MySpace will be forced to open like AOL
Posted by matt on 18 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Newspapers, media, blogs, rss, myspace, socialnetworks, tribune, somewhatfrank, frankgruber, aol, web2.0newspapers, fredwilson
Frank Gruber points to Fred Wilson, who says that MySpace is the “AOL of Blogging.”
Frank, who recently joined AOL in the Product Development area for blogging and RSS, agrees a bit, but I think he neglects to point out the most important point that Fred brings up.
It’s something I’ve been saying about MySpace for a while and it’s very relevant to Tribune (where Frank and I met) and other newspaper and media sites trying to embrace social networking.
The point is, that if MySpace tries to create a walled-garden like AOL did, at some point their users will awaken and the MySpace service will either begin a slow decline, or they will recognize it and open up, like AOL did recently.
And so far, it’s looking like AOL did the right thing.
