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While the demographic difference between MySpace and Facebook is 'apparent' to anyone who has used the two social networks even briefly, now we have the actual data to back up any empirical observations. According to Nielsen, Facebook is much more likely to be used by more affluent people while MySpace appe... |
28 September 2009
05:37 GMT |
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MySpace has been on somewhat of a downward trend lately but at least it’s starting to get with the times and, for once, it actually beat Facebook to the punch with the new two-way sync feature for Twitter. Users can now send out a tweet from MySpace and also set their status & mood on the social network from Tw... |
22 September 2009
04:14 GMT |
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It looks like the two biggest social networks in the US are getting into an open-source war as, just days after Facebook released the Tornado framework, MySpace is releasing its own piece of open software with the Qizmt framework, designed to handle large amounts of unstructured data, which is now powering the &ldquo... |
16 September 2009
11:52 GMT |
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Facebook has been growing tremendously at a relentless pace since it was fist launched, but has seen an even bigger uptake in users and traffic in the last year or so. Last May, Facebook finally overtook MySpace in the US and hasn't looked back since, and, apparently, is now the second largest site in the US aft... |
10 September 2009
09:20 GMT |
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While Twitter's traffic numbers continue to impress, a large portion of Twitter users doesn't employ the site itself, but connects using third-party mobile or desktop clients, and some estimate those users may be as many as those visiting the site. The most popular software client for Twitter is TweetDeck a... |
9 September 2009
05:43 GMT |
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The online ad market may not be having its greatest year, but things should pick up eventually and, when they do, it's going to be a very different ball game than even a year ago. Already, display ads on social networks make up more than 21 percent of the display advertising market in the US, and the trend is in... |
2 September 2009
03:41 GMT |
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MySpace has never been particularly well received outside of the US and it has never gained nearly as much popularity or market share as in its country of origin. Twitter on the other hand has been growing fast in the US but also worldwide and is especially popular in countries like the UK. Even so, it is interesting... |
1 September 2009
09:35 GMT |
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Social networking can be a great tool for connecting with friends or keeping in touch with family. But many times people forget that when they make something available for anyone it really means anyone, be it the police, burglars and even the taxman. For most people, revealing too much on social networks means maybe ... |
31 August 2009
04:35 GMT |
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Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, plans to boost personnel numbers up with 50% till the end of the year. He was quoted by Bloomberg saying that the company intended to take advantage of the financial and economic crisis to round up all the best engineers the market has to offer at the moment.Zuckerberg sa... |
24 August 2009
06:09 GMT |
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With MySpace struggling financially and dragging down parent company News Corp's earnings in the second quarter, it's no surprise that the social network is trying to shake up things in its advertising unit. Jeff Berman, MySpace's head of ad sales for the past three years and a half, is now leaving to ... |
21 August 2009
06:02 GMT |
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Confirming previous speculation, MySpace has announced it has acquired social music recommendation service iLike. The exact financial details of the deal weren't disclosed but MySpace is believed to have paid around $20 million, a sharp drop from previous valuations, which put iLike above $50 million. All employ... |
20 August 2009
02:47 GMT |
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MySpace is turning up the heat on cost savings. The social network hasn't been doing so well recently and the only part of its service to stand out or at least not get crushed by competitors is MySpace Music, the social network's joint venture with the big four music labels. But that doesn't mean it co... |
19 August 2009
05:05 GMT |
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The popular social music discovery service iLike has just launched its own music store, hoping it would provide the company with a more reliable revenue source in light of the declining online ad market. The news, coupled with iLike's immensely popular social networking apps, has made many ask how is MySpace, wh... |
17 August 2009
11:02 GMT |
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Dr. Jose Nazario, manager of security research at Arbor Networks, has recently discovered that the Twitter channel “upd4t3” has been relaying base64 command messages to a bot network through its tweets. Unnoticed by Twitter, the channel has been broadcasting messages containing encrypted information to a ... |
14 August 2009
10:11 GMT |
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It was bound to happen eventually and now it seems that the younger users are starting to leave social networking sites, at least in the UK. With hundreds of millions of users and with everyone from their grandmother to their teachers now using social networking, it's no wonder that it's becoming a less com... |
7 August 2009
05:04 GMT |
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News Corp., one of the largest media companies in the world, posted its financial results for the fourth quarter of the 2009 fiscal year and it doesn't look good for the media giant. While net income was of $5.4 billion last year, 2009 shows the company heading for a loss of $3.4 billion. All of its businesses a... |
6 August 2009
04:43 GMT |
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After the Department of Defense (DOD) announced a few days ago that it would start an investigation in the usage of social networking sites, the U.S. Marine Corps has issued an immediate one-year ban for many social network providers, until more details regarding the phenomenon will be available. This doesn't ... |
5 August 2009
06:59 GMT |
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A recent study by Anderson Analytics set out to find out how different generations were using social networks, which have become increasingly popular across all demographics. As they mature, social networks are slowly taken over by the older generations, sometimes becoming the groups with the largest number of users,... |
3 August 2009
11:22 GMT |
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Email has been around as long as the Internet and, while it’s still being used by hundreds of millions of people and it's unlikely it will go away anytime soon, there are plenty who are ready to move on and there are also many who have little use for the service, especially the younger generations. So, wit... |
31 July 2009
05:23 GMT |
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MySpace will launch its own e-mailing service today, according to PaidContent. Already some users of the social networking giant have been granted access to a personal "@myspace.com" email address, and today's launch is expected to be very low-key, since the service is still being tested. It is not yet known wh... |
23 July 2009
08:01 GMT |
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There aren't many pieces of good news for MySpace these days. If it's not the drop in visitor numbers or the decline in time spent on the site, it’s massive firings in the US and elsewhere. Having been overtaken by Facebook in the US recently and with a looming revenue drop once the Google advertising... |
22 July 2009
11:23 GMT |
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With online advertising hit hard by the weak economy it would seem natural that the market would change and players would shift their importance. This was the finding of a Borrell Associates study looking at online marketing spending on social networks. The study showed that local advertisers played a much bigger rol... |
14 July 2009
06:27 GMT |
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MySpace may be the current leader in revenue among social networks but it's not going to last if the existing trend continues. With a lucrative Google deal set to expire next year, and a new one most likely not in the works, at least not on the same terms, a large part of the social network's revenue will b... |
13 July 2009
10:22 GMT |
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Social media is expected to become an important part of the online advertising spending in the coming years but for now it looks like it will drop 3 percent in the US this year to $1.14 billion according to numbers from research firm eMarketer. However, the market is expected to pick up in 2010 and further in 2011. &... |
11 July 2009
07:13 GMT |
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Despite being the largest social network in the world, by a fair margin, Facebook continued to grow in June in the US with a healthy 8.45 percent rise in unique visitors. MySpace, the second largest social network in the world and in the US, having been recently overtaken by Facebook in the country, started to pick u... |
10 July 2009
04:17 GMT |
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Facebook is encroaching even more on MySpace territory, which, while overtaken by the former worldwide last year and recently in the US, still has the upper hand with some features. The popular social network is announcing a new feature today, called the “Facebook Fan Box,” which is a widget celebrities, ... |
9 July 2009
05:09 GMT |
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For a while the “Google will buy Twitter” rumors were very popular and so widespread that the move seemed inevitable. While there may have been some truth to the whole thing the rumors have since died down as Google made it clear it had no intention of buying Twitter, or maybe Twitter wasn't looking ... |
9 July 2009
03:34 GMT |
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The micro-blogging platform Twitter has been the fastest growing online brand in May 2009, with an impressive 1,448 percent increase in unique visitors year-over-year, but the rapid growth is beginning to show sings of slowing, confirming earlier reports, with only a seven-percent increase in unique visitors from the... |
24 June 2009
11:35 GMT |
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MySpace has announced massive international layoffs, confirming earlier reports, and continuing the trend started with the restructuring of its US operations. The company plans to reduce its workforce of 1,800 by 700, with 30 percent of the US employees being let go and 66 percent of the staff outside the US sharing ... |
23 June 2009
07:20 GMT |
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Earlier this week, MySpace announced that it would lay off several hundreds of employees in the US, confirming speculation. Now, according to TechCrunch, the social networking company plans to do the same for its international outlets although how, when and how many will be let go hasn't been decided yet. MySpac... |
20 June 2009
12:22 GMT |
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MySpace is confirming earlier rumors as it will lay off 30 percent of its staff of more than 1600 employees. The announcement came after it was reported last week that the social networking company would fire a “massive” number of people. “Simply put, our staffing levels were bloated and hindered o... |
17 June 2009
02:39 GMT |
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What many thought was inevitable, based on the trends, has finally happened, as Facebook has officially surpassed MySpace in the US in the number of unique visits. According to the latest data released by research firm comScore, Facebook marginally surpassed MySpace with 70,278 million unique visitors, compared with ... |
16 June 2009
04:24 GMT |
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MySpace isn't doing so great lately. Sure, it's raking in the cash for the time being, but it has fallen way behind Facebook, not to mention Twitter, in buzz and popularity. The fact that Facebook has just recently become the biggest social network in the US isn't helping either. And now the company wi... |
12 June 2009
08:50 GMT |
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Facebook may be the biggest social networking site in the world but the one thing that MySpace has always had as an advantage was page views. Users spent more time on MySpace and also did more things. Well, this isn't the case anymore according to a report by The Nielsen Co. The time users spent on Facebook grew... |
3 June 2009
05:22 GMT |
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Advertising company's SocialMedia.com CEO Seth Goldstein announced a collaboration with MySpace meant to create and use what they call 'Interaction Ads', which will utilize MySpace's internal data along with MySpace members’ own input to provide their friends with customized targeted ads.The... |
2 June 2009
04:32 GMT |
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A man accused of bank robbery was arrested by the authorities after he posted a message on MySpace boasting the crime, a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice in Columbia, S.C. states. Crime and stupidity go hand in hand but this time it took a more web 2.0 approach. The man, Joseph Northington, aged 27, ... |
30 May 2009
04:54 GMT |
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Deleting a photo you uploaded to the web should remove it from the server it is being hosted on, or at least make it inaccessible to the outside world, right? Wrong, according to Cambridge University researchers. Their team tested popular websites by uploading photos and then deleting them and the results were worris... |
21 May 2009
08:17 GMT |
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Chris DeWolfe, the current chief executive officer of MySpace, will step down from his position in the near future. News Corporation did not indicate just the exact deadline when the CEO seat would become empty, but it did emphasize that the move was the conclusion of a mutual agreement between DeWolfe and News Corpo... |
23 April 2009
09:03 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to introduce a new update to Windows Live. Brian Hall, general manager of the Windows Live Business Group, indicated that the refresh was just around the corner, while at the same time, making sure to point out that the evolution of the collection of services and applications under the Windows... |
22 April 2009
10:00 GMT |
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Ever since it was launched, MySpace has attracted more and more members and has improved the functions it offers to ensure a great user experience. Their latest innovation appeared in the form of a new button in the Nav Bar, which would enable users to switch the standard 'Full' view of the webpage to a new... |
15 April 2009
01:47 GMT |
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Recently, the popular social network MySpace has announced that it intends to release a new category in its Apps Directory, called “Editor’s Pick,” which would enable users to easily explore the best applications on the platform. Until now, MySpace used to display several such utilities in its Apps ... |
14 April 2009
01:55 GMT |
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If Facebook embraced Adobe's ActionScript, MySpace managed to adopt its direct rival, Microsoft's Silverlight. And while Adobe launched the ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API, officially supported by Facebook along with PHP and JavaScript, MySpace announced that the MySpace Open Platf... |
31 March 2009
07:06 GMT |
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Microsoft's Windows Mobile users have now a new reason to rejoice. After learning about some of the goodies that the Redmond company intends to bring with its future releases of the operating system, including support for its Marketplace and online services for mobile users with the upcoming WinMo 6.5, we also h... |
31 March 2009
03:04 GMT |
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Microsoft has made two of its most popular casual game titles available on Facebook and MySpace. The Redmond company is attempting to increase its presence among social networking communities, and in this regard is taking advantage of the world's top players. The “Hexic” and “Chess” games... |
4 March 2009
09:51 GMT |
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Over the past few months, social media websites such as Facebook and MySpace have come to be under constant attack from people who spread malicious software and other tricksters. Their goal is to collect the large amount of personal data that is being circulated on these sites, and to exploit it to their own personal... |
3 March 2009
08:55 GMT |
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For all those of you who get warnings about the amount of time you spend at work browsing on sites such as YouTube, Facebook and MySpace, there may yet be hope. Some innovative guys have invented the KeepMeOut website, a pretty useful tool if you want to avoid unpleasant situations with your bosses in the future. App... |
19 February 2009
04:34 GMT |
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MySpace, the leading social portal in the world, announced today the launch of a new optimized and more integrated mobile Website that would become available this week for its 20 million worldwide members. At the same time, MySpace also revealed plans to develop new applications for Nokia on the S60 web runtime envir... |
17 February 2009
06:17 GMT |
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It's rarely that the jail system in Minnesota has the honor of accommodating a guest of such a distinct magnitude as John Alfred Sharkey, the 44 year-old citizen who claims he is actually a vampire, though admittedly a modern type, seeing how he was incarcerated for harassing his former girlfriend, a teenager. H... |
11 February 2009
09:39 GMT |
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Although social media sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, are increasingly popular among Internet users of all ages, a new study shows that the two platforms are still dominated by teens and youngsters, and that, most likely, this trend will continue for the next years. There is also a big difference between the rea... |
15 January 2009
05:58 GMT |
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Protecting children from inappropriate web contacts is one of the modern-day concerns that each couple has to deal with. There are plenty of solutions to do so, ranging from parental control on various sites to advanced filters in antivirus programs. But a new panel study shows that there are no foolproof methods of ... |
14 January 2009
05:57 GMT |
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