Posts Tagged ‘myspace’

 

Can Justin Timberlake Bring the Sexy Back to MySpace?

Monday, July 4th, 2011

This week, it was announced that social media bomb MySpace has been sold for $35 million, a mere fraction of the $580 million invested in the online networking site. While it may not have come as a big surprise to many, it’s certainly fascinating to reminisce about the time MySpace was king before competing for [...]

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Social Media and Google Collaborate for Real-Time Search Results

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Google has acquired deals with MySpace and Facebook allowing real-time updates posted by publicly-posting users to be part of a real-time index on Google. Recently Twitter signed a similar deal with the search giant, and the two new partnerships are reported to be going live on Google throughout all English language domains starting this week. What [...]

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MySpace Slows Down

Monday, May 4th, 2009

There are people who use MySpace, Facebook, and those who feel compelled to use both social networking sites. MySpace has the title of the country’s leading social networking service, yet has been slowly losing its users. There is a recent trend showing some users gravitating to other social media networks, notably Facebook. According to ComScore, [...]

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MySpace & MTV join Google’s YouTube in video advertising

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Google’s YouTube has already begun to utilize its popular online public video sharing site to display advertising targeted to the type of video chosen by the viewer, and now social network MySpace is set to follow suit in this online video advertising endeavor. There is much controversy as to this practice being an infringement of [...]

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Microsoft Live Search for Facebook

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Microsoft’s initial investment in the social networking website Facebook gave many the impression that live search would be integrated into the site. This was assumed for a variety of reasons, including the highly publicized deal with Google and Facebook social network competitor Myspace.  Myspace and all of Facebook’s other social network competitors all have web search [...]

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