Search Results for 'Social'

Social TV: Is Myspace Too Late Again?

Aside from rousing praise at CES by co-owner Justin Timberlake, Myspace isn't getting much love these days — even from big boss Rupert Murdoch, who admits to a giant foul-up in how News Corp. has managed the company. But the [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

Myspace seeks social spike

Myspace’s new music player has unmatched access to signed and unsigned artists who need a platform to get their music out, according to Chris Vanderhook, the company’s COO, writes Maria Stadtmueller. “The new player i [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

MySpace out of top ten most visited social networks

Discovery engine Stumble Upon leapfrogged MySpace to claim tenth place based on web traffic data from November, pushing MySpace down to eleventh. All the other top ten sites in the category maintained their positions from October but YouT [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Social Hygiene, from Myspace to Morgan Freeman

A few years ago, when joining Facebook was still as exclusive as pledging a fraternity and Myspace was de rigeur, the profile picture was worth a thousand words. It said so much about who one believed him- or herself to be, and marked [...]

Posted On : Jul, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Now Even Music Industry Ignoring MySpace Hot social startup...

Further evidence that MySpace is rapidly drifting out of relevance: It’s even being abandoned by services catering to music acts, which were among the site’s early adopters and once-core traffic creators. The latest nail [...]

Posted On : Apr, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

MySpace piloting social networking management tools

MySpace is set to hand over its financial information to interested buyers this week as owners News Corp look to offload the flagging website, according to AllThingsD. Although quite a number of parties have expressed an interest in [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Myspace CEO believes in social network

Myspace has a new look and attitude. But it may not be enough to save the onetime king of social networking, which has been dethroned by Facebook and faces competition from other sites, too. Its CEO, Mike Jones, thinks so — even am [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

State of the Social (SotS) Google, Yahoo, MySpace, Twitter a...

2011 seems to be shaping as a year that will make or break some social media companies. In my opinion we will see the further entrenchment of niche Software as a Service (SaaS) companies and some of our past favourites go the way of the [...]

Posted On : Jan, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

MySpace New CEO: Social Network’s Uphill Battle

Recently we have brought you the news that MySpace and Facebook were having a mashup where the Facebook connect button had been added across the MySpace website. To me that was when MySpace officially gave up. MySpace went from being som [...]

Posted On : Nov, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Facebook or MySpace? Social networking sites compete for act...

The two most popular social community sites are Facebook and Myspace. Even though Myspace and Facebook both launched at about the same time, Myspace noticeably became more popular than Facebook. Myspace launched to everyone w [...]

Posted On : Oct, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

'The Social Network' takes over MySpace

One of the unique ways the movie studio is promoting The Social Network, the film that portrays the founding of Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg, is to reach out to Facebook rival MySpace. MySpace, which pioneered social networking sites [...]

Posted On : Sep, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

‘Social Network’ buys ad space on MySpace, not Facebook

With “The Social Network” unable to forge a marketing partnership with the website at the center of its story — Facebook — Sony is promoting the pic on MySpace. It’s been no secret that Facebook founder Mark [...]

Posted On : Sep, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

MySpace launches social calendar function with ads

MySpace is trying to get on your social calendar — or at least take over how you manage it. The social networking site, in the midst of an overhaul to regain its lost mojo, is rolling out a service Thursday that blends nearly 1 mil [...]

Posted On : Apr, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Ex-MySpace Execs New Social Network “Gravity” Launches To Th...

Three MySpace execs left the company in 2009 to launch their own startup, a new social network now called Gravity. Today it is available to the public. While on face value, Gravity might appear to be just another social network, accordin [...]