If you haven’t already seen it, your Facebook posts might be showing up in Google search results around the web. The search engine honcho has indeed begun to index Facebook content and has already been indexing information from MySpace and Twitter. Continue Reading…
It had been rumored for some time that Facebook Connect was coming to MySpace. However that was not confirmed until a few days ago when it became fill integration. Once deemed arch enemies, MySpace has now integrated Facebook Connect into its Fan Video service. This brings the relationship between both social networking sites to a whole new level. Continue Reading…
The Super Bowl is the most watched sporting event in America. Fans pay almost as much attention to the commercials as they do the game. Companies spend millions of dollars for a 30 second spot during the game, but this year, for the first time in 23 years, Pepsi will not run a Super Bowl ad. Continue Reading…
I don’t want to write MySpace off too quick, but it seems that the social network is lagging behind Facebook a bit these days. That said, with a new CEO at the helm, they are trying innovation including adding a bunch of features that will bring users back to the site more often. Continue Reading…
Although the condition of MySpace is not as dire as many are making it out to be, its clear that the once king of the social networks is wearing a tarnished crown (or now crown at all) as the popularity of its arch rival Facebook continues to grow. Continue Reading…
An experiment by MIT involving social media has been almost as revealing as what others can learn about you from an online social media site. Many people sign on to the social media sites in order to reconnect with old friends, new friends, and family members but many may fail to understand just what a profile on sites like MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter may reveal to those we know and those we don’t. Continue Reading…
It is great fun to take a look at how now popular web 2.0 sites used to look like years ago, when they were just launched.
Now, let’s try to imagine how those sites will look 10 years from now:
[based on this article, please note some images on the old screenshots were not cached and are thus missing]
Facebook now:
Facebook then (2004):
Visit the MySpace homepage of any teenager in or with access to, western culture, and you will surely find it as “decorated” as said teenager’s own bedroom. As much as Facebook tries to tout itself as the next big thing, it appears MySpace is hanging in there for the long haul. Some naysayers protest MySpace is just about music, and that it, like many other Internet trends before it, will soon go the way of AOL chat. MySpace will inevitably find itself obsolete, they will have you believe. Continue Reading…
To lackluster fanfare, facebook users were given the option to claim a new vanity URL for their profiles at 12:01 a.m. EDT. Rumors had been circulating for weeks about the idea of Facebook allowing celebrities, organizations, and bands to select special vanity URLs to replace the random set of numbers that had been used since the site’s inception. The consensus was that even if Facebook made vanity URLs available to the general public, that the service would come at a cost as part of the drive to monetize the site. Roughly a week ago the word was put out that not only would these public figures and institutions be able to secure customized addresses, but so would everyone else- for free.
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Not long ago MySpace was the first and the only globally popular social network. Since then it’s had plenty of competitors, Facebook being the most successful of them. Continue Reading…
