Sponsor MySites Launches, Drama 2.0 Reviews
Cached copy of an article from The Drama 2.0 Show, July 2008, 2008, served from ramine.net so it stays readable if the original goes offline.
July 14, 2008
The Drama 2.0 Show reviewed MySites at its 2008 launch, describing it as a single place for all your online needs: an integrated platform combining photos, videos, music, documents, forums, and calendars. The interface mirrored the Mac and Windows file explorers in an AJAX-rich design, with privacy controls, access from the web, mobile, and mobile consoles, and a developer platform for third-party extensions.
The reviewer credited the strategy of targeting gamers and students in Europe rather than the saturated US early-adopter crowd, and was impressed by how far the technology and stability had come. The skepticism was the classic one for any one-stop service: whether MySites could grow enough users and find a business model while competing with focused tools like WordPress or Flickr in any single category.