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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2008 (4:26 PM)

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The "New" LiveVideo...

(I'm feeling confused)

So this site has finally been launched.

In all honesty I am pretty surprised it happened at all. I have heard about LV launching for well over a year now.

I don't know what I think about this new set up. My initial reaction was "wtf is all this shit?" This site is so overrun with features now that it's hard to navigate. One of the best things about the old LiveVideo was how intuitive it was to navigate. I remember coming to that site for the first time and knowing my way around instantly (as opposed to YT, who's site took slightly more thought). This new site however has every option you can think of; blogging, vlogging, gifting, Live TV, Chat, photos, music, widgets, groups, slideshows...

I guess LiveUniverse has decided to change their tactics: If we can't excel in one area, we'll just overwhelm everyone with features.

It seems to me that very sucessful sites are simple, focused and easy to use. I mean...look at Google. It's just a blank page with a box that you can type search words into. It has ONE main purpose, and that's it. YouTube...ONE purpose.

I suppose you can also point at myspace and say that it's riddled with shit too and is still successful. But I hate myspace, so if you said that, I'd slap you. MySpace (and I fear this will be the case with LiveVideo as well) has been taken over by teenagers who are easily amused by widgets and glitter graphics and have no sense of aesthetics what so ever. I absolutely HATE opening someone's myspace page only to find that they have fucked around with the sizing, added a media player that blasts music the moment I open it, have those fucking annoying gif images as a background...

ugh!

Facebook had it right. Keep things clean, keep things simple and don't give people too many choices. Why? because most people are idiots, and have bad taste.

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Posted Feb 10, 08 by anotherbrianne
i most certainly agree that most people are idiots and have horrible taste...

i've ditched myspace due to others' html abuse. i've found this to be very facebookish, in being able to move sections about... oh and of course, gifts!

Posted Feb 9, 08 by LVbianSynic
It's really overwhelming. I think it'll be easy to get used to, though. I hope so, anyway.

The LIVE stuff is what's causing me the most confusion- but I see I'm not alone. Everyone's fuddling around, trying to work out the technical details. Caveman's been like a LiveVideo repairman on every Live channel he visits (at least the ones I've run into him on). Pretty funny.

I should do a "Fear of LIVE LiveVideo" Fear Chronicle. lol