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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. The tech makes cunning use of some of Google’s speech-to-text algorithms to provide instant subtitles to videos, thus opening up the service to hearing-impaired users – but unfortunately, it seems there are a still a few glitches to be ironed out: Mashable has some examples of the auto-caption #fails which are currently meme-ing their way around the web. Welcome to eModeration's round-up of all that is intriguing, alarming or odd in the world of social media, compiled by Kate Williams.
 
Monday, March 1, 2010
This week: Apple's sauce; Google's woes; and Rickrollin' the trollosphere. THE HEADLINES ... THE LOWDOWN ... IN OTHER NEWS ... ON FACEBOOK ... ON TWITTER ... UNDER THE GAVEL ... VIRTUAL AND GAMES ... THE HEADLINES ... Apple’s rotten week was neatly rounded off by the weekend's revelation that at least eleven children were found to be working in Apple-supplying factories last year. Apple’s wasn’t the only semanus horribilis; Team Google will have been knocking back an extra-strength wheatgrass cocktail or three on Friday night, following a grim week which
 

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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. Take ten minutes now to read the Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out . The rapid growth of Facebook and Twitter has created lots of excitement. Alexa ranks the world’s most popular websites.
Whilst Google Alerts provide a useful source for the latest items that are indexed by its search engine, to understand properly what is being discussed by your brand it is worthwhile investing in some detailed buzz tracking . 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
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and the self-service ads (Facebooks answer to Google’s Adsense, or Adwords or whatever it’s called) are surprisingly high, no? Nick Roshon asks why Facebook revenue is so low compared to MySpace. venture to guess that MySpace Google ad dea l is included in their $2.17 Social media monetization is a funny thing – most people don’t understand that where there are people, there is money. It is highly improbable that the day will come when millions of people together will not mean money.
ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteTalk Enterprise Jobwire About Subscribe Contact Advertise RSS RWW Daily by Email RSS RWW Weekly Wrap-up Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives R/WW Thanksgiving: Thank You Google for Open Social (Or, Why Open Social Really Matters) Written by Alex Iskold / November 22, 2007 8:39 AM / 13 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » When Google and others ganged up on
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 networks Brand Branded content co-creation customer communities facebook flickr freshminds FreshNetworks FreshNetworks Blog Google innovation Internet marketing market research myspace online communities online market research qualitative market research social media social media marketing Social network Social network service Twitter
ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteWeb ReadWriteTalk Enterprise Jobwire About Subscribe Contact Advertise RSS RWW Daily by Email RSS RWW Weekly Wrap-up Home Products Trends Best of RWW Archives Box.net Adds Collaboration, Takes Aim at Google Docs Written by Sarah Perez / February 7, 2008 8:41 AM / 5 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » After being in development for months, Box.net has officially released the
Then, while the social world was rearranging its expression to read ‘not in the slightest bit surprised, saw it coming a mile off actually’, came whammy two: Google is about to do precisely the same thing. The CIA has invested in social monitoring company Visible Technologies. It won’t come as a dreadful shock, then, to hear that MySpace’s new CEO has conceded defeat in its battle with the social colossus. Welcome to eModeration's digest of all that is intriguing, alarming or odd in the world of social media. This week we have capitulated to popular demand: we
In this update: Dunbar's Number; Seesmic jumpstarts Twitter's stats; and how the Nexus One Nixes Bad Words. ON FACEBOOK ... ON TWITTER ... ON GOOGLE ... BRANDS GET SOCIAL ... UNDER THE GAVEL ... SOCIAL STATS ... ON MOBILE ... ON FACEBOOK ... Hoorah! Instead, he anticipates revenue growth from a new advertising platform, commercial analytics features for brands - and “at least” ten more distribution deals. ON GOOGLE ... Hillary Clinton’s recent speech - which called on China to change its policy of internet censorship and conduct a full investigation
The idea was mooted in Charlene Li’s talk on The Future of Social Networks as a natural consequence of “social networks becoming like air - not as in ’sites’ like MySpace and Facebook, but in terms of relationships and connections being available anywhere and everywhere”. Charlene thinks Google is uniquely trustworthy and well-placed to be one of these brokers. Today, most advertisers pay the same amount to serve 1,000 ads to a hyper-connected super-influencer as they do to my granny (granny only rarely uses the Web and has relatively few followers on Twitter).