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Despite impressive growth from Facebook during the past year, News Corp.'s MySpace continues to dominate the social networking arena in the U.S., according to Nielsen//NetRatings. By Alex Woodson, The ...
MySpace has surrendered to the power of Facebook, and users can now send their shared content on MySpace out to Facebook (and Twitter) with just one click. The functionality allows you to push photos, ...
With talk of Rupert Murdoch attempting to 'offload' MySpace to Yahoo in return for a 25% stake in the company, there's inevitably been another round of discussion in the tech media comparing Facebook ...
UPDATE: A paper by Danah Boyd also explores the "friendship: issue at social networking sites: “'Are you my friend? Yes or no?' This question, while fundamentally odd, is a key component of social ...
While the battle may have been won some time ago, MySpace seems to be calling “uncle” in its competition with Facebook. On Thursday, MySpace unveiled what the company is calling a “Mashup with ...
The Facebook-versus-MySpace question has never been an important one for me. As much as I dislike digital dependency, Facebook is a necessity. How else would I find out who got dumped or who got drunk ...
Do you Facebook or MySpace? Increasingly, membership in one social network does not necessarily rule out the appeal of belonging to the other. Of course, each company wants you to visit their site ...
It was painful, poignant even, to read that MySpace has a new slogan: -- "Discover and be Discovered" -- which it unveiled to employees last week. I took it as though the once-mighty social network ...
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been feeling an awful lot of “meh” this week. First came the launch of Facebook’s non-e-mail e-mail service — color me indifferent — and then the day we’ll “never ...
Is MySpace the next Friendster? The next who? Exactly. Once a social network starts to lose its lustre in comparison with a younger, fresher rival, it's on a slippery slope to obscurity. What MySpace ...
At long last, the Comscore year-end numbers for the major social networks are available. The numbers indicate Facebook, already the worldwide leader, is on track to overtake MySpace for unique ...