I haven’t expected a great deal of innovation from MySpace; I thought that MySpace TV is going to be a run of the mill video sharing site with a couple of MySpace-specific features.
Well, now the site is live, and as it turns out, it is just that, but it’s also completely the same as YouTube. By that I don’t mean that they stole the code or anything like that, but…just look at the damn thing. Below are screenshots of two services, for side by side comparison.
As you can see, the layout is the same. The features…well, except for a couple of minor details (digg-style voring instead of YouTube’s stars), they’re also pretty much the same.
In some other situation I might think this as a bad idea, but in case of MySpace keeping with what works is probably the best road they can take, as it will be very easy for MySpacers to switch from one service to another.
Wow, they really are the exact same. “Upload” is now “Upload Videos”…of course in the exact same position as YouTube, ha ha.
Just as they have their ‘Powered by Google’ under the search, perhaps they should have “Design powered by YouTube” under the layout.
I think it’s pretty typical of MySpace though and partly speaks to why they aren’t currently enjoying the buzz of Facebook. Facebook releases their own video upload service and it not only looks nice, but manages to add a few features to the standard YouTube has created - MySpace does the same thing a couple weeks later and it not only looks exactly like YouTube, but manages to add nothing.
@MG Siegler: yeah, MySpace exhibits all the typical problems of a fast-growing company acquired by a clueless giant.
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