What if you combined Windows 8 and MySpace into a Facebook design concept? Well, you’d have this.
digg:
Myspace Tom gives a Twitter follower $580M worth of haterade
There is no other photo of Tom on the internet, right?
Tom isn’t really that guy’s friend.
If Kickstarter looked like this, would you use it? A pretty cool coulda-been; on the third anniversary of the increasingly-popular site’s launch, the site released some of its earliest design mockups — with the initial spark for the idea coming way back in 2001. The idea is so old that MySpace widgets were pitched at one point. Radical. Check out some of the others; it clearly took a while to kickstart Kickstarter.
To emphasize our last post, there’s Tom. That photo of Tom. In Google+. You know the one.
From: Mike Jones
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 11:26 AM
To: Myspace All
Subject: IMPORTANT COMPANY NEWS
Importance: HighMyspacers,
Today, we are announcing that Myspace will be acquired by Specific Media, one of the world’s leading online media and advertising platforms. Over the next…
That’s it, guys. MySpace sold for a mere $35 million — less than a tenth of the $580 million price News Corp. bought it for roughly six years ago. Much of the staff is going away, as is the CEO. Click the link to read his letter. Sarah Lacy’s piece on the “death” of Digg seems relevant here.
Watch: PCB gets a visual shout out on GMA’s Yahoo/Tumblr...
Wrote a thing.
Hat tip to this headline writer.
Congrats Tumblr!
Don’t screw this up Yahoo.
In 2007, I was...
I started tumblr when I was at one of the lowest points of...
» A mixed record for startups: Some tech companies that have passed on the major buyout offers, like Facebook (which passed on a $1 billion buyout offer from Yahoo! way back in 2006), have only gotten much larger on their own. Other tech giants that missed the buyout opportunity – Yahoo! turned down an epic deal from Microsoft in 2008 and nosedived ever since. Other companies who have taken the buyout have had success stories (YouTube, which is a cornerstone of Google’s offerings) and precipitous declines (MySpace, which is trying to make a comeback; and Bebo, which sold to AOL and then lost nearly all of its value when it was sold again a couple years later). Which is to say, it’s too soon to know whether Groupon screwed up here.
This may lose us cool points, but we hate the logo and love the design of the new MySpace site. It’s clear that they actually gave designers a lot more freedom, and now it looks like somewhere we wouldn’t be embarrassed to find ourselves. We also hear that they’re limiting the amount of freedom you can have with individual page design, to which we say about freaking time! Leave the design to the designers, or at least set a high bar like Tumblr does. source
Earlier this week: Gap The Gap, an ultra-iconic, ultra-basic brand of basic clothing, decided to redo its logo to look like every other logo on the Internet. People hate it. The company tries to crowdsource a new logo. People complain about that too.
Today: MySpace Apparently looking to up the ante, MySpace takes a cue from AOL and redesigns their logo in such a way that it can use secondary art. Too bad they took out the word “space” and replaced it with a madlib. sourceCopyright 2009-2013 Ernie Smith • Ask us stuff! • E-mail us • Follow us on Twitter • Follow us on Facebook
