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MySpace gets a huge update with really slick profile pages.

By Brad McCarty Follow Brad McCarty on twitter on July 16th, 2010

Yes, really.

The social media maven that time seems to have forgotten has perhaps just thrown down the gauntlet in the world of social profiles.  To be honest, this is the one place where MySpace always really excelled, and something that Facebook is sorely missing.

Our image at the right is of the personal page for MySpace exec Sean Percival.  He hit Twitter with what we can only call an unofficial announcement just a couple hours ago.

As MySpace faded into the background, other services such as Magntize popped onto the radar, but MySpace has been there all along, plugging away.  In fact, we’ve recently seen news of some pretty major personnel acquisitions, and talk about new directions.

These new profiles might very well be the first step.

It’s worthy to note that the new profiles aren’t rolled out across the site as of yet, but maybe it’s time to go check your own if you remember the login credentials.  So far, all we know is that they look great, but it’s fair to say that these new profiles might be in a testing phase – now confirmed by MySpace:

“We’re testing a new look and feel of our site among users and the response so far has been positive,” …”As always, we’re interested in hearing feedback from our community as we roll out enhancements to the user experience and look forward to sharing more details with you in the coming weeks.”

On top of the overall new look, we’re also seen social icons that allow people to follow you around the Internet, as well as a Flickr Gallery.

Response, so far, has been mixed.  While we think it’s a really slick update to the site, some users on Twitter aren’t so happy about it.  We’re not certain, yet, what the full scope of the new profiles entails.  As we find out more, we’ll let you know.

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Brad McCarty

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  1. @MSC_Page says July 16, 2010
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    MySpace also acquired Threadbox today http://bit.ly/bOagfl

  2. r says July 16, 2010
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    Please please please let this rollout for everyone soon. Maybe now I can have the option, on people with hideous profiles, to view this instead. It seems like for every really well-designed profile, there’s a hideous one.

  3. Matt Churchill says July 16, 2010
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    It’s a bold move given the amount of time that users will have spent customising their existing profiles and this may have been a contributory factor in their reluctance to upgrade profiles until now. If it improves the load time experience then that’s even better.

    People are always against change on their favourite social network and only see the benefit after a while and they’ve got used to it, i’m sure the same will apply here.

  4. magnusdopus says July 16, 2010
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    Nice try, but still not as clean as FB. You might as well give up if you have to include that giant ad. I know I personally wouldn’t want my profile cluttered with some ad for god knows what.

    • chris says July 17, 2010
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      yeah not a huge fan of ads (who is?) but are you going to send them some money to pay their bills?

      one of the things i love about myspace is that they actually understand that their not the only website i use. i can use my twitter to update my status and they let me put my other social sites on my profile. :)

      Facebook brought friendfeed and STILL wont let me put my twitter feed on my fb wall – they only let page owners do it (probably because business’s suck their d1ck more than their users?)

  5. ceaseoleo says July 16, 2010
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    looks like they just copied bebo. Sad that they stopped copying facebook, and going after lower tier social networks

  6. Karen says July 19, 2010
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    HATE IT!!!!

  7. Icidburn says July 20, 2010
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    I hope myspace open the new Profile for everyone soon i Friend of me already got the new Layout and i want it to but dont get it. it looks 1000 times beter than 2.0

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