ComScore’s June US numbers: Facebook still gaining on MySpace while blog platforms, news aggregators, niche social networks also grow
Facebook gained nearly two million new US users from May to June of this year, while MySpace lost about a million, according to the latest data from comScore. MySpace is still nearly twice the size, though, at 72.8 million national users versus Facebook’s 37.4 million…. Continue Reading
Hearst buys Kaboodle, a social shopping site
Hearst Corp., the large media organization that owns the San Francisco Chronicle and sundry magazines, said it will acquire Kaboodle, a site that lets people bookmark items they find while surfing the Web, and then recommend and share them with other people.
The price was undisclosed…. Continue Reading
Roundup: Facebook a major news company, Google’s latest, Imbee and more
Here’s the latest action:
Facebook to be biggest news publisher — Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of social networking site Facebook, suggests Facebook may soon become one of the largest news publishers around — thanks to Facebook’s newsfeed feature, which essentially creates mini articles about members based on… Continue Reading