RSSMySpace upgrades itself to 'Profile 2.0'
By Tim Conneally | Published November 10, 2008, 2:36 PM
Based around what MySpace's Tom Anderson says are several years worth of user requests, the popular social networking site has rolled out the updated profile system that has been in beta since earlier this year.
The new profile improvements are based around four ideas: privacy, speed, customization, and Web standards. In Profile 2.0, the permissions to each section of a user's profile can be tailored, allowing certain users to see only sections of the profile. Sections can be hidden entirely or truncated to speed up load time, and layout can be tailored by dragging and dropping sections or by using pre-made layouts. Also, with the exception of the MySpace header and footer, the new profile pages are W3C compliant.
Like Facebook's new profile system, participation is entirely optional.
News Corp.'s MySpace began a downward trend in traffic that was highlighted earlier this year when it was surpassed by competing social network Facebook. Page ranking site Alexa now places Facebook among the top five most popular Web sites in its rankings. MySpace is ranked at #7, just behind MSN and ahead of Wikipedia.
I update the profile 2.0 but I have problems and I want to get buck at profile 1.0. PLEASE HELP ME
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|It's and improvements, what would really help MySpace if if the user would stop posting a 4 Minute Video or huge graphic in the Comments section.
If your profile takes more then a couple seconds to load, people CLEAN UP!!!
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|And if they would stop trying to babysit their users...
"This link has been disable because it was very naughty."
Umm, okay, and the fact that I can swear like a drunken sailor in comments isn't?!
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|i like it! it's a way better than new facebook!
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|MySpace... a great place to get a free virus
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|W3C is the organization. Which of the organization's specs does MySpace plan to adhere to?
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|I'm guessing HTML. I use http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/ for firefox and it actually came up with no errors.
I don't think I've ever seen that before. Usually I'll at least see a few "warnings".
Someone else might want to test this in IE though.
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|I'm hoping for XHTML Strict with CSS, but that's probably too much to hope for. Or XML and XSL with XSLT into XHTML Strict and CSS.
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|"Like Facebook's new profile system, participation is entirely optional."
Uhh? No?
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|Yeah, its now mandatory for facebook, but I don't mind it.
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|It's ok but i would of stuck with the other layout.
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