MySpace Mobile Launched

[Janak Parekh]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-myspace-officially-launches-ad-funded-mobile-web-site/' target='_blank'>http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-m...obile-web-site/</a><br /><br /></div><em>&quot;Social network MySpace is officially launching its free ad-funded mobile web site, after a trial run in beta mode. The mobile site allows members to access the usual MySpace features, including viewing friends, photo albums, searching for friends, reading and composing messages and posting comments or blog entries. The site is also rolling out a new mobile community on the online site, which will house all of its mobile products and services in one place.&quot;<br /><br /></em><img border="1" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com//spt/auto/1206064436.usr12.gif" alt="" /><br /><br />If you're a MySpace user, you'll probably want to check this out; you can easily access it via the <a href="http://m.myspace.com">m.myspace.com</a> URL.&nbsp; Any MySpace users out there?&nbsp; I've found most people seem to be switching to Facebook nowadays, which has already had mobile interfaces for some time.

[frankenbike]

It's barely OK. The big flaw in it is that you can't search your own friends to find a specific one. You have to page through. In fact, there are no search functions other than finding people by known email addresses. Which pretty much makes it useless except to look at your comments or messages.

Since I'm already part of a large community on MySpace, we'd all have to rebuild it on Facebook to move over. MySpace seems functional enough in general, now that they've made spam a little more difficult using captcha.

I'm really at a loss to understand why mobile sites *always* lack the equivalent functionality to the desktop version, particularly in search functions.

Take Google for example. No blog search function on their mobile site last I looked. You can't change preferences for a really large number of searches on a page. You have to use the desktop version. With MySpace, you don't even have the option of using the "classic" version.

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[BevHoward]

might want to take a look at this article using the http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/mobile "mobile" page...

The myspace image/link is simply a large black square...

Have noticed this on a number of images since the conversion, but wasn't until I went in on the pc page that I found that the problem was confined to the mobile format.

hth,

[Rocco Augusto]

might want to take a look at this article using the http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/mobile "mobile" page...

The myspace image/link is simply a large black square...

Have noticed this on a number of images since the conversion, but wasn't until I went in on the pc page that I found that the problem was confined to the mobile format.

hth,

Thanks for pointing this out BevHoward, I will forward your response off to the appropriate party! :)