The Fall of MySpace

I remember my junior year in high school in 2004 when everyone had MySpace. All my friends personalized their own pages and friended everyone possible. Then we got older and started to use Facebook. We soon realized that Facebook was a superior website to MySpace for a number of reasons such as a cleaner layout, security features, and the coolness of having a Facebook at that time. Now six years later MySpace is seriously hurting. They have 100 million less visitors than Facebook and that number continues to grow. The company that bought MySpace a couple of years ago is now reconsidering the funding of the troubled site. So how can MySpace regain market share in the social media market.

MySpace is considering a massive redesign of their website. They know that they are have enormous problems with their website layout. Since MySpace was fully customizable a lot of pages were very hard to read. They are considering getting rid of this feature for a cleaner look. Also, there is a large security problem. Many people would get friended by  people they don't know creating a massive security and stalking problem. A major technology redesign is the most risky redesign possible. They are going to completely overhaul their entire website which leads to a larger possibility of failure. A company such as MySpace is redesigning because they are in a serious hole. They have to make critical redesign decision in order to attempt to regain market share in the social networking world.

Iphone to Verizon

With the very real possibility of Verizon getting the iPhone, I was left pondering what would happen to AT&T and Verizon. I think when Verizon gets the iPhone there will be a flood of people leaving AT&T for the iPhone. However, there are some limitations of the iPone on the Verizon network. With the Verizon network you cannot talk on the phone and multitask at the same time. This left me wondering if I would ever really need to do this. I have only done multitasked a few times on my iPhone, but would necessarily need to use this feature on the iPhone. Also, what would happen to the Verizon network if there was such a huge influx on their network? Also, would the iPhone loose its luster if everyone had one?
I think an interesting point that I have read about is what happens to the AT&T network when all these people leave? If people stayed with AT&T, there would be more space available on the network so that would mean fewer dropped calls. So should I stay with AT&T because of this new network availability? I am leaning towards staying with AT&T because of this network availability and multitasking.
I think another interesting point is why didn't AT&T invest in their network? They should have know that Apple was eventually going to offer the iPhone to Verizon. AT&T should have invested in their network so there was more coverage in areas and no dropped calls. If they fixed these problems then they wouldn't have the mass exodus that will happen when Verizon gets the iPhone. I don't think they invested because they thought people were going to get the iPhone regardless of the network because people wanted the Apple image.