." Or something to that effect, you get the point. Now all my fans probably that I died.
It's probably better than MP3.com's old "if you host your music on our servers, we own it" deal, though.
I agree with the above poster that it's a great way to let people know about upcoming shows... I used to use a newsletter format but no one ever bothers to read those things. I run into tons of people at gigs that I expected to have low turnout who say "Yeah, saw the show announcement this afternoon on MySpace." It's a shame that everything else about it seems to suck so much... I can't even count the number of times embedded videos in profiles have made my browser implode. |
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| madhatter |
| Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 4:55 pm |
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| PeterKirn |
| Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 5:24 pm |
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That email is pretty crazy. It seems like they could remove the offending material rather than kick you off, especially the first time around.
It's frustrating; I really like the *idea* of MySpace and it seems to be immensely popular. But the site is . . . so . . . ugly. I'm like a typical Mac user; I can't use something if it offends my aesthetic judgment.
So, here's the question: what do you folks think of the upstart "alternatives to MySpace"? Any of them any good?
Oh, and by the way, I'm loving the CDM last.fm radio, speaking of social networking sites. |
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| tristan |
| Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 5:44 pm |
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I agree, MySpace is quite irritating, but I still have a profile on it to keep in touch with friends ([here]). Or rather, a place for friends to find me, then I can tell them to get a Facebook profile.
I also have a MySpace profile to post my music ([there]) as it's a nice way to be able to send someone there if they're wondering what sorta stuff I'm doing.
For the whole networking thing? Facebook is really superior in my opinion. It has a fixed interface, keeping people from changing their profile's design. It also is much better for actual networking as you can view things such as mutual friends, how people know each other (if they choose to specify that), trends at your school in terms of music, television, books, and also it allows for unlimited photos (which--and this is cool--can be tagged to say who's in each photo, which will then be linked to those people's profiles). A much more pleasing and rewarding experience in my opinion, of course it doesn't have the option of having music profiles, etc. But that can be a plus too. Also, it's not just a school site anymore...people specify whether they want to join their high school's, college's, or work's network. Oh, and my facebook profile is [here].
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| atomic_afro |
| Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 2:06 pm |
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I agree that there are problems with MySpace, but I REALLY don't like Facebook's elitist nature. You have to be a part of something in order to join, and that whole attitude bugs the hell out of me.
Yes, MySpace has some real problems, like allowing FAR too much customization to the point where design illiterates can put so much crap on their page that it crashes Firefox every damn time the browser lands on it.
But besides that, MySpace is great as it allows folks in other countries, and individuals outside of an associated "group" to participate in the network freely, unlike Facebook.
But Peter, if MySpace is too "tacky" for you (really Peter, you're sometimes too New York for your own damn good), try TagWorld. I've heard good things about it, plus it's a universal system like MySpace, and it offers less html scripting options so no unsightly user html coding. Gee less options, and a prettier user interface. Hmmm what does that remind me of? 
Really Peter, avoiding a whole social network because you think it looks ugly is pretty shallow. But what do I know, I'm a peon PC user. By the way, how's the view in that ivory tower of yours?
Alright, I might of stepped over the line on that one, but you get my point.
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| tristan |
| Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 5:09 pm |
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I don't know that I'd call Facebook elitist. It's just more geared towards high school, college, and work networks. This can be both a good and bad thing, because, while it does keep some people from being able to join (those that...didn't graduate from a high school/college and are unemployed), it keeps it more centered around how people are linked together.
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| Jaymis |
| Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 6:34 pm |
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I don't know if "ugly" is just a visual judgement, even if the photo streams and audio players and friends lists filled with more photos were lovingly rendered in brushed metal it would be quite ugly. Allowing people to customize their pages and add players does indeed give the site an exterior encrusted with ugly, but I think it goes much deeper.
One of the problems with myspace is this: Just because you like the same things as someone else, it doesn't mean you're going to like them. So I think the concept behind sites which network through a manually created list of things you like is bunk. Something like Last.fm takes a single niche of interest, automatically collects stats and databases the hell out of it, which can be rather useful (as the CDM last.fm stream shows).
One more ill-conceived myspace argument: Popular bands or artists having profiles. What the hell? Do people actually think Dave Grohl maintains the Foo Fighters (that was the first band name I checked) page? What does the Foo Fighters having "59000 friends" achieve exactly?
Ok, so I really just hate the lack of aesthetics and how every damn page has different music. |
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| thesimplicity |
| Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 9:04 pm |
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Between myspace and facebook, I much prefer facebook.
On an aesthetic level, facebook is beautiful. It seems like it was actually designed, not kludged together like myspace. Typograhy, layout, and chromatics are so solid. And the lack of customization is a certainly a good thing. I can't even imagine how well organized the backend to that site must be. If you think that aesthetics shouldn't play a part in judging a service like this... c'mon, don't fool yourself. Human beings have a natural gravitation towards things with a high visual impact... it's more semiotics than control, that's just the way the brain works.
There's also the lack of anonymous bullshit that plagues almost every public internet forum. If you see a profile on the site, you know it's a real person and that's their real name. The site is more geared towards networking than "OMG LOOK AT ME" profile design. I've made a lot more wonderful connections just checking out what colleges people went to or what interests I share with others on facebook than trying to wade through the crap on myspace and livejournal.
As for the elitist nature of facebook... well, I'm not going to judge anyone's life choices, but all you need to join the site is a high school education. I mean, you don't even have to had graduated, just attended. |
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