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MySpace Wants to Become Your Privacy Buddy

May 18, 2010 by Andy Beal with 134 views

OK, it’s 2005. Imagine you are the reigning social media champ, MySpace. You are the number one social networking site and you get all the great press. It appears as if there was no way to stop you. You even get purchased for some serious scratch from one of the premier media companies in the world, News Corp. Sure there are some... [read more]

Social media 2009 and beyond

December 20, 2009 by Kate Carruthers with 532 views

2009 ranks as both the year that social media went mainstream and as the year that we saw a seismic shift in the comfortable world of traditional media. Some evidence of the former is the fact that Dell made $6.5 million in direct sales via Twitter. Further evidence is the rise of the social media job, with titles like Emerging Media... [read more]

Tumblr and Music

August 18, 2009 by Fred Wilson with 186 views

MySpace has always been the social media destination for musicians and their fans. The rumored acquisition of iLike (new management's first purchase), suggests that music and entertainment will be even more of a focus for MySpace going forward as it looks to differentiate itself from Facebook and other social networks.But I am... [read more]

Facebook Emerging as Social Media of Choice for UK Younger Set

August 12, 2009 by Andy Beal with 153 views

By Frank ReedEveryone wants to figure out who has this social media thing figured out. One of the things that gets attention in a hyper covered area like social media is saying something contrary to what appears to be the conventional wisdom. In the UK, we have heard from 15-year ‘analysts’ and now we hear from the UK media regulator,... [read more]

Will the Wall Street Journal Take a Real Shot at Social Media?

August 1, 2009 by Andy Beal with 155 views

By Frank ReedAs I like to do when a post involves some ‘creative thinking’ I am warning you on this one. TechCrunch is ‘reporting’ the Wall Street Journal’s possible attempt at creating a social community (WSJ Connect) that could compete with the LinkedIn set. I realize that outside of the Microsoft-Yahoo nuptials there has been little... [read more]

Social Networking – Past & future

July 30, 2009 by Kate Carruthers with 162 views

Looking back to 2007 – and it seems so long ago now – social networking was just starting to get a bit of buzz happening. Some of the social networks that we were talking about in 2007 included Bebo, MySpace, Second Life, and YouTube. Back in those days we were all talking about Second Life, and pondering how it might revolutionize... [read more]

MySpace and Bebo Running Out of Friends. How Will Twitter Fare?

July 9, 2009 by Bill Ives with 125 views

MySpace and Bebo are falling behind in the world of social networking. Charles Arthur and Jemima Kiss recently examined their decline and their rivals' rise in the Guardian. MySpace was purchased by Rupert Murdoch in July 2005 for $580,000,000 and Bebo, big social networking site in the UK, bought by AOL in March 2008 for $850,000,000.... [read more]

How to Use Social Networking Sites to Promote Your Biz

June 29, 2009 by Niall Devitt with 180 views

Btb Guest Author Zeke Camusio Twitter looks like a foreign language and Facebook intimidates you with its features. You signed up for these social networking sites but you are stumped – how can these sites actually help your company? Social networking sites are easy to navigate, yet they look confusing to new account users. The... [read more]

Don’t fall in love with your social networking platform

June 27, 2009 by Kate Carruthers with 167 views

I remember that two years ago the we were all fussing about MySpace. Then last year we were all abuzz about Facebook. And this year the big thing is Twitter. What this means for most of us is that we ought not fall in love with a particular social networking platform. I don’t know what we’ll all be talking about next year yet. But I... [read more]

MySpace: the Web 2.0 Victim of Innovators Dilemma.

June 25, 2009 by Tac Anderson with 638 views

Image via CrunchBase There’s been a lot of talk about the massive layoffs and restructuring happening at MySpace. While among social media elites MySpace has become a bit of a joke I wanted to take a minute to reflect back on an old friend. I’ve never been all that impressed with Facebook. MySpace taught me about the power of social... [read more]

MyPlan For MySpace

June 21, 2009 by Jonathan Salem Ba... with 121 views

MySpace has fired 30% of its workforce, or about 400 people, just as parent company News Corp. scrapped a $350 million plan to consolidate it in a new office with the other components of Fox Interactive Media.  Most of the business coverage sites blame falling advertising sales and traffic gains by Facebook. As you may know, News... [read more]

A Brief Guide to Personal Branding using Social Media

June 20, 2009 by HasanShirazi with 238 views

Becoming a thought leader in an industry requires expert level knowledge and vision, accompanied with the ability to communicate and align with relevant people. Social media provides that platform and power to reach out to people online and create a powerful and long lasting personal brand. Personal branding is no different than product... [read more]

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn… Oh My

May 5, 2009 by Brian Critchfield with 382 views

I recently wrote an article in Eagle Magazine on social media and the 3 major networks. This covers the basics of social media and the reason behind the phenomenon. I have reprinted the article below. Enjoy: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn… Oh My: Social networking isn’t limited to coffee shops and cocktail parties anymore There is an... [read more]

A Collection of Social Network Statistics

April 22, 2009 by Gavin Heaton with 186 views

Statistics are loved by marketers. It is as if they provide us with a sense that our art is based in science, that we can somehow use this real time, freshly harvested data to predict future patterns of consumer behavior and that this, then, is the key to the executive suite. Certainly, statistics are an important aspect of marketing,... [read more]

It's Not About the Eyeballs, It's About the Glasses

March 23, 2009 by Gavin Heaton with 104 views

The changes that we are experiencing in the global economy are clearly challenging the way that we go about the business of branding. Funding is drying up, consumers are driving a range of new approaches to the content we produce and the manner in which we consume it, and agencies struggle to clearly plan and execute engagement... [read more]

Top 25 Social Networks

February 24, 2009 by Brian Critchfield with 844 views

Recently, Compete.com posted new statistics on the Top 25 Social Networks ranked by monthly visits. While many social networks like to tout their number of users, monthly visits is a true measurement of usage. In other words, which social networks are getting used? The numbers are below:(Credit Compete.com)As you can see from the... [read more]

Completely and totally unscientific . . . but Facebook beats LinkedIn and Myspace for growth

April 27, 2008 by carterfsmith with 43 views

. . . and, I'll bet more Twitterers have Facebook than LinkedIn and more Facebook than a MySpace (or at least they talk about Facebook more).(corrected) According to Twist, which displays trends on Twitter, Facebook is discussed a lot more than MySpace (at least in the past week). And there's a whole lot more being discussed about... [read more]

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