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   Charles Griswold, May 15th, 2007 @ 4:47pm

   
   

   If MySpace had instead launched a Digg-style site that catered to the sorts of things that interest the typical MySpace user (music, entertainment, MySpace pages, etc.) it probably would have been more successful.

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   Spud, May 15th, 2007 @ 5:48pm

   
   

   This article hits the nail on the head. I really don’t think MySpace users are interested in reading the news while they are at MySpace. They are there for other reasons such as the music and there friends. I’m sure MySpace users actually want to escape the “real world” news so they won’t go looking for it while at MySpace. I can see MySpace news dieing eventually.

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   Ries & Trout

   

   nonuser, May 15th, 2007 @ 5:49pm

   
   

   This phenomenom was explained well by Ries & Trout in their book "Positioning", published decades ago. Consumers learn to associate a product category with one or two market leaders, which is great for those businesses, but there's a catch... the same mental inertia that protects them from being easily dislodged by competitors also prevents them from moving into a much different space and dominating that as well.

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   probably doesnt help..

   

   Chris, May 15th, 2007 @ 6:15pm

   
   

   ...that the average age of myspace users is 14. Not like they really give a damn about whats going on in the real world.

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   hah!

   

   pete, May 15th, 2007 @ 6:42pm

   
   

   What are you talking about? 14-year olds are just as active in today's news as adults. In fact, little Suzy down the road just sold some of her stocks because she fears recession; at least in her mind, with the money she'll make now, she can still afford the HCl Swimming Barbie AND Tae Kwon Do Barbie with karate slapping action.
   
   

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   "even if a company has a lot of users, there's no

   

   Mich4elm4n, May 16th, 2007 @ 1:03am

   
   

   "even if a company has a lot of users, there's no surefire way of building a certain kind of community or getting them to use a site in a specific way." so does myspace.
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   monica, May 22nd, 2007 @ 8:20am

   
   

   tomycptrkrashtonush

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