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- Will MySpace show Barack Obama the money?
- Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling "User Generated Politics"Barack Obama on MySpace, the REAL Barack Obama on MySpace, is closing in on 100,000 friends.(SEE MySpace to 175 million friends: It's OUR Space, not yours!)Hillary Clinton officially has 83,715 MySpace friends; Obama bests the front runner...
- Tags: User Generated Politics, Social Web, Social Networking, Presidential Race, MySpace, Barack Obama
- Blog posts 2007-06-02
- YouTube: What MySpace can teach Google about copyright
- Will Google CEO Schmidt's "wait for the tools" banter on media giant Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement legal claim at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference this week be his famous last words?SEE: Google CEO tows Google line at D5Think Schmidts' recent "Big Brother" musings reflect a Google disregard...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, MySpace, Google, Copyright, Content
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- CBS to Google: We want YOUR audience!
- CBS is on a tear, a who needs mainstream media tear that is.After all, what's $280 million, if it brings "15 million active users to an audience hungry media company"?Beauty is in the eye of the future beholder: "Last.fm is one of the most well-established, fastest-growing online community networks out there," according...
- Tags: Google, Music, MySpace, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- MySpace: 179 million times more open than Facebook
- Tom Anderson has 179,564,767 MySpace friends, and I can see them all via his open profile at the number one by far social nework (or social utility, as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg insists) that Anderson co-founded and later sold to News Corp.What about Facebook founder, and still owner, Zuckerberg?Can I get to know him at...
- Tags: Facebook, MySpace
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Why YouTube, MySpace are NOT worried
- Is Facebook really the Anti-MySpace TechCrunch? Is Facebook really YouTube beware Mashable?NO, but Facebook IS a new Google. How so? SPIN, big time!From the New York Times, to the Wall Street Journal, to Fortune magazine AND to blogosphere heavyweights, Facebook has been spinning a whopping Facebook rules tale, that even Rafat Ali now...
- Tags: Facebook, MySpace, Video, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- MySpace to Facebook: WE have the friends, and money
- Is Facebook waging the wrong battles?Facebook: Who needs Yahoo, Craigslist, newspapers? Mark Zuckerberg and company have been floating in conjunction with touted new "game changing" Facebook services in the works.HOW ABOUT MYSPACE?Despite Zuckerberg's incredulous insistence that MySpace is not Facebook's competitive peer, MySpace does indeed reign supreme in the social...
- Tags: Facebook, Metrics, MySpace, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- YouTube, MySpace, Facebook: Is the honeymoon over?
- Is Facebook really the next Google, royalty in waiting?Chad Hurley declared himself and his partner Steve Chen Internet "Kings" upon the YouTube buyout by Google for a royal ransom of $1.65 billion in GOOG.The world has since concurred, literally at least on the Chad front.From the World Economic Forum in...
- Tags: YouTube, MySpace, Google, Facebook
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- MySpace Friends: Rupert Murdoch is NOT the boss!
- Rupert Murdoch is not the boss of me!So believes Eli Pariser, Executive Director, MoveOn.org Political Action, and he wants fellow civic organizers to believe the same.In a joint panel appearance today with MySpace Senior Vice President for Public Affairs, Jeff Berman, at the Personal Democracy Forum underway in New York...
- Tags: YouTube, User-Generated Content, Social Networking, MySpace
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- MySpace polices video copyright: Where is Google YouTube?
- MySpace is the worlds leading lifestyle portal, as it not so modestly describes itself; The lifestyle portal is owned by an "old" media company, News Corp. YouTube is the premier entertainment destination to watch and share videos worldwide, as it not so modestly describes itself; The entertainment destination is owned...
- Tags: Web technology, video, YouTube Inc., copyright-owner, MySpace, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- MySpace wants Photobucket? Where is Google!
- News Corp’s Fox Interactive Media FIM nears deal to buy Photobucket, is the latest M & A industry chatter/rumor, courtesy of an unidentified person, this time cited by The New York Times:Photobucket allows its users to store photos and videos and then easily drop them into their pages on prominent...
- Tags: YouTube, Yahoo, Web 2.0, Wall Street, Video, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Networking, Search, Google Software Applications, Google
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- MySpace to 175 million friends: It's OUR Space, not yours!
- “Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you if you’re young at heart,” so croons Frank Sinatra. Maybe, but the very young are getting their hearts broken at MySpace!It apparently is not an easy task to maintain over 175 million friendships, even if Friend in Chief is founding...
- Tags: Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Social Capital, Self-Promotion, Political Campaign, MySpace, Marketing, Facebook, Barack Obama
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Web 2.0 copycats: Google stumbles, MySpace digs
- Yahoo checked out Google’s ecommerce play Tuesday, Google stumbled upon a roll of the dice Web site recommendation tool yesterday and MySpace digs social news aggregation and voting today. Where is the innovation? Is Web 2.0 one big copycat playground now?What is MySpace News? News Corp. does not even...
- Tags: Yahoo, Web 2.0, MySpace, Google, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- Web 2.0 ages: Poor old media?
- (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction! The Rolling Stones sang it, and Rolling Stone is feeling it, from the blogosphere!Rolling Stone magazine, once a must read for all music and pop-culture nuts is going to establish a social network, via GigaOm. Initial Om Malik reaction: “If this means their...
- Tags: User-Generated Content, Web 2.0, Social Web, MySpace, Marketing
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- Google vs. MySpace: Is YouTube doomed?
- Jeff Jarvis ordained $150 billion market cap Google “God,” last week, no joke. In January, he publicly thanked YouTube, for “changing the world and society,” in the guise of a Chad Hurley interview at the Davos World Economic Forum.Is the Google-YouTube Kool Aid spiked?Apparently not: “Did Murdoch just KO Google?”...
- Tags: MySpace, Google Inc., YouTube Inc., video, Web
- Blog posts 2007-03-26
- John Edwards: MySpace trumps Ning, big time!
- Edition number 29 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Ning is proving a very unsocial place for John Edwards. The 60 second Ning John Edwards “Social Network” set-up by the Edwards campaign looks like it is a 60 second...
- Tags: Amateur Content, Craigslist, Government, John Edwards, Marketing, Media, Metrics, MySpace, Self-Promotion, Social Capital, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, User Generated Politics
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Web 2.0: Are Cisco, News Corp., Viacom, Gannett really clueless?
- In the Web 2.0 social networking “users are in control” world, mega corporations must be feeling we’re damned if we do, damned if we don’t! I polled a few weeks back “Poor Google?,” noting a string of setbacks and a underwhelming 2007 beginning. Google, of course, is “everyone’s favorite...
- Tags: Newspapers, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Print, Video, YouTube, Content, User-Generated Content, MySpace, Social Web, Culture, Google, Enterprise, Web 2.0, Usability, Media
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Obama trouncing Clinton in MySpace race
- Edition number 28 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”MySpace is a hotly contested virtual battleground in “User Generated Politics” presidential campaign 2008. Barack Obama is en route to a landslide victory over Hillary Clinton in the MySpace friends...
- Tags: User Generated Politics, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Social Web, Amateur Content, MySpace, Culture, Government, Web 2.0, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, Social Software, Barack Obama
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Web 2.0 Social Networks: Cool but marginal and unprofitable?
- Has Cisco made the RIGHT bet on Social Networks?Not according to Om Malik who offers a "News flash" for Cisco: This social software thing – it is too marginal, doesn’t make money and can’t make you cool.Really? Apparently Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. CEO and proud corporate owner of MySpace,...
- Tags: Advertising, Amateur Content, Business Models, Media, MySpace, ROI, Search, Search Advertising, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-03-03
- Beer fuels social networking: MingleNow 'Clinks' Anheuser-Busch
- Blue Lithium ad serving company touts it is “reinventing the ad network.” Starting now, it also seeks to reenergize the social network, in collaboration with Anheuser-Busch. Blue Lithium Labs spearheaded the launch of MingleNow, an online/offline social network “dedicated to connecting users to their favorite clubs and bars and...
- Tags: Social Software, ROI, Social Networking, ecommerce, Self-Promotion, Marketing, Social Web, MySpace, User-Generated Content, Culture, Search, Advertising, Local, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Web 2.0 one minute Social Network: Does size matter?
- “If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?” the old saying asks.I ASK: If you create your own social network and no one joins, do you exist?Web 2.0 turnkey empowerment platforms lure with visions of instant social nirvana, for free and...
- Tags: Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Facebook, Social Web, Amateur Content, MySpace, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
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