#myspace

"Internet law professor Michael Geist says the walled gardens of social networks should be pulled down."

"Everyone else seems to be interested in sending me some downright scary perverted messages that make me feel like I need a shower in rubbing alcohol after reading them."

"MySpace is "killing themselves with this -- castrating the ecosystem that built them," says Gerd Leonhard, founder and CEO of Sonific, a music-streaming company."

"Today I announce that I have reversed my position and come out in full support of gay marriage…particularly marriage between two passionate females.

"The same open door that gives you a world of knowledge and communication is also a piping hot shit-gun of horror."

"think it's definitely going down -- a lot of my friends have deleted their MySpaces and are more into Facebook now"

Oh, Weird Al is *so* added to my friends.

I was building something like this at my last job. "Here's a MySpace parser. Usage is straightforward; the constructor takes a MySpace URL or numerical ID, and profile, friend and comment details are exposed as attributes"

"This improper use of "friend" quickly destroys community - which is all MySpace is there for."

"Download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion... and other 60+ video sites"

"This tool lets you important headlines from your blog, LiveJournal, a news feed, or other source into your MySpace (or Friendster) page."

"99% of the customizations I've seen are chalkboard-screechingly awful, but what could a MySpace home page look like if some actual design thought went into it?"

"Makes me shiver really, because unlike some new tech or trend, I may never be able to truly get what's going on just because Im a grey-haired father of a toddler who lives in suburbia, drives an SUV and would rather watch a movie on Saturday night rather

"The MySpace Legion Of Extraordinary Stupid Hair Super Heroes!"

"clever bit of viral javascript imbedded into his myspace page"