the myspace hype
I keep reading articles relating to myspace. Recently they hired a "Chief Security Officer" to help with protecting the users on myspace from online predators.
This leads to wonder whether all this bad press about MySpace (it's dangerous!) and notoriety leads more kids to join it. If you were a teenager today, would you want to join a staid "emo" community like Livejournal or a potentially dangerous MySpace?
Maybe the trick for Tabulas is to market it as this totally hip, underground, edgy, dangerous place where only cool people meet. Hell, maybe I should even limit registrations (just kidding) so only "elite people" can join. I could be even crueler and not let them know when they're registering whether they are cool or not - a random number generator would randomly fail registrations with "SORRY YOU'RE NOT COOL ENOUGH, GO JOIN LAMEO XANGA." I could probably even cookie the user so they could never register.
haha (by the way, i would never really do this).
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minou_degrassi
If you need an in-house e-stalker and dirty-talker, I'll do it. By the end, Nancy Grace will want my head to roll. I'll be that bad.
roy
:o
Nighthawk
The press helps!
roy
brian
roy
anokaya
to tell you the truth, tabulas kind of has an indie-charm. it's quite popular here in the philippines, at least as far as i know. livejournal is for elitists, tabulas is for hippies. xanga is virtually unheard of here. blogspot is for old, boring people -_-`. just my two cents worth. tab is my favorite!
roy
There aren't any specific "plans" to target them; what I mean by targetting is simply offering tools that I think specific demographics will embrace.
I'd like to continue to maintain Tabulas "indie" style for all the current users, but my dream is to eventually allow older less tech-savvy demographics to use Tabulas to share with family and friends.
jihwan