Popular social networking site MySpace will implement a site-wide redesign next week, in hopes of pumping up its demographics and encouraging more “user engagement” as Christopher Kaufman with Reuters puts it. This will be the largest redesign of a site its size. MySpace has over 110 million users worldwide and boasts 300,000 new sign-ups each day.
News Corp will spruce up MySpace’s “home page, navigation, profile editing, search, and MySpaceTV player facilities.” Even more changes are slated for summer. MySpace isn’t shooting for just a face-lift, the updated design will also improve how users interact with each other and with their advertisers. Tweaks will be made to its already popular search feature and they have been actively working with Lucene Open-Source (their first foray into open-source).
Log into your MySpaceon June 18th to check out the new digs!
[Note: It hurts my soul to post about MySpace, as Rupert Murdoch makes my blood run cold, but this is pretty big news so...sigh.]
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Filed under: Social Networking | Tagged: Myspace, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, Social Networking
