Uber.com vs. MySpace (or vs. Saatchi-gallery.co.uk)
03/19/2007
Why?: Though you can post your art work and especially your music to MySpace, MySpace is more for the "common" man/woman and wasn't created for the creative professional. Sites like Uber and Saatchi highlight the arts by blogging outstanding users.
The test: Clout is really the issue here, who has the most? On the surface Saatchi has the name as it's already a well-known gallery for under-represented artists in the UK and it's social-networking site has been written up in the New York Times. Uber show-cases more people but is relatively unknown. MySpace is MySpace.
I figure I want to use the site that has the famous art people on it. So I searched them all for Shepard Fairey.
Saatchi = No.
Uber = No, and the search engine for "find people" annoyingly searches YouTube, flikr, and amazon, giving me media results instead of the result I want.
MySpace = A search reveals a Shepard Fairey fansite and Swindle Magazine's official MySpace page.
Judgment: It looks like MySpace wins, but if I was an artist I'd start a Saatchi page anyways. . .
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