MySpace, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Benedict Evans 19
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where MySpace comes up
Token pricing
- ▶ 18:25 Benedict Evans Meta had to get everybody to switch from MySpace to Facebook. 2 times in the scene
The end of the network effect
- ▶ 20:29 Benedict Evans And, you know, even, you know, we've been talking about network effects, even, you know, the canonical example of the failed first leader of MySpace, 2 times in the scene
The AI presentation
- ▶ 9:47 Benedict Evans He also bought, tried to buy, he also bought, but he did buy MySpace, and that didn't work.
A double episode: AI differentiation, and Apple does F1
- ▶ 4:04 Benedict Evans Everyone used MySpace, and we did have network effects, and then people switched to Facebook, because it was better.
- ▶ 13:02 Benedict Evans And you do get to a point where you can say, well, MySpace didn't work the way Facebook worked.
Looking for AI strategies
- ▶ 0:55 Benedict Evans Or you can pick up the iPhone, and Android, and BlackBerry, and Windows Phone, and Siri, and Memo, and MyGo, and like, all the stuff that was happening, and kind of think, well, they're trying to do this, and this product's trying to do…
Ai eats the world
- ▶ 14:40 Benedict Evans Are you my space?
Threads
- ▶ 2:22 Benedict Evans And so MySpace hadn't, although people will recite MySpace, MySpace hadn't won. 2 times in the scene
Working out AI questions
- ▶ 11:42 Benedict Evans Um, it's sort of present, you know, in implicit ways in the past, it's sort of present in, you know, MySpace was really slow, and it's present in,
The Evolution of networks
- ▶ 2:30 Benedict Evans And then step forward, jump forward a bit, and you go to MySpace and then Facebook, where you have a network that will get you audience. 3 times in the scene
What we know about web 3 so far
- ▶ 3:35 Benedict Evans But you can't examine the workings of your iPhone or Windows or anything else, let alone Facebook or MySpace, which again, or LinkedIn or whatever, which are all full of open source code.
Metaverse - beyond the buzzword
- ▶ 31:20 Benedict Evans Yeah, the timing is wrong, and the tech's wrong, and you haven't got the formula right, and it's not, when people, you know, MySpace didn't quite work, or MySpace was there, and then Facebook did much better, and blah, blah, blah, blah,… 2 times in the scene
The FTC and Facebook
- ▶ 13:35 Benedict Evans Supposing WhatsApp didn't happen, supposing Instagram hadn't happened, supposing they'd happened and failed, supposing they'd happened, gotten bought by Fox, rolled into MySpace and killed.