I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: MySpace sucks! On my favorite tech podcast, This Week in Tech, host Leo Laporte and columnist John C. Dvorak rip into it as well.
Leo: I was playing with my MySpace account earlier this week. I had it for a long time, but I’d never really done anything with it. I am stunned at how bad that user interface is. In every way it’s the worst example of web development I’ve ever seen on the net. I mean web 2.0, it isn’t even web 1.0!
Dvorak: It’s web 0.8.
Leo: And 90 million people think this is the state of the art on the web!
Dvorak: It’s unbelievable.
Leo: Kind of depressing really.
Dvorak: Well, they’ll snap out of it. [via TWIT Episode 67]
From MySpace to OurWorld [pdf]. Word…
P.S. – I just want to say that I’m not dissing the MySpace community (so much), or the people that use MySpace, just the site itself, and the technology underlying it. It just suprised me how poor the design and user interface was, given that it’s one of the most popular sites on the net. I guess it just goes to show that functionality and beauty don’t always relate to popularity. When something becomes popular it doesn’t matter how crappy or ugly it is. I mean look at the Windows operating system… 
