MySpaceTV抄襲YouTube 12處 (e 文／圖)

白衣

MySpaceTV是MySpace最近發佈的視頻站，但它竟然和YouTube這麼像。國外有人指出，有12處嫌疑很大，你自己看看吧........

MySpaceTV
http://vids.myspace.com/

YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rFz_Wroq5I        // SF視頻

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MySpaceTV vs YouTube: 12 Things MySpace Copied

June 28, 2007 — 05:01 AM PDT — by Pete Cashmore — Share This

As we played around with the newly launched MySpaceTV, we realized that many of the features and interface elements are clones of those on YouTube, with no attempt to hide the fact. We’ve gone easy on MySpace and highlighted only 12 of the most obvious elements: there are many more.
But as we said before, however, we think copying YouTube may be the right strategy: MySpace doesn’t need to innovate, but simply get a fraction of its 170 million+ “users” to spend some time on the video site.

Video Pages

1. These tabs are identical. The only addition is a home tab on the left and a MyVideos tab on the right. The pages these tabs link to are very similar to their YouTube counterparts.

2. Upload Video. Positioning and style are the same. But wait: the arrow is pointing in a slightly different direction.

3. Subscribe. An oblong, 3D-effect orange Subscribe button to the right of every video. They’re just using the standard format? Not really: YouTube had a much smaller sub button for over a year. That said, the establishment of a standard may be good for users.

4. Director Videos become Featured Channels. The dimensions and position of this column are identical - frankly, the whole page layout is the same, save for a slightly wider column to accommodate the wider player on MySpaceTV. YouTube has the option of a wider player (click “New Beta Version of This Page”), however, which makes the two layouts nearly identical when enabled.

5. Find “More Videos from this User” and “Related Videos” using the navigation provided: it’s the same on both sites.

6. Related Videos in a column to the bottom right. There are lots of other positions to choose from.

7. It’s probably a bit pedantic to point out that MySpace’s video controls are the same as YouTube’s: a horizontal volume slider and the same buttons for changing the screen size. Perhaps this is standardization again.

8. Well, MySpace may have used the same position and styling for the sharing buttons, but at least they added new options like “Bulletin This” (send to all your friends). The rating system is also slightly different: a thumbs up replaces the five star system of YouTube.

Category Pages

9. The default on the Channel pages is to show the Most Subscribed channels this Week. Why not the Most Viewed Channels, and why not today, or this month? The decision to go the YouTube route is surely intentional.

10. OK, being a bit fussy here, but it’s pretty rare to put pagination at the top of a page like that. MySpace wouldn’t have done it if YouTube hadn’t.

11. Of course you need to view the top rated, most viewed channels and so on. But the first version of YouTube had these options along the top, showing that you don’t need to use the left sidebar for that.

12. There are lots of ways to represent channels, but MySpaceTV happened to choose a thumbnail and related info in a boxed, vertical rectangle against a differently colored background (the red rectangle makes it a little trickier to see, but look at the actual pages and they’re very similar).

The question: will these similarities help or hinder the adoption of MySpaceTV? Perhaps users will appreciate the familiarity?

Link to This Post: http://mashable.com/2007/06/28/myspacetv-youtube/

[ 本帖最后由 白衣 于 2007-7-4 12:31 编辑 ]

roy986

还用同一个视频，用心也算良苦。

Fred

这两个网站在国内都不能很正常的访问，另外国内的COPY更多...