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January 19, 2007
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The Social Network Difference People use social networks to stay in touch and share media. But what makes people choose one over another?   |
InternetNews
August 22, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Friendster's VC Hopes Rest on Patent Wishes Social network Friendster got some venture capital, but the figure doesn't hold up to other deals. |
InternetNews
March 7, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Friendster Google Searches For Profitability Social network Friendster today announced a multi-year deal that makes Google the exclusive provider of search and advertising for the one-time market leader. |
InternetNews
October 3, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Friendster Hitches Onto Facebook Platform Social-networking pioneer Friendster is striking an agreement with rival Facebook to roll out support for Facebook's developer standard. |
InternetNews
December 20, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
How Social Networks Became Useful Think social networks hit it big this year because of meeting a litany of people online? Think again. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 16, 2006
Sean Silverthorne |
Is MySpace.com Your Space? Given the backlash, is MySpace a safe bet for advertisers? |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Thanks for the Ad, MySpace News Corp.'s leading social networking site has its eyes on the search engine marketing prize. |
InternetNews
May 8, 2007
Pauline Millard |
MySpace to Drop Cash in Photobucket? Numerous sources are reporting that MySpace is purchasing the four-year-old Photobucket for close to $300 million in cash, thus merging the photo-hosting service with the social-networking site it's grown off of. |
InternetNews
October 18, 2007
David Needle |
MySpace Plans to Get More Developer Friendly MySpace follows Facebook's lead in becoming a platform, with enhanced advertising features, to boot. |
The Motley Fool
April 20, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Social Networking Diggs Deeper MySpace starts spreading the news, the community-driven way. The portal's transformation from a rave-hopping fiend into a crack reporter is an extreme makeover, but it's also perfectly logical. |
InternetNews
September 1, 2006
Susan Kuchinskas |
Patents Become a 'Social' Problem Social media - photos, blogs, networks and tags - is all about sharing. But social media startups don't want to share their intellectual property. Instead, they're heading to the patent office. |
InternetNews
July 31, 2009 |
New MySpace Mail Goes Global MySpace beginning worldwide roll-out of souped-up e-mail client, hopes to become second-largest Webmail provider. |
InternetNews
December 9, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
MySpace Escalates Social Web's Openness Arms Race On the heels of Facebook's latest moves, MySpace debuts a rebranded data portability effort with Google's support. |
InternetNews
October 2, 2008
Sean Gallagher |
Doubts Loom Over MySpace Music Strategy How much headway can even MySpace make against an entrenched iTunes? |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Steve Rosenbush |
Hey, Come To This Site Often? MySpace's networking portal has a cool factor MSN and Yahoo! can't match. |
Information Today
October 22, 2007
Erik Arnold |
Facebook Catch-Up: MySpace Confirms Developer Platform This week during the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, MySpace confirmed that a developer platform is imminent for the online social networking site. |
InternetNews
November 2, 2007
David Needle |
Google's OpenSocial Gets MySpace Endorsement Facebook rival MySpace throws in with the search leader's social networking API effort. |
BusinessWeek
November 5, 2007
Ante, Grover & Green |
In Search of MyProfits The pressure is on for Murdoch to turn MySpace into a cash machine. |
InternetNews
September 14, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Revolt of The Facebook Elite The social network grew as a site for students at elite colleges. Now Facebook is expanding its registration. Users aren't happy. |
InternetNews
August 11, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Google Deal Bails Out MySpace With Google on board, can MySpace's advertising revenues finally rise with the tide? |
Fast Company
May 1, 2007 |
A Cautionary Tale Rumors of Facebook's refusal to sell to Yahoo set off a chorus of predictions that it would repeat Friendster's fall from grace. |
The Motley Fool
December 13, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
MySpace and Yahoo! Duke It Out Did MySpace beat out Yahoo! for page views? |
PC World
August 25, 2006
Scott Spanbauer |
Internet Tips: Safeguard Your Reputation While Socially Networking Here's how to minimize your exposure to public scrutiny while pursuing your interests and expressing your opinions online. |
InternetNews
August 23, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Confirmed: Microsoft and Facebook Friendship Microsoft is now the exclusive provider of brand advertising and sponsored links on the Facebook social network of more than 9 million registered users. |
BusinessWeek
June 22, 2011
Felix Gillette |
The Rise and Inglorious Fall of Myspace Myspace once promised to redefine music, politics, dating, and pop culture. Rupert Murdoch fell in love with it. Then everything fell apart. |
The Motley Fool
June 16, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
MySpace Has to Facebook the Music If you're MySpace, how do you get your groove back? If you're Facebook, how do you make sure you keep growing? |
The Motley Fool
August 15, 2008
Anders Bylund |
All Hail King Facebook! According to the latest comScore report, Facebook outgrew MySpace way back in April, and its onslaught shows no sign of relenting. |
The Motley Fool
March 7, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Social Networking Keeps It Reel MySpace launches a film and funny-video site to rattle the video-hungry portals. Investors, keep an eye on the traffic that MySpace generates in these new areas. |
InternetNews
December 10, 2009 |
Pioneering Social Network Friendster Finds Buyer A Malaysian online payment firm will purchase Silicon Valley-based Friendster, which boasts over 100 million members worldwide. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2011
Ariel Bleicher |
Social Networking: Friended Bandwidth, digital cameras, and a hunger for connectedness have created a virtual dinner party |
InternetNews
February 12, 2009
David Needle |
Google Amps Up Friend Connect Social Push Social bar for Web sites incorporates basic social features. |
PC Magazine
February 14, 2007 |
Social-Networking Crossover As you might expect, there is a lot of crossover among visitors to social-networking sites. |
InternetNews
November 2, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Social Networks In For a Big 2007? A research firm is predicting that 2007 ad spending on US social networking sites will jump to $865 million from $350 million in 2006 a close to three-fold jump. |
The Motley Fool
April 11, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
News Corp. Plays It Safe Will an ad campaign focused on Internet safety for teens save MySpace from bad PR? Given the here-today, gone-tomorrow elements of social networking, it's likely not going to be an easy tightrope to walk. |
BusinessWeek
September 17, 2007
Jon Fine |
O.K. (Sigh), I'll Join Facebook Facebook's mash-up of friends and business is a bit unnerving. |
PC Magazine
October 10, 2007
Dan Costa |
My Space Is Not Your Space Facebook decided to expand its focus and invite users of all ages to join the fray. Bad idea. The company is killing the originality of its community. |
The Motley Fool
December 13, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Yahoo! Closing Its Facebook? Yahoo! apparently tires of wooing the college-based social networking site. One site could use a sugar daddy, and the other could use the high-profile real estate. The deal still makes sense. Time will tell whether it makes dollars and cents, too. |
InternetNews
October 12, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
MySpace APIs Due Next Week? MySpace's long-expected APIs would let members add third-party apps to their page and make them more dynamic. |
The Motley Fool
May 14, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Google Shakes Up Social Networking Rather than designing a social network, and then adding some useful content (think Facebook or MySpace), Google is approaching networking from the other side. |
InternetNews
October 17, 2007
Sean Gallagher |
Skype Gives MySpace Users A Voice Skype has hooked up with MySpace to provide click-and-talk voice services. But is too much, too soon? |
BusinessWeek
October 23, 2006 |
Ballmer: They Paid How Much For That? Hours before Google finalized its $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube, Microsoft Corp. boss Steven A. Ballmer questioned how the online video service could fetch so much. |
InternetNews
July 10, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
MySpace in Facebook API Wake? Evidence from a page on MySpace's domain indicates the Fox Interactive Media company plans to open its platform to third parties through new APIs. |
InternetNews
February 26, 2010 |
Facebook Lands Patent for News Feed Facebook is awarded patent for news feed activity stream, potentially giving it a monopoly on the technology behind an essential feature on dozens of sites across the social Web. |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Murdoch Magnifies MySpace News Corp.'s head honcho outlines some major initiatives for its hot new property MySpace.com, with plans to keep users on the site longer, thus increasing the value of its online ads. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
November 21, 2006
Stephen Ellis |
Is MySpace's 15 Minutes Over? With News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch mentioning recently that the site could be sold, and advertisers already shunning it as too mainstream, could there be trouble in paradise? |
Inc.
June 2007
Max Chafkin |
How to Kill a Great Idea! Jonathan Abrams created the first online social network and enlisted Silicon Valley's best and brightest to run it. Yet Friendster flamed out spectacularly. What went wrong? |
Search Engine Watch
May 15, 2008
Erik Qualman |
Facebook & MySpace Connect: Good Idea or Social Media Catastrophe? Both MySpace Data Availability and Facebook Connect will soon let users' personal information follow them as they traverse the Web. Besides the implications for personal and business transparency, it looks like Google should worry about social media stealing some of its market share. |
Information Today
March 2008
Thomas Krivak |
Facebook 101: Ten Things You Need to Know About Facebook Nowadays, more businesses and corporate folks are joining Facebook. Advertisers are even turning their attention to this growing market. So what should you know about Facebook? Here are 10 things for starters. |
Wired
March 24, 2008
Kevin Kelleher |
MySpace and Friends Need to Make Money. And Fast. Large social networking sites need to target consumers and combine elements of the social and commercial experience to increase advertisers' success on their pages. |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Yahoo! Gets Schooled What are you waiting for, Yahoo!? If Facebook won't sell, do something relevant in this space. |
