Breaking: Black Eyed Peas Hijack MySpace
OK, this isn't exactly breaking news, but it is about someone trying to fix something broken. As part of its makeover, MySpace debuted "Hijacks" today with the Black Eyed Peas "taking control" of the site for three days. (Click on image on left to enlarge.) Next, Jack Black will hijack the site on December 15th. Put in breathless PR terms: "Hijacks is one of many content-focused initiatives supporting Myspace’s mission to provide the best social entertainment experience possible for the Gen Y audience."
The Black Eyed Peas will share how they "envision" Myspace, "transforming" it into the same augmented reality that "inspired" their latest album, The Beginning. Key areas of the site have been "flipped" into an 8-bit version in the style of retro video games. Jack Black will ‘Hijack’ Myspace using the theme of his upcoming film Gulliver’s Travels focusing on all things "giant". Perhaps he'll include "giant" social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
Hmmm…this might be a symptom of jumping the shark.
just sayin’
Don’t know if this is related, but I saw a rant from a manager for four extremely long-tail MySpace pages that the MySpace player for all of his artists was non-functional today. He says he’s about had it with MySpace after the recent design changes that were shoved down on the pages he maintains, which trashed the page-design he had created.
Every page on Myspace is now huge, heavy and slow. This not only makes it worse, it’s also a perfect example of their pandering to big-money music. There’s no discovery going on here. Just spam-bots and pay to play.
To this listener, the recent changes in design have made myspace slow and unreliable, especially for users of Firefox.
Yet, I refuse to give up my privacy by signing up to Facebook instead.