MySpace Generators - Layout Editor - M2Scripts.com

chao — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:12:15 -0000

Clipped by chao to make a business of MySpace Layouts

MySpace Generators - Layout Editor

Overview - $35.00

The Layout Editor is simply amazing. Upload the php script to your server and you have instant access to a very powerful tool. This generator creates programs for your MySpace profile. This MySpace Layout Generator is unique and one of a kind. It runs on javascript and php.

Its Slick Look

Upload the files to your host. Then access the index.php file. Below is a preview of what it looks like

Demo

Online demo: http://m2scripts.com/demo/layout-editor/

Top 10 MySpace Add-On Sites of 2006 - Mashable!

chao — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:34:04 -0000

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Top 10 MySpace Add-On Sites of 2006

December 8, 2006

Kelvin Beecroft, Mashable Labs

Kelvin Beecroft is the head of Mashable Labs, which conducts unique research into social networks, particularly widgets and other social networking add-ons. You can request research through the consulting form.

As the end of 2006 approaches, it’s clear that MySpace has spawned a cottage industry of sites supplying add-on content or media sharing services for profile owners. Many of these sites have seen phenomenal growth this year while at the same time questions loom around how to monetize. It’s interesting now to look at the top sites to see how they’re embracing such questions because for them this market is becoming big business.

This post is a look at the top add-on sites using a simple metric – reach. This is our measure of the number of profiles containing content from any of nearly 300 sites we’re tracking. We’re going to eliminate MySpace’s own widgets because we’re only interested in third party sites here. If we had included MySpace then their MySpace music player would certainly be in this list. We’re also going to look at sites as aggregate rather than individual widgets.

So, who’s in the top 10 for 2006? The table to the right shows Photobucket way out in the lead as the top add-on site by hosting content (photos, videos and slideshows) for nearly 17 million MySpace pages. But there’s more to this statistic than meets the eye. The number three site, Freeweblayouts.net, interestingly uses Photobucket for hosting of their layout graphics such as backgrounds. The same thing is going on with ImageShack and other layout sites. These are mutually beneficial relationships because they indirectly increase the user base for photo sharing sites (thus increasing hits) while providing reliable image hosting for layout sites. This demonstrates the value of establishing good partners in fast growing markets and being able to identify who good potential partners might be.

YouTube needs no introduction after their $1.65B deal.

But not everyone’s heard of Kwiz.biz, which came in at eighth place. They let you write survey questions such as “What do you dream about?” and then share those on MySpace or other social networking sites. This is a bright idea because it’s entirely user generated content which means lots of visitors to the Kwiz.biz website. They report over 30 million “kwizzes” taken. Since the site is monetized by AdSense those visitors translate into lots of clicks. This brings us to the mother of all AdSense sites – MySpace layouts sites.

All remaining sites in the top 10 are in some way involved with layouts. Be it pre-made layouts, or editors or glitter text. These sites are almost entirely monetized with heavy AdSense advertising. Sometimes the ads are so thick it’s difficult to distinguish content from ads. This list includes Freeweblayouts.net, Freecodesource, Blinkyou, Coolmyspacecomments, Mynicespace and Hotfreelayouts.

In this top 10 list we find two different financial models. First are the sites with venture-capital millions which try to get big and then figure out how to make money, e.g. YouTube. Second are ad-monetized sites with no aspirations of becoming the next YouTube. They are satisfied with getting rich 5 cents a click. I expect this list to look dramatically different one year for now because this time one year ago these sites were unheard of by most of us.

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