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I need to participate in MySpace to promote my business. Is there a way to install a user CSS in my own browser that will override all the epileptic backgrounds, the Pepto-Bismol fonts and set a default to NEVER EVER play music?
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1. don't go there
2. if you have to, turn speakers off ;-) maybe use a browser that can override audio playback.
3. if you still think MySpace is a worthy thing to promote your business consider the following:
a. do you want to have the kind of client that found you on MySpace?
b. what photographers are marketing on MySpace, do you respect their work? (randal, you take good shots).
4. if you really want to get exposure figure out some whacky facebook hack, that stuff is taking off.
5. back to css... i think you can mess with the speed of playback for screen readers... but that's about it.
6. did you ever consider stock photography? I am working on it. -
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I want to sell $100 quicky photo sessions. webprofilepics.com/
And with hopes that with a watermark on the photo, the avertising can go viral in an online community. Why not pick the biggest, even if it's the most retarded? The dumbass clients that found me on MySpace are the exact public that I have no way of reaching currently.
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Simple answer: USe and promote Virb instead. www.virb.com
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How is Virb different than Friendster, Tribe, MySpace, Flickr, Orkut, Multiply, OKCupid, Book-of-the-Month Club, etc.? Sounds like yet another place to start over with a list of likes, a gallery, and a network of friends.
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Well yeah.. except Virb is actually usable AND customizeable. And as a user you have the ability to turn off bastard customizations with the click of a mouse. But when i say customizable i dont mean soem font colors and hardcore css hacking... i mean you can uplaod your own xhtml template and css. And its been buitl with integration into other third party networks in mind like external rss feeds, internal rss feeds, widgets, etc.
Im not saying it sany different in principal or i a radical new take on things... its just more usable than most of the others, thats all. Its funny how social networking has become kindof liek the browser wars... Youve got MySpace which is really like IE. Everyoen and thier mother uses, has used, or will use it despite the fact that its really shitty compared to say (Firefox, Konquerer, Opera)->(virb, facebook,tribe, etc..). -
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I would have predicted that Friendster would have taken the market share of MySpace. It was the first one that reached me, and it was usable and even nearly useful at first. except for the part where they never had discussions or affiliations. You had to create a fictitious person called "Burning Man" in order to represent a club.
But while we were keeping our moms off Friendster for privacy issues, the entire midwest discovered MySpace. And with its familiar 1997 format, it was love at first site.
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Here's my blog entry on how customizing MySpace is done:
blog.myspace.com/index.cfm
It's pretty easy if you just use the overlay method. Stick your content in a div that's positions over the old content. The CSS override method is pretty tricky and the results aren't as good.
Here's the New York Times article on why Friendster crashed and burned:
www.nytimes.com/2006/10/15...friend.html
Myspace is the new friendster in 2004. Facebook is the new Myspace in 2007. Maybe Virb will be the next big thing but for now social networking sites its about networking and number of users is a major factor.
Unfortunately, I know nothing about Facebook coding because no one's paid me to figure it out yet, but that may be around the corner.
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to answer your question, yes you can override just about anything on your own myspace profile. you just include the styles at the beginning of each module, like you woulld in an html file. however, you have limited options on affecting other people's profiles.
but I wanted to pose the question to you: WHY do you think you need MySpace to promote your biz?
is the myspace audience your specific demographic? Yes, it has a huge user base, but that's pointless if they aren't *your* users. it's mostly YOUNG people (like really really young). The kind that don't have income to buy photography, let alone have a need or interest to do so. The older members seem to be on other, better social sets as well so myspace isn't the only place to find them.
There are some performers there (mostly bands), and those may be able to use your services. But honestly most performers are just there to spread their comments and leave. I have not found them to be really seeking services while on myspace. In a nutshell, it's super-young people socializing and bands/businesses doing hit-and-run promoting. There are some talented artists on there, so if you're looking to network with other artists it may be worthwhile if you hunt them out. However, your competitors aren't likely to be buying your services.
If you feel it is a match for your target audience, do you have several hours a day to devote to navigating through the sad excuse for a site that is MySpace? Do you have several hours a day to devote to posting comments and replying to messages? Because that's what makes MySpace work for a biz. You need to do constant networking and make constant exposure, every week. If you have that time and myspace meets your demographic, then it may work for you.
Personally, I found MySpace to be a waste of my time. Everyone kept telling me I MUST use myspace. So I made a biz acct and tested it for several months. it was worthless. I got tons of views and comments, however most were from people just promoting their own stuff so it was like some weird tag game of hit-and-run. Anyone who urgently claimed they absolutely HAD to have my stuff never actually bought anything. The people who were interested were mostly teens who were like "wow, $20 that's a lot" or college students who shopped at HotTopic and wanted me to make things they saw there. And any other customer were people that initially found me elsewhere and just happened to be on MySpace as well.
I found that hardly anyone was using the chat groups, so that wasn't a fertile place to network. Most importantly... due to the crappy interface, lack of tools, and continual server crashes It took literally hours to respond to the friend requests and go through all the profiles posting pics in the comment areas to be seen. And that was when I actually could login. I'm not exaggerating that 70% of the time I couldn't even access my own account and another 30-40% of the time I couldn't access a friend's page to leave a comment. Honestly, can do 3x the networking in 1/4 of the time anywhere else.
Friendster seems lamer than MySpace. and Facebook is about the same. If you want a place to be seen I'd suggest targeting online sites and blogs frequented by your user base and doing some advertising there (many sell cheap ad space), or joining sites/blogs that are of interest to your audience and chatting there to draw them by attraction rather than promotion.
just some thoughts. :)
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What I meant was to shut down the blinding wallpaper and media anthrax of other people's pages, so that it's safe to surf the pages of potential clients.
this might work: Stylish, for Firefox
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fi...ddon/2108
