Myspace now adds the leading photo sharing site Photobucket to its portfolio, and more importantly an estimated 46 MILLION people who use photobucket.
The purchase of the privately held Photobucket brings its photo and video exchange under the same ownership as the MySpace social networking site.
Recently, rumors of a MySpace-Yahoo deal began to circulate. That deal, exchanging MySpace for 25 percent of Yahoo, would value MySpace in the neighborhood of $12.5 billion.
According to the New York Times, the new MySpace TV will be available at a separate domain so that those without a MySpace account can still access video from the site’s users.
However MySpace TV is also said to be moving away from user generated content to focus more on professionally created content. For all the hype surrounding user-generated content, it’s still the professional clips that bring in the advertising dollars.
MySpace TV is not just a name though, the Times says that each MySpace member page will “link to a separate MySpace TV channel, which will display the videos the user has uploaded.”
As with the rest of MySpace, users will be able to unleash their hideous design choices on the web at large — customizing the page as it’s known in the trade.
MySpace also plans to launch an online video editing service later this year to compete with YouTube’s Remixer offering.
I recently read an article which was pretty much another Myspace vs Facebook article angle. While it was pretty much the same garbage thats been re-hased about these two sites one thing did catch my attention. It was talking about how Facebook has a cleaner approach then myspace, and zoned right in on how myspace lets you add just about anything to your 'profile'. Then they went into the whole music codes on myspace, and how you go to someones myspace page and suddenly you are slammed with random videos playing and all kinds of music and other crap.
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