Maybe There Is Hope For MySpace…
April 20th, 2008
Just when I pretty much abandon the platform completely, I read about this. My biggest beef with MySpace (besides the fact that it’s buggy, not secure, and doesn’t play well with Macs) has always been the closed architecture and refusal to accept what the Web 2.0 community wants: control. But here Tom goes surprising me by actually opening some of his stuff up to developers.
First, it was the ability to edit my status with the service hellotxt (which is awesome, btw). That disappeared for a bit, only to start working again a few days later. Not enough to keep MySpace as my primary social network, mind you, but a step in the right direction. Now what MySpace needs is the ability to post blogs from external editors (and preferrably, be able to export that content later…as I’ve recently learned, copy/paste is not the most efficient nor fun way to move your blog from one place to another), and then on to the dream of every social networking netizen out there: be able to sync up items like favorite movies and relationship status from a centralized manager. Update once, and it spits the info out to facebook, MySpace, Hi5, etc. One can only dream.
So then I read this article that explains how my new favorite web browser, Flock, will be adding MySpace compatibility sometime within the near future. This is awesome, because as I type this, I’m doing so using the built in blogging tool on Flock after which I can choose to send this to various locations. In fact, I’ll be posting this to notbadbutgood, my personal blog, and for the first post in a long, long time, xanga. Crossing my fingers, there is the possibility that the MySpace compatibility the article speaks of may include blogging. I can then blog on MySpace again! Write once, post everywhere has been my dream since I started doing this blogging stuff.
Of course that means that the several days it took me to copy/paste my entire MySpace blog to blogger were kind of a waste of time. Although, I did get pretty speedy with the “command-c, command-v” keyboard combos. So there is a purpose to everything danial san. Wax on, wax off.
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