Myspace founder admits defeat, joins Virb.
Uh, maybe not. But this amusing (and very fake) Virb profile for Myspace founder Tom Anderson is funny as hell. It also makes a great point about the flexibility of Virb. It might look like Myspace, but every link on the page is a functioning part of Virb's back-end feature set. The not-so-subtle implication is this: Virb is so customizable you can even make it look like Myspace. Unfortunately, Tom can't make Myspace look like Virb.
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UPDATE: One of the features that's received a lot of attention is the "turn off customization" button. How well does it work? Well, here's the same page above after I pressed the magic button.
After turning off customization, you see a bare-bones profile page. All the content is still there. You can restore the customization using the same button, and in an instant, the souped-up page is back. What's that sound you hear? The grateful sighs of a generation poisoned by terrible design.
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Still seems a bit 'beta'
I joined Myspace. I didn't plan to stay; I freely admit (because she already knows it's true) that I only joined to keep tabs on my daughter and the boys she met there. But I'm a stubborn b**** and configuring a Myspace layout is just unnecessarily convoluted and difficult. The ability to do it seems inversely proportional to the user's age. And the pre-made templates are, for the most part, completely lacking in any fundamental design principles. So I stayed, just to beat the thing into submission. From scratch. No pre-made templates for me. No... and no SLEEP for two or three days, either. It was an obsession. And then I managed it. And it was STILL butt ugly.
I just log in now to keep tabs on my kid. She's in my Top 8, but I'm in her Bottom 6. I'm deeply offended. Oh, not by that - she's a teen. I'd expect to be LAST. No, I'm deeply offended that I could raise someone who'd be satisfied with such a CRAPPY UI and such a TACKY pre-made template!
I just asked for an add over at Virb, btw...