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Thursday, March 11, 2010
After Owen Van Natta’s precipitous departure last month, the two remaining members of MySpace’s ruling triumvirate have announced a major relaunch for the ailing social network. Following predictably poor Nielsen figures for MySpace in January – it now trails Facebook in the US by a factor of 1:2 – co-presidents Mike Jones and Jason Hirschorn plan a rapid roll-out of new content-discovery and sharing features, which they hope will lure back users and reverse the site’s continuing decline. Welcome to eModeration's round-up of all that is intriguing, alarming or odd in the world of social media, compiled by Kate Williams.
 
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The latest series initially gave each of its 24 finalists individual Facebook, Twitter and MySpace accounts – but on Thursday they hastily pulled the plug on that strategy. Brands are blinking at the huge possibilities offered by this exploding sector, with its apparently inbuilt virality and self-perpetuating content – but many are rightly hesitating over how to get involved. "The Meanwhile, Massively Welcome to eModeration's round-up of all that is intriguing, alarming or odd in the world of social media, compiled by Kate Williams. For more social media snippets, follow her on
 
Monday, March 1, 2010
Meanwhile a commotion kicked off over the watering-down of Apple’s sauce : last week many apps containing what the company described as ‘overtly sexual content’ were axed without warning. And while it’s hard to overheat on behalf of porn–pedlars, Apple’s fumblings on this matter highlighted its somewhat capricious stance towards developers in general, and to 'adult' content in particular. Welcome to eModeration's round-up of all that is intriguing, alarming or odd in the world of social media, compiled by Kate Williams. For more social media snippets, follow her on @emodkate
 

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ProtectTheHuman.com is a social platform that asks users to carry out a range of online actions in support of Amnesty’s campaigns, and to upload video and photos and bookmark content from all over the Web. This involved an audit, mapping and optimisation exercise of all official (Amnesty-run) and supporter-run groups and pages on Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Bebo and blogs. Made by Many has worked with Amnesty UK since January ‘08, and helped them design and build ProtectTheHuman.com - their digital activism community. You can read more about it
Myspace Music Australia has launched. Kevin Rudd’s MySpace Music Playlist My Happiness’ by Powderfinger Kevvie On MySpace Music Malcolm Turnbull’s MySpace Music Playlist ‘Chan MySpace is a vital It socializes the find-filter-forward mechanism a lot better, apparently. Find cool music, filter through it (list friends), and then forward on.
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It is the insight into the attitudes to branded content, pages and applications that is, however, most interesting from a social media marketing perspective. Rather than a brand trying to engage people separately in Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and every other social network and forum site, it is better to use these as gateways to somewhere else. Tags: Matt Rhodes Online communities Social Media Social Research released by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) in the UK suggests that people are growing increasingly tired of requests to join brand pages or install brand applications in Facebook and other social networks .
Facebook , MySpace , Twitter , LinkedIn and Ning are ranked 4th, 11th, 25th, 89th and 154th among all websites in the world, respectively. From a business point of view, MySpace has become primarily a niche site for the music industry. If Facebook succeeds, even partially, our influence and the content we post on Facebook will affect Facebook search results. The rapid growth of Facebook and Twitter has created lots of excitement. Alexa ranks the world’s most popular websites.
It analyzes and reports on daily trends within the blogosphere. BoardTracker – A useful tool for scanning and tracking within forums. Commentful – This service watches comments/follow-ups on Blog posts and similar content such as Flickr or Digg. FriendFeed Search – Scans all FriendFeed activity. Google Alerts –Daily or real-time alerts emailed to you whenever a specific keyword (chosen by you) is mentioned. HowSociable? – A simple way for you to begin measuring your brand’s visibility on the social web. Icerocket – Searches a variety of online
common debate among those working in marketing and social media is between engaging people on your own domain - in an online community that you build and manage yourself - and engaging people where they are - out in social networks like Facebook and MySpace or on YouTube, external blogs or forums. Posting videos or content, joining discussions or finding where people are. Image by MattRhodes via Flickr A
The article in Slate stresses the high cost of maintaining Youtube, which is losing half a billion dollars a year, the unwillingness of advertisers to be seen amongst low quality user-generated content. what we are already paying to our ISP’s, ans means of financing such peer to peer infrastructures which can bypass proprietary platforms for distribution of user content via centralized platforms. With Adam Arvidsson, I have outlined on several occasions the Crisis of Value facing capitalism, because the exponential rise in use value production (value produced by ourselves, outside of a market setting), is outpacing the linear capability of monetizing them.
The aim of this guide is to arm brands and agencies with the knowledge they need to deal with user-generated content on social network pages. We’ve been moderating an increasing number of Facebook, Bebo, MySpace and YouTube pages and channels on behalf of agencies and brands, and, to be honest, it’s not as simple as it might at first appear. To start with, social networks (and we deal in our white paper with the ‘big four’: MySpace, After what feels like an inordinately long labour (mostly because Facebook kept on changing), we’re proud to give birth to our latest white paper: ‘Moderation in Social Networks’ - free to download from our website. Marketing to consumers on social networks is a fast-growing area for brands, who now want to “fish where the fishes are” as Coca-Cola’s recent social media strategy put it.