INTRO
MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. MySpace also has an internal search engine and an internal e-mail system. The service has steadily gained more recognition than other websites to achieve nearly 80 percent of visits to online social networking websites. It has become a more and more significant part of modern popular culture, especially in English speaking countries. The company employs 300 staff, is owned by News Corporation, and does not disclose revenues or profits separately from News Corporation. With the 100 millionth accounts being created on August 9, 2006 and a news story claiming 106 million accounts on September 8, 2006, the site reportedly attracts new registrations at a rate of 230,000 per day. Myspace is just over two years old, MySpace has 2 � times the traffic of Google, and it quickly eclipsed Friendster as the top social-networking site where users build larger and larger circles of friends. MySpace learned from other old sites and figured out the right tools to package. And when its founders noticed heavy usage among musicians and fans, it embraced that segment with custom features.
MIS THEORY
The software that Myspace uses is Microsoft-IIS 6.0 on the Windows Server.
MySpace allows users to adjust there page by using new software tools. Although JavaScript is not permitted, HTML/XHTML and CSS can be used to change the huge in style of the profile to the user's first choice. Users also have the option to add music into their profiles via MySpace Music, a service that allows bands to post songs onto their profiles. Videos, flash-based content, and almost anything else can be added, much like a normal HTML page. Since many users of MySpace do not know HTML, third-party code generating websites have appeared to help these users.
FINDINGS
When you use Myspace the profiles contain two normal "blurbs": "About Me" and "Who I'd Like to Meet" sections. Profiles also contain an "Interests" section and a "Details" section. Profiles also contain a blog with standard fields for content, emotion, and media. MySpace also supports uploading images. One of the images can be chosen to be the "default image," the image that will be seen on the profile's main page, search page, and as the image that will appear to the side of the user's name on comments, messages, etc. MySpace has also added the option to upload videos via the MySpace Videos service, that are played via a standalone Flash player.
Since early 2006 MySpace has offered the option to access the service in different regional versions, much like Google and other search engines. In reality the user is currently directed to their "local" site irrespective of attempts to explicitly choose another. These options offered are: Global site, Australia, France (currently in beta), Germany (currently in beta), Ireland, UK, and US (although this is in fact identical to the "global" site).
The alternative regional versions present automated content according to locality (e.g. UK users see other UK users as "Cool New People", and UK oriented events and adverts, etc.), offer local languages other than English, or accommodate the regional differences in spelling and conventions in the English-speaking world.
The tools used in social software applications include communication tools and interaction tools. Communication tools naturally handle the capturing, storing, and appearance of communication, usually written but gradually more including audio and video also. Interaction tools handle mediated interactions between a pair or group of users. They differ from communication tools in their focus on establishing and maintaining a connection among users, facilitating the mechanics of conversation and talk.
Communication tools are generally asynchronous, interaction tools synchronous (phone, Net phone, video chat) or near-synchronous (IM, text chat).
We can add to this difference one that describes the main user experience of each: communication involves the content of talk, speech, or writing; communication involves the interest users establish in one another as individuals. In other words, a communication tool may want to make access and searching of text both simple and powerful. An relations tool may want to present as much of a user's expression, performance, and presence as possible. The organization of texts, and providing access to archived assistance differs from the facilitation of interpersonal relations between contributors enough to warrant the difference in media.
CONCLUSION
In conclusion Myspace, is a really good way to meet people and also good way to keep in touch with your friends. I feel Myspace was a good topic to write about because the internet is a huge influence on people lives today. Also people are always on online and always to trying to meet new people and keep in touch with there friends. Myspace has become one of the most popular website and social communcation out there.
