MySpace Users Discover Streams. Does It Matter?

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Twitter. Facebook. Twittter. Facebook. The duo gets in more commercials than Billy Mays.

Blog, blog blog…show that content.

And if you’re really savvy, you’re syndicating on other platforms, still digging, liking things in reddit, and stumbling upon crazy content.

And so on…

But not MySpace? Never MySpace! Why not MySpace?

MySpace is simpler to use and allows you to share more content simply and easy. Try embedding video on your Facebook page.

So Why Did MySpace lose out?

If I had to guess, I would say MySpace became the victim of allowing their users too much control over the look of their pages. And when you have enough friends who have no creative eye yet spend hours designing their pages as if the do, the typical result is volumes of horrific-looking pages that afterwhile you just don’t want to look at anymore.

MySpace’s look gets substituted for their user’s lack-of-creative-vision, and eventually the lack of a structured look and feel left for the stigma that MySpace was for “14-year-olds and crack dealers.”

MySpace “Stream” to Help Users “Discover”

It looks like after getting slapped silly by Facebook in 2009, MySpace might be trying to fight back. They’ve restructured, cleaned house, rallied their employees, and according to TechCrunch, MySpace will be running with a new theme:

“Discover and Be Discovered”

And to go with the discovery theme, MySpace have added a new feature to help users see what content their friends are viewing. The new MySpace feature sounds like it’s going to be called, “Stream.”

What songs are your friends listening to? What Videos are they watching? The Stream will tell you.

And MySpace is going social with helping users find that content by pounding the pavement and streaming events via UStream. The most recent was their coverage of the Alice and Wonderland premiere. Included are interviews with the cast:  Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Anne Hathaway…

Broadcasting Live with Ustream.TV

MySpace has always been a place for music and has always been the one-stop shop for content. Of all the Social Media Networks, MySpace has been the leader in these areas. And it looks like they’re going to focus on playing to their strengths in 2010. In short, they’ll work on being a better “MySpace” instead of trying to be more like Facebook.

The question will be:  “Is it too late for users to discover the new changes in MySpace?”