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Saturday, May 10th, 2008MySpace Embraces DataPortability, Partners With Yahoo, Ebay And Twitter
Announcing Facebook Connect
Three’s Company Or Three’s A Crowd? Google To Launch “Friend Connect” On Monday
I won’t pretend to know too much about these programs, but I will say this — the business development divisions of Google, Myspace, and Facebook are going to be working overtime recruiting partners […]
Myspace is Finally Making a Stride to Catch up With Facebook
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008Myspace’s new open “platform” (announced in October) that will allow developers to integrate their applications into Myspace is set to go live February 5th, according to TechCrunch. I haven’t logged into myspace in over a week, whereas I’m on Facebook every day — and nothing about an open platform similar to Facebook’s is going to […]
Myspace is Copying Facebook
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007According to TechCrunch, myspace is launching a platform for developers, adding increased privacy controls, and letting you group friends. Sounds a lot like Facebook.
Not that I care (I rarely log onto myspace anymore) — but seriously, when the hell are they going to launch a myspace “newsfeed”??
Myspace is Losing Steam
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Myspace (blue) is definitely losing the battle with Facebook (red). Here’s a chart from Alexa charting reach over the past year. Yes, I know Alexa stats are not great, but I think the overall trend is correct.
HOLY CRAP - I can Now Search for a Friend on Myspace!!
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007There’s no doubt about it — I hate Myspace. I check it every couple days just to see if I have messages or wall comments. It’s becoming irrelevant as all my friends are on Facebook anyway. Two weeks ago, the one friend I talk to regularly who had refused to switch to Facebook for the […]
MySpace is Run By Morons
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007Maybe I’m over-reacting, but are you freaking kidding me? I’m seriously shocked at how stupid myspace’s decision seem to be. BLOCKING photobucket? A huge reason that myspace has been so successful is that users have the ability to add all sorts of plug-ins and design templates to their pages. Just as bloggers love the capability […]
Myspace Generating $30 Million in Revenue Per Month
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007Congrats to myspace — $30 million a month in revenue is a massive number. To answer Mashable’s question — no, I’m not surprised the largest site on the net is making money. Too bad their revenue growth won’t continue forever. It’s only a matter of time before users jump off the myspace bandwagon. Long-term, […]
Web 2.0 - What’s the Next Wave?
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007Entering the internet time period that people will call Web 3.0 is inevitable, but the specifics of what web 3.0 is or will include is up for debate. There have been a number of articles written about Web 3.0 since Tim O’Reilly’s web 2.0 article in 2005- see here, here, and here. BUT instead of […]
MyBlogLog Makes Another Brilliant Move - MySpace Support
Sunday, December 10th, 2006Geez…MyBlogLog is making all the right moves! I haven’t kept up to date with tech blogs I usually read since Zillow’s Wednesday release, but I just checked TechCrunch and found that MyBlogLog launched support for myspace profiles, which should grow their audience/reach considerably. I do have a myspace profile, but don’t really use the site […]
MySpace & Putting all Your Eggs in one Basket
Sunday, November 26th, 2006Face it–putting all your eggs in one basket is a horrible business strategy. The more pieces of the business operations that a company controls, the better off they are. Are bands promoting themselves on myspace making the mistake of putting all their eggs in one basket? Teresa’s “The Death of Myspace” post at Blog Business […]
Six Degrees of Separation, Networking, and Getting Funded
Monday, October 16th, 2006So, how do you get on the radar of VC’s (and get funded)?? That’s the question many entrepreneurs are dying to find out…and, in my opinion, it all comes down to networking. The best and most proven way is to get introduced to a venture capitalist. Knowing connected people can open doors you never thought possible. All […]
The Failure of Friendster
Sunday, October 15th, 2006The New York Times wrote a fairly detailed article that takes a look at Friendster that was published today. I actually wasn’t aware of the fact that Google offered to buy Friendster for $30 million- just imagine if Jonathan Abrams had accepted that offer. Abram’s would probably be a billionaire (in google stock) and Friendster would have had access to […]
Engaging in the Conversation - Example of How NOT to Engage
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006This is a great example of how engaging in the conversation can go wrong– by NOT engaging at all! I thought I’d point this out to those of you working for companies that are not engaging in the blogosphere as an example of something that should NOT happen. Mashable, which just happens to be about the […]
MySpace Worth $15 Billion Within 3 years?
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006Who knows, this could turn out to be true…but I’m certainly not convinced. I doubt Myspace will be worth $15 billion to its shareholders within 3 years. In general, social networks don’t remain popular for that long, unless they are highly targeted. Myspace is actually on the opposite end of the spectrum (IMO)…highly UN-targeted. They […]
Facebook Opens Its Doors to the World
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006Wow- Facebook’s doors are open to the public now. No longer are they a totally exclusive college social networking site! Granted, this isn’t unexpected. This puts them in a position to take a run at Myspace. They announced it on their blog this morning and also explain how this expansion affects existing users here. Read more about […]
Large Social Networking Sites the End All Answer?
Monday, September 25th, 2006In short- No! I came across this comment on mark cuban’s ”Some predictions come true, some don’t“ post today-
1. You may have been too lazy to do anything about “communities of interest” at the time - but it certainly isn’t too late. I don’t think huge social networking sites are the end all answer - I think […]
Facebook to Sell?
Thursday, September 21st, 2006$1 billion for a Facebook acquisition? Who might shell out the money? Google? Nope…Yahoo! is the interested party. Myspace got $580 million and (now) has 100 million members. Facebook has 10 million members and might get $1 billion? How’s that work? The argument must be in potential market and the more targeted (and valuable) audience that […]
“Real” vs “Virtual” Communities
Monday, September 18th, 2006Are you interested in questions such as these?
Are there any significant differences between “real” and “virtual” communities, and if so, what is the nature of those differences? What does the term “community” actually mean within such a rapidly transforming context of mediated communication technology? Is the internet really a “social” network as such, or a […]
Myspace Blog
Monday, September 18th, 2006Does anyone else find it weird that Myspace doesn’t have a corporate blog? I find it rather odd that a site with over 100 million users and is supposed to be “web 2.0″ doesn’t have a regularly updated company blog. Facebook is starting to make good use of their blog. Get with the program Tom (tho […]
Social Networking and the “In” Crowd
Saturday, September 16th, 2006I just came across an interesting article from the Economist that talked a bit about how media companies are looking for ways to tap into the crowds of people engaging in social networks. Here’s the conclusion to the article-
One defence for social networks is to develop other revenue streams. Last week MySpace announced that it would […]