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MySpace has shed 40% of its staff, closed many of its international offices and publicly given up trying to match Facebook in the race to become the world's biggest social network. (MySpace has more than 100 million regular users, Facebook more than 300 million.) A move by MySpace and other News Corp digital businesses into the biggest new office development in Los Angeles was scrapped -- after the $350m, 12-year lease had been signed -- leaving the company paying more than $1m a month for an empty building. The number of people using the site has also dropped precipitously this year: MySpace's share of the social networking market has tumbled from 66 per cent a year ago to 30%, according to the online research company Hitwise. The situation is so dire that MySpace recently revealed that it had failed to attract enough online traffic to meet targets set in its advertising deal with Google and as a result would lose $100m this year. An acquisition that had initially covered Murdoch in glory and offered so much promise was becoming an embarrassment to the News Corp chairman and a liability for his company.
You can point fingers at everyone from Rupert Murdoch to MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe. Former executives recite a litany of strategic errors while spreading blame liberally around. But the real lesson here seems a lot simpler. MySpace always had a cheesy feel. Facebook offered a better user experience, and for the fundamentally fickle Internet masses, that's all it took.
With all the angst about broken newspaper business models and the threat the Internet poses to all aspects of the traditional entertainment industry, we often forget that it's no easier for the upstarts to hold onto whatever ground they've gathered than it is for the dinosaurs to avoid extinction. Today, every empire is built on shifting sand. Yesterday's Titan is tomorrow's Ozymandias. Facebook could melt away as easily as MySpace, or Friendster. And not just because Facebook executives made some missteps. But because somebody else came up with something a little better.
The point that traditional media barons should be mulling is that anything that makes the user experience worse -- like paywalls blocking formerly freely accessible content -- is the surest-fire way to send the Internet hordes surging in the other direction. Their options are unlimited.MySpace has shed 40% of its staff, closed many of its international offices and... more
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Whether you like it or not, Facebook has more than doubled Myspace in size in the last year. Many websites sponsor both sites, but it is becoming apparent who is priority these days. Some phones come with an application all setup for Facebook and many accounts are closing on Myspace. Members are "Making the switch", which has been an almost too common subject line in Myspace friend bulletins, messages and status updates. Are you "making the switch" or is this just a boom of people addicted to social networking engines that just have to have their status updates?
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/22/facebook-now-nearly-twice-the-size-of-myspace-worldwide/Whether you like it or not, Facebook has more than doubled Myspace in size in the last... more
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Facebook has to deal with too many chatty friends.
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For more SuperNews! go to http://current.com/supernews/Facebook has to deal with too many chatty friends.
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Myspace stalks his ex-girlfriend on Myspace.
From SuperNews! an animated sketch comedy series airing on Current TV every Friday night at 10p/9c.
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For more SuperNews! go to www.current.com/supernewsMyspace stalks his ex-girlfriend on Myspace.
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Facebook and the guys remove Mr. Furley as their friend after he embarrasses them.
From SuperNews! an animated sketch comedy series airing on Current TV every Friday night at 10 PM ET/PT.
So set your DVRs and TIVOs. Like... now.
For more SuperNews! go to www.current.com/supernewsFacebook and the guys remove Mr. Furley as their friend after he embarrasses them.... more
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Friendster, Facebook and Myspace are three bachelor roommates living in an apartment in Santa Monica, CA.
From: "SuperNews!" An animated sketch comedy series airing on Current TV.
Every Friday night at 10 PM ET/PT.
So set your DVRs and TIVOs. Like... now.
For more SuperNews! go to www.current.com/supernewsFriendster, Facebook and Myspace are three bachelor roommates living in an apartment... more
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"Friendster is at once a thriving success and a robot-ruled ghost planet." Great Slate article on how Friendster has been "dead" in the US since, oh, somewhere in 2006, but is still uber-popular in Asia and attracts millions of unique visitors every month. Personally I don't think I've logged on since 2005."Friendster is at once a thriving success and a robot-ruled ghost planet."... more
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The staggering potential of social networking to draw traffic to a Web site cannot be underestimated. The “viral” nature - the ability to start with a small user base and spread to the users’ friends - is a vital component.The staggering potential of social networking to draw traffic to a Web site cannot be... more
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In the name of science, SuperNews producer Josh Faure-Brac has decided to attempt the unthinkable and go without access to the internet for 24 hours. Is this sort of reckless abandon still possible or safe? Or funny? Watch SuperNews do the internet like never before and find out whether Josh has what it takes to survive offline in this Super Block.In the name of science, SuperNews producer Josh Faure-Brac has decided to attempt the... more
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Another Google executive has jumped ship for the world of social networking, but this time it's Friendster, not Facebook.
Richard Kimber, former regional managing director of South Asia at Google, has joined Friendster as its new CEO, and with Kimber comes $20 million in funding from IDG Ventures, the company announced Tuesday.
While at Google Kimber opened offices in Singapore and Auckland and expand the search engine company's presence in Australia and South Korea, Friendster said. Prior to joining Google, Kimber was the chief executive of FirstDirect Bank in the UK and HSBC Internet Payment in the states.
Kimber succeeds Kent Lindstrom, who has served as Friendster's CEO for 2.5 years. Friendster said Lindstrom will remain at the company to focus on "key operations" but did not elaborate on what that might entail.
The additional funds, meanwhile, will be used to extend Friendster's presence in the Asia Pacific region, where Friendster is currently the number one social networking site.
IDG's four institutional investors – Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, and Founders Fund – have also invested in Friendster. IDG's general partner, Butch Reddy, will also join Friendster's board.
Russ Siegelman, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and chairman of Friendster's board, said the company will use the additional $20 million for "new features, new offerings, localization and marketing."
Another Google executive has jumped ship for the world of social networking, but this... more
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Think social networking sites are fun and useful? See what happens when things get a little out of control for one social networker who might just be over the whole social network thing. Let the social networking wars begin!Think social networking sites are fun and useful? See what happens when things get a... more
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Tired of phony online friends? Make enemies instead. Riding on the popularity of social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, new Web sites are poking fun at online friendships that connect you to the people you like, by turning attention to the ones you don't.Tired of phony online friends? Make enemies instead. Riding on the popularity of... more
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Maddox Jolie Pitt is starting an internet flame war with Suri Cruise on his FriendSpaceBook page. Watch out Hollywood, there's a new bad boy in town, and he's 3. Here's an excerpt from his profile: "You know who the f*ck I am. Used to be a poor orphan living in a Cambodian tiger cage and now I'm kickin' it in a phat Beverly Hills mansion with two parents who happen to be the sexiest man and woman alive. Oh, and they're rich as sh*t. Which means I'm rich as sh*t. Yeah, I really hit the lottery man. My life is amazing. But I look around the Hollywood landscape and see all these other celebrity children thinking they're the t*ts. Wrong. I'm the t*ts." Oh Maddox...
Maddox Jolie Pitt is starting an internet flame war with Suri Cruise on his... more
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