Is tagworld better than myspace and y?

MySpace versus TagWorld - The Next Social Networking Showdown?











Friendster was once the cat's pajamas of social networking sites but as Daniel Spisak mentioned in a comment on Om Malik's Tagworld Takes on MySpace post:





"People forget that a big reason that Friendster lost its steam to MySpace was because back at the time Friendster's site was slow as molasses trying to deal with the crushing load to its servers."





Are scalability issues really what put MySpace over the top though (to catch up on last week's scalability debate see Jeremy Wright's thoughts on scalability or Om Malik and Naill Kennedy's latest podsession with 37signals)?





If MySpace did indeed succeed because of better infrastructure, TagWorld founders Fred Krueger and Evan Rifkin seem to be betting on a similar mindset: technology can be used to offer a more compelling user experience. Om notes that Rifkin believes "MySpace hasn't improved very much." The TagWorld focus, per Om, is a cleaner interface, more storage space, and "many more features when compared to MySpace."





I'm asking the same question as Om, "Will that be enough to get people to switch from their social networking environment?"