Posts Tagged with ‘myspace’

The ad market research specialist eMarketer let loose Friday with a few numbers we thought we’d run by you. They pertain to businesses which populate the social networking space, and offer a general estimation of what to expect (for the short term) as far as future revenue for the sub-industry as a whole.
According to the firm’s reading of the next three to four years, the supply of social networks will likely draw in ad revenue somewhere in the area [...]

Strange how social networks behave today.
Bebo, a network with a strong member base in the UK, today announced its partnership with Facebook ? yes, partnership ? through which the two competitors will engage in cross-platform cooperation in the Web application space. Cooperation with one another only.
Yes, ?tis true. The company thought for weeks to be well in pursuit of the common OpenSocial goal some dozen online entities have espoused to hold allegiance to, Bebo has now come out [...]

Bullying is nothing new; it's probably been around as long as humans have been around, and is generally viewed with a “kids will be kids” mentality, except in more extreme cases. And it logically followed that as teenagers made their way onto social networks like MySpace and Facebook , the bullying behaviors would follow.
What most people probably wouldn't have expected was what happened to Megan Meier, in which the mother of a former friend created a MySpace profile for [...]

We here at Profy first profiled Gather.com - a social networking site geared to provide a meeting place of sorts (hence the title) for above-average intellectual discussion (as opposed to the mostly idiocratic MySpace and so forth) - in November of 2006. The following February we delved in a bit deeper, spotlighting the site’s establishment of Essentials, a selection of channels comprised of expert sources of information for books, music, health, money, and so on.
And in September, we [...]

You know how most things to do with technology are supposedly slanted toward the male segment of the human species?
Yes, I?m sure you?re aware. Aware of that assumption, anyway. And it?s completely understandable as to why exactly people feel that that is the case. After all, one doesn?t typically find airport lounges and cafes populated by a great deal of women wielding laptop computers, clicking away happily, content to spend their waken moments in their own personal virtual worlds. [...]

“Utterz, be herd.” Personally, I find that phrase sounding like a bad pun that only a slow on the uptake city slicker could appreciate, and I mean bad. Would the program be any better? Utterz, in their own words, “is the first way you can instantly blog your experiences, thoughts and ideas, anywhere, using all the capabilities of your mobile phone. Utterz mashes together the voice, video, pictures, and text you call or send in and creates an 'Utter' that [...]

Back in September, we brought you word that an Internet television series, dubbed “Quarterlife,” would debut in November. As of last week, it was released.
Produced by Hollywood notables Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, Quarterlife has had just short of two weeks to make some first impressions with the public ? and the press ? and, quite surprisingly, it?s managed to nab itself some fairly good reviews. (Some bads have cropped up - one published yesterday in The New [...]

Facebook’s ploy to allow advertisers to target the site’s users through personalized marketing tactics might be a drive by the social networking giant “to earn big money,” but there’s a crucial component to site’s planned advertising mechanism that might just inhibit Facebook from getting to that place - the place where it gets mega rich, and where its presumed valuation starts to make a bitty-bit of sense.
That crucial component? Its user base. You know, all the college kids, the [...]

More news today about bit blocking, this time concerning stuff happening in the workplace involving online social networking. Of the ?personal? and ?for fun? kind, that is.
Information gleaned from Barracuda Networks, a company specializing in network filtration (you know, blocking spam and whatnot), carries with it an interesting statistic having to do with corporate acceptance of social network use during the workday ? at work. The magic number: 50%.
That?s right. 50 percent of employers are now said to block [...]