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The rumors that MySpace is acquiring music streaming service iMeem for a bargain-basement price have gotten some more weight behind them and a deal looks pretty much certain at this point. The deal doesn't paint a pretty picture for the music streaming business and it remains to be seen if MySpace has better lu... |
19 November 2009
09:30 GMT |
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The online music space is in a volatile state with newcomers popping up seemingly every week while older services are dwindling, having failed to reach the popularity they needed to survive. But, while they may not be thriving financially, the online music market is sure to explode in the coming years and already som... |
17 November 2009
11:08 GMT |
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Britney Spears has got her Twitter and MySpace accounts hijacked by vandals looking to defame her. The rogue status updates posted yesterday on her feed made references to Devil worshiping and the New World Order.Britney Spears, Twitter and hackers seem to be a recurring theme. Back in January, she was amongst the vi... |
13 November 2009
05:48 GMT |
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A Web developer has documented a proof-of-concept attack that could have been used to hijack accounts and steal private information on Facebook and MySpace. The attack leveraged a serious security oversight in XML configuration files used to define the cross-domain access policy for Flash applications.The discovery w... |
6 November 2009
08:08 GMT |
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It's common knowledge that MySpace has seen better days, as the once-biggest social network in the world loses even more traffic and users. But at least it had something to fall back on, a $900-million deal with Google running until mid-2010, which would guarantee at least part of its profits. But this isn'... |
5 November 2009
08:34 GMT |
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Google's not-so-spectacular-after-all music service, first rumored last week, is now official and no, it's not an iTunes killer or a Spotify killer for that matter. It's something closer to home for Google, an extension of its search engine dedicated to music. That being said, the music OneBox (Google ... |
29 October 2009
04:04 GMT |
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In a move that wouldn't be completely shocking today as it would have been even a few months back, Facebook and MySpace are apparently in talks for some sort of content partnership. According to The Telegraph, this has been confirmed by high-ranking officials at both companies though the nature of the deal isn&#... |
27 October 2009
09:35 GMT |
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MySpace as a social network has pretty much lost the race. In fact the social network's CEO is the first to admit it, though reluctantly, but says that MySpace is now focusing on an entirely different space aiming to become an entertainment hub rather than a place to connect with friends. The social network is n... |
22 October 2009
06:33 GMT |
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Despite a new-found wave of enthusiasm at MySpace, the social network's decline shows no sign of stopping anytime soon. News Corp., MySpace's parent company, isn't doing great financially either, so rumors that the companies are looking to get rid of Photobucket, the popular photo-sharing site acquired... |
17 October 2009
04:05 GMT |
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A group of scientists has recently published a new paper arguing that monitoring the activity that teens and children have on social-networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, could lead to a decrease in the number of suicides in this age group. Victoria University School of Information Management Professor Dr. ... |
14 October 2009
10:56 GMT |
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Facebook just keeps on growing and its worldwide dominance is matched by its growing share of the US market. The social network has just managed to overtake MySpace in the country less than half a year ago and now it's already distancing itself in terms of market share, grabbing a 59-percent slice. MySpace, on... |
10 October 2009
04:46 GMT |
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While the large social networks are getting all of the attention with Facebook or Twitter constantly in the spotlight it's the developers who create apps for them that are raking in the money. While Facebook is struggling to break even, app developers, especially those creating social games, are making a very ti... |
6 October 2009
09:12 GMT |
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Everyone roots for the underdog and with enough hype you start to believe that the little guy can really threaten the established players. But every so often you are reminded that most of the times size does matter and MySpace demonstrated this handily when it unveiled the two-way sync feature with Twitter last week.... |
29 September 2009
06:02 GMT |
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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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