Facebook’s redesign continues to be a hit with U.S. users
The average U.S. social network user apparently wants to read feeds of photos, links, status updates, videos and comments on Facebook, according to the latest statistics from Compete. The firm’s newly-released study of U.S. web traffic to social networks in January is the latest vindication… Continue Reading
Roundup: Google sees results in Washington, sex offenders out of MySpace, Motorola’s big loss and more
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Google is making friends in Washington — After Microsoft and AT&T’s lobbying power killed its Yahoo search deal, Google has proven to be the quick study in politics and now seems to have friends in high places…the highest places, the White House. The… Continue Reading
Fuego Nation launches its private beta for rich media social network
Fuego Nation is launching a private beta of a new kind of social network today.
That may not seem like a very downturn kind of thing to do, and Brogan Keane, founder and chief executive, acknowledges it’s going to be tough. But Keane also believes he… Continue Reading
MySpace and Wall Street Journal contest to make World Economic Forum in Davos “a place for friends”?
MySpace has joined forces with the Wall Street Journal for “MySpace Journal,” a competition to send one lucky MySpace user to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The winner will be a “special correspondent” on behalf of the entire MySpace community and get to… Continue Reading
CES: MySpace wants to friend your television, but do you?
Today, at the CES consumer electronics conference in Las Vegas, Toshiba introduced its plans for offering “connected” television — and social network MySpace is going along for this ride. In partnership with a variety of web sites, including Yahoo, the electronics manufacturer is introducing “TV… Continue Reading
Facebook’s traffic growth leaving rivals in the dust
Facebook has grown to 150 million users this month, more than half of whom use the site every day, according to company chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. Other social networks, like MySpace, Friendster, hi5, Bebo and Orkut, have also become popular around the world over the… Continue Reading
Facebook: The new battleground for popstars? Lily Allen takes on Katy Perry
British singer/songwriter Lily Allen has revived a feud with U.S. pop star Katy Perry (of “I Kissed a Girl” song fame), threatening to post Perry’s phone number on Facebook should Perry make any more disparaging comments about her. Isn’t that the sort of drama that… Continue Reading
Warner, EMI, Universal force MySpace (and Facebook?) to remove Project Playlist
Major music labels, including Warner, EMI and Universal Music Group, have been in litigation against online music company Project Playlist since this spring. They accuse the startup of not honoring its pledge to keep copyright-infringing music off its service. The latest twist: Today, MySpace has… Continue Reading
AOL using AIM chat to boost Bebo, challenge Meebo
AOL is working on a new initiative to make its instant message service, AIM, a central social feature to any web site, well-placed sources tell me. Starting next year, a user on a social network might use AIM to create an IM chat list from… Continue Reading
Meebo: IM friends with your MySpace, Facebook friends
Ever wanted to instant-message with all of your friends, across social networks? Starting today, you can chat with your friends on MySpace and Facebook, through online IM aggregator Meebo. The way it works is that you sign in to Meebo’s home site using your identity… Continue Reading
Twitter disses Nasza Klasa (Poland’s social network)
Twitter was at the center of a stink today when Google announced that it was integrating the micro-messaging service into its Friend Connection service. This led to a flurry of questions in the tech blogosphere as to why Twitter was integrating with Google and no… Continue Reading
MySpace announces Top 8 of 2008 awards, vampires win
Hold onto your trendy fedora hats, MySpace just released its “Top 8 of 2008″ awards, presumably because Top 10 lists are just so 2007. The lists include the top eight site searches in the categories of music, film, comedy, technology and video. Things I didn’t… Continue Reading
Roundup: Yahoo flushes its “poison pill,” Crain’s goes out of print, WordPress goes 2.7 and more
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Yahoo flushes its “poison pill” — One of the reasons Microsoft decided not to go hostile in its bid to buy Yahoo was that the company had a so-called “poison pill” plan in place in which hundreds of millions of dollars would have… Continue Reading
Confused yet? MySpace updates data-sharing service, fighting Facebook (and Google)
MySpace’ web-wide identity service is announcing that it will get some new features soon. This is the latest attack in a two-and-a-half-sided battle the company is fighting with rival Facebook and frenemy Google.
MySpace hopes its service will eventually make it a central social hub for… Continue Reading
Hand over all your Facebook photos to Obama, please
Applying to a position in Obama’s cabinet and administration is tougher than climbing Mt. Everest while performing open-heart surgery. But even after a candidate’s passed the intense vetting process, it doesn’t mean they automatically stay out of trouble, as we’ve just seen with head speechwriter… Continue Reading
Facebook to Google: my Connect is bigger than yours
Facebook and Google have both opened services to the public today that intend to let you easily access any web site using versions of your pre-existing online identity. They both intend to help you find friends on other web sites to interact with, thereby making… Continue Reading
Google Friend Connect tries to sneak up on Facebook Connect (again)
Social network Facebook has been slowly rolling out its new service, Connect, over the last few months. The service lets users sign in to other sites using their Facebook identities, find Facebook friends on those sites and share information from those sites with the rest… Continue Reading
MySpace aims to bring mobile videos to the masses
Social network MySpace is launching a new worldwide service that will let its users watch videos on its mobile site from their phones. Mobile video has not been a smashing consumer success. But MySpace’s mobile site (m.myspace.com) gets more than 10 million monthly unique visitors… Continue Reading
Lindsay Lohan can’t poke you on Facebook, airs grievances on MySpace
Lindsay Lohan, the Hollywood actress and drama magnet, is having yet another painful identity crisis — of the Facebook kind. Her Facebook account has been temporarily disabled, and she ironically chose to rant about the traumatizing experience on her MySpace blog.
Her stream-of-unconsciousness style post, titled… Continue Reading
Confirmed: Courtney Holt to be new MySpace Music CEO
Negotiations must have taken awhile, but music industry veteran Courtney Holt is now officially the new chief executive of MySpace Music. Word leaked out about Holt’s interest in the job earlier month. MySpace Music, meanwhile, went ahead and launched at the end of September after… Continue Reading