“If you’re not on myspace, you don’t exist.” By now, everyone’s heard of MySpace. So what are some of the secrets behind its success, and what can we take from it? How about ultra-fast release cycles?
Skyler’s comment about how myspace keeps changing and growing organically, almost every day, is a passionate user’s view of what the developer’s call quick release cycles. Where software developers are typically on release cycles of 6 months to a year, the Threadless guys said that even two weeks was a little long. In fact, virtually all of the web 2.0-ish folks at the conference mentioned these quick release cycles as crucial.