MySpace is back, and they’ve been taking notes. Particularly from visual sites like Pinterest and more noticeably the new Windows 8 Metro screen.
It’s clear that the once top of the pile social media king has made some drastic changes and it’s about time too. But when the boss has been busy trying to get back into the music industry as a performer, you understand why it’s taken so long. The question is, is there still time. I’ll be cynical and say there isn’t. People are just way too imbedded already in their social network of choice, and it seems like the most recent round of switching (to sites like Pinterest and Instagram) are over. Still, the New Myspace looks proper, and perhaps this is the whales-tail of the switch. After joining myself, I’d really like to think so.
Set up is easy and once you’re through what awaits you will immediately banish the awfulness of the old MySpace out of your memory. It was proper awful, but this is proper good looking. Worth noting is the massive allowance you get for your profile pic, 1,024 x 768. This is probably the most hi-res I’ve ever seen allowed. So they don’t just want it to look good, they want it to look crisp too.
Music’s on your left and then the social feed or “Trending” comes up on your right. Everything appears as a horizontal scroll bar like in Windows 8, and the influence of Pinterest and the philosophy of “make it look better” is immediate.
The New MySpace is a music streaming site like Spotify or Simfy mixed with the social network of Facebook. And my favourite feature is the “instant search”. Just start typing and the whole screen becomes a search bar with results for what you’re looking for. It’s like being in an app, in your browser. Like Inception for computers.
The New MySpace has a massive uphill battle ahead of it, and they’ve got to focus on one thing in my opinion: marketing. Their biggest goal has to be to get back to their former glory, and in a market already populated by awesome services like Grooveshark and Spotify internationally and Simfy and Samsung Kleek locally, it’s not going to be easy.
They’ve promised TV and movies in the near future. Could this be the clincher?
Get it: https://new.myspace.com/home
