MySpace may announce a buyer as soon as this week, if any of the rumors traveling across the blogosphere have any truth to them.
How A Possible Buyer For MySpace May Help Facebook
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WATCH: College Humor Animates A Facebook Roast
College Humor created an animated roast of Facebook with voiceovers by Penn Jillette, Gilbert Gottfried and Lisa Lampanelli.
VOTE: Which Dies First, Friendster Or MySpace?
Friendster’s very real request that everyone back up their profiles locally sharply contrasts a hoax viral message reposting on Facebook earlier this year about space supposedly running out. This begs the question about the long-term prognosis for the predecessor site — please share your opinion in our poll.
Why Germans Prefer Facebook Over Studiverzeichnis
Facebook’s continued growth in Germany at the expense of Studiverzeichnis, or StudiVZ, looks a lot like how MySpace has been declining.
REPORT: Facebook Branding Beats Twitter
Facebook’s brand effectiveness outranks all other social media’s branding efforts, according Brand Keys’ Customer Loyalty Index.
Unstoppable Facebook Creates Brave New World Of Opportunity
If there is to be a time in Facebook’s history when it will be remembered at its prime, 2011 may turn out to be it.
MySpace Now Lets Users Post To Facebook
MySpace seems to be adopting the old adage of “keep your friends close but your enemies closer” when it comes to relations with its social networking rival Facebook. Or perhaps it’s more a matter of “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em”.
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How Quora Makes Facebook Look Like MySpace And Google
Remember when MySpace was crashing all the time and the stupid Pac Man game was showing up because the site was “overloaded” with traffic? Even if you weren’t a MySpace user back then, all you need to know is the frequency of MySpace going down due to technical issues was one of the main reasons Facebook was so successful. Facebook has been able to keep the site up despite the rapid growth in traffic, however with the company’s new questions product, Facebook doesn’t look as much like an original technological innovator.
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Baby Boomers Renew Their Connections With Facebook
Almost half of the online Baby Boomer generation (born between 1946 and 1964) update their Facebook or other social networks regularly. According to eMarketer Online senior Analyst Lisa E. Philips, “About 47% of online boomers maintain a profile on at least one social network, according to several sources. Their contacts include family, friends and co-workers of all ages.” The report goes on to discuss Boomers’ favorite networks and methods of buying online. Of the networks included as “social networks” in the study, 73% of the group maintained a Facebook profile.
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Report: Facebook Ad Revenue To Surpass MySpace Next Year
A new report released from eMarketer today, states that Facebook “will surpass its former rival, MySpace, in ad revenues in 2010, when marketers worldwide will spend $605 million on Facebook versus $385 million on MySpace”. It’s not a surprising shift considering Facebook’s traffic has been dominating MySpace for over a year now. It appears that advertisers are finally catching up though.
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