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Facebook pulls a MySpace, adds “Listen” button to all artist...

The allure of MySpace may be long gone, but that hasn’t stopped Facebook from stealing a little musical inspiration from the former place for friends. Facebook today made music a much bigger part of the social networking experience [...]

Posted On : Apr, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

A Big Fail for FB: Facebook is the New MySpace

It will be very interesting to see what takes the place of Facebook after its latest switch-a-roo. Is Pinterest going to overtake it? Will Google Plus become dominant? Or something else? The new and bulky, awkward timeline design [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2012 | Comments : 0

Google+ Lags Far Behind Facebook, Twitter and MySpace in Lat...

According to ComScore, users spent an average of just 3.3 minutes on Google+ in the month of January, a decline from its recent figures and a tiny sliver of Facebook’s total. On average, users spent 5.1 minutes on Google+ in Novembe [...]

Posted On : Feb, 29 2012 | Comments : 0

MySpace Reboots Today With Focus On Music, Facebook Integrat...

Months after it was purchased by online ad firm Specific Media at a fire sale price, MySpace is finally getting a makeover. The focus, as the new owners promised, is on music and includes full Facebook integration, a final admission [...]

Posted On : Dec, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Exclusive: MySpace Launches New Music Player, Search Functio...

After teasing a few key advertisers with a short presentation in September, MySpace has debuted its first major product offering under new owners Specific Media. The new MySpace music player launches today with enhanced music recommendati [...]

Posted On : Dec, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

DIY Update: R.I.P. MySpace, Long Live Facebook

MySpace is dead. Oh, it’s still out there, but isn’t worth your band's precious time anymore. If it wasn’t clear its downfall was coming when sold to News Corp., then it should have been clear when sold to ad network [...]

Posted On : Oct, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

MySpace admits defeat to Facebook

MySpace is to go a different direction as Facebook’s dominance of social network can no longer be ignored. MySpace have finished trying to re-establish their social network basis surrendering to their one time rival Facebook, wit [...]

Posted On : Sep, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

FotoMedia sues Facebook, MySpace over photo sharing patents

FotoMedia Technologies LLC, a Portsmouth, N.H., patent holding company focused on photo sharing technologies, has filed patent infringement suits against Facebook and MySpace, among others, according to a release. The new round of suit [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Fab Is To Groupon What Facebook Is To MySpace

Last February, Jason Goldberg and Bradford Shellhammer reached an impasse. Their one-year old gay social networking site, Fabulis, was losing steam. The site had attracted 50,000 members in its first three months, only to plateau nine mon [...]

Posted On : Sep, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Another Kick in the Face for MySpace: Facebook Moves Into th...

When Facebook nudged MySpace out as the social-media leader, it left the latter site with one strong suit: music. Indeed, as recently as this week, Al Dejewski, MySpace's senior vice president of global marketing, informed AdAge that [...]

Posted On : Aug, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Facebook, Myspace Increase Teen Substance Abuse Risk

Substance abuse is a bigger problem for adolescents who daily spend time on social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace, as 70% of American adolescents say they do, according to a survey released Aug. 24 by the National Center on [...]

Posted On : Aug, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

The Wages Of Spam: ‘Spam King’ Who Hit Facebook, MySpace May...

A famed spammer’s long career in the business looks like it’s coming to a close, and could end with a prison sentence. Sanford Wallace—long ago dubbed “Spamford” Wallace—has been the bane of social netw [...]

Posted On : Aug, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Is Facebook Dying like MySpace?

There was a time when "Tom" was everyone's friend. This was at a point after Friendster had been on the scene for a while but never caught on. Then, suddenly, Myspace was everywhere. Companies appended their Myspace page to [...]

Posted On : Aug, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Myspace's Tom Anderson endorses a healthy Google + vs. Faceb...

Remember Tom? You should, he was your first friend on MySpace. He left the social media fossil back in 2009, but his departure from MySpace wasn't the end of his presence online. In a recent viral video, Rooster Teeth (the brilliant m [...]