This is suprising.... News Corp to buy Intermix for $580 million...... MyDigitalLife.com
(Note: This blog post is a little pointless. Waste the next 2 minutes at your own risk.)
Story here
Read it and then come back.
For those of you who don't know, MySpaces.com is a super-successful social networking service. You've heard of Friendster, but you probably know someone on MySpaces.com.
The reason this news is suprising to me is because MySpaces has a very liberal/hip slant to it, and New Corp owns the most right-leaning news organization on the planet, Fox News.
I wonder how the MySpaces core audience is going to react to this? Will they leave and seek a new service? Will they never find out? Will they not care?
Why is all of this interesting to me?
Back before Friendster launched I had an idea for what would now be called "a social networking service" (I was the first with the idea, I swear! ;) ). Nothing real ever came of it (no programming code), just a bunch of sketches and a really (i mean really) bad HTML prototype (it was a lame duck - which I didn't notice until my friend Brian LeGros was kind enough to point out). I had a cool idea, but I just didn't know how to put it together - nor did I have the programming knowledge to pull it off. I did however have a name for it: MyDigitalLife.com. (Which today I have pointing at michaelsica.com.) Once I realized the prototype was god-awful, and my focus on the core idea started to drift I decided to give up. At least for the next few years.
Ever since the "social networking" thing hit the web (basically when Friendster was being talked about in the news) I've been p.o.'d at myself for never getting it all together. Eric Sink's article, Law #20: The Law of Hype, made me feel a little better and was part of my inspiration to continue working on my Project Management web application, Ataraxis Unity.
You know what the funny thing is?
I received an email today from someone who wants to buy the MyDigitalLife.com domain from me. I asked for a huge amount of money (because I don't really want to sell it). I didn't ask for $580 million, but maybe I should email them again and say that I just can't part with it for less than $580 million and see if they get the joke. :)
Story here
Read it and then come back.
For those of you who don't know, MySpaces.com is a super-successful social networking service. You've heard of Friendster, but you probably know someone on MySpaces.com.
The reason this news is suprising to me is because MySpaces has a very liberal/hip slant to it, and New Corp owns the most right-leaning news organization on the planet, Fox News.
I wonder how the MySpaces core audience is going to react to this? Will they leave and seek a new service? Will they never find out? Will they not care?
Why is all of this interesting to me?
Back before Friendster launched I had an idea for what would now be called "a social networking service" (I was the first with the idea, I swear! ;) ). Nothing real ever came of it (no programming code), just a bunch of sketches and a really (i mean really) bad HTML prototype (it was a lame duck - which I didn't notice until my friend Brian LeGros was kind enough to point out). I had a cool idea, but I just didn't know how to put it together - nor did I have the programming knowledge to pull it off. I did however have a name for it: MyDigitalLife.com. (Which today I have pointing at michaelsica.com.) Once I realized the prototype was god-awful, and my focus on the core idea started to drift I decided to give up. At least for the next few years.
Ever since the "social networking" thing hit the web (basically when Friendster was being talked about in the news) I've been p.o.'d at myself for never getting it all together. Eric Sink's article, Law #20: The Law of Hype, made me feel a little better and was part of my inspiration to continue working on my Project Management web application, Ataraxis Unity.
You know what the funny thing is?
I received an email today from someone who wants to buy the MyDigitalLife.com domain from me. I asked for a huge amount of money (because I don't really want to sell it). I didn't ask for $580 million, but maybe I should email them again and say that I just can't part with it for less than $580 million and see if they get the joke. :)
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