MySpace New Profile Goes Live Globally

Posted by Nick O'Neill on November 10th, 2008 3:07 PM

-MySpace Theme Header Screenshot-

MySpace rolled out their new profile to Canadian users a few weeks ago and has announced that the profile is now available to all users globally. The primary change to the profile is that users now have a simple to use template system from which they can easily manage their profile layouts. This rollout comes soon after Facebook launched their site redesign.

In contrast to Facebook which basically crushed a lot of the widget-based applications with their new design, the new MySpace profile shouldn’t as significantly impact applications. The first version appeared to also let users manage their applications but that has since been removed. The new template system won’t affect applications significantly as they still are displayed on the profile page.

The key with the new design is to make the general site interface a lot easier to use. Also previously users had to hack their profiles by putting HTML in their profiles which gave rise to a relatively large MySpace profile layout industry. Unfortunately they don’t allow for customized profile submission in the new template system but I would imagine that this could be a future feature.

For now it appears to be focused on a simple templating system but it’s great to see that MySpace is focusing on improving the overall user experience. Honestly at this point they have no option. As Facebook continues to gain momentum by innovating on their user experience, competitors have been forced to innovate as well.

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