SpaceLift: Give MySpace a Facelift August 30th, 2007
I’m happy to announce that my new Facebook application, SpaceLift, has gone live. SpaceLift allows Facebook users to browse any public profile on MySpace from within Facebook while converting the profile to the wrinkle-free Facebook layout. We’re hoping to reduce world-wide exposure to animated GIFs by 10% by the end of the year.
It’s still “Pending Approval” so it can’t be searched for in the Facebook Application Directory yet. Fortunately, since you are reading this, you can go there directly and start browsing MySpace.
Writing and launching a Facebook application has been an easy and pleasurable experience so far. We’ve gotten a decent amount of press from the likes of Mashable, Valleywag, and even a French and German blog.
Enough blathering. Go forth and make MySpace a cleaner place. Add SpaceLift.
Check out the coverage from CMSWire here:
Facebook and MySpace May Be Batting for Two Completely Different Teams
An interesting comment:
That MySpace users spend less time networking than self-promoting may mean it’s less a social networking site than a personal publishing tool. And if that’s the case, this puts it in a completely different competitive realm.
Maybe in the future we’ll be holding MySpace up to blog/community hybrid sites like Xanga or LiveJournal.
on August 31st, 2007 at 10:58 pmThanks for pointing out the CMSWire coverage. I agree that MySpace’s audience is *more* focused on self-promotion, but many users seem to use it for networking purposes as well. It’s possible that these are the kinds of users that will be switching over to Facebook in the months to come. Hopefully SpaceLift can give them the ability to display and browse their MySpace friend’s pages until they too switch over to the more powerful networking tool of Facebook.
Those users that use MySpace for self-promotion and publishing can continue to use it in that way.
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