Posts Tagged MySpace

Google Search Now Includes Some Facebook Status Updates

Google Search Now Includes Some Facebook Status Updates

Google has just announced via tweet that it’s integrating Facebook Page updates into its real-time search results. Google first revealed that this was coming back in December, when it first started including real-time data in its search results. Other data sources for Google’s real-time results

02.25.2010 | Social Media | Hugo Candeias

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Facebook Doubles, MySpace Visitors Down

Facebook Doubles, MySpace Visitors Down

Clickz.com wrote: Facebook saw the number of U.S. visitors more than double in November 2009 compared to the same month in 2008. The social network had 102.8 million unique visitors in November 2009, making it the largest social network, according to comScore data. [hana-code-insert name='HUGO

01.19.2010 | Social Media | Hugo Candeias

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Google enters in the online music market

Google enters in the online music market

BBC.co.uk wrote: Search giant Google has entered the online music market with a new service for finding and buying music online. OneBox is an alliance with music sites Lala and MySpace-owned iLike. The US-only service allows people to search using song titles, artists or using snippets of l

10.29.2009 | Technology | Hugo Candeias

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Social Networks Have 20% of Display Ad Views

InternetNews.com wrote: Social networking sites earned more than 20 percent of all display ad views online, with MySpace upsetting Facebook by ranking first, according to a study issued by comScore on Tuesday. The report also revealed a strong showing by wireless carriers in the list of advert

09.2.2009 | Marketing | Hugo Candeias

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MySpace to buy Web music service iLike

News Corp's MySpace said on Thursday it has agreed to buy music recommendation service iLike, as the once-hot social networking site tries to reinvent itself as an entertainment portal. MySpace declined to disclose financial terms of an acquisition that brings iLike's twin brother founders Ali a

08.20.2009 | Technology | Hugo Candeias

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What Women Want from Social Sites

Women who are core social network users expect a lot, according to “The Power of Social Networking For Women Research Study” from female-oriented social networking site ShesConnected. Participants in the survey were recruited through several social networks and were encouraged to share it with f

08.17.2009 | Marketing | Hugo Candeias

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It’s SO over: cool cyberkids abandon social networking sites

From uncles wearing skinny jeans to mothers investing in ra-ra skirts and fathers nodding awkwardly along to the latest grime record, the older generation has long known that the surest way to kill a youth trend is to adopt it as its own. The cyberworld, it seems, is no exception. The proliferati

08.6.2009 | Technology | Hugo Candeias

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Facebook criticised by Archbishop

Social networking websites, texting and e-mails are undermining community life, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has warned. Archbishop Vincent Nichols said MySpace and Facebook led young people to seek "transient" friendships, with quantity becoming more important tha

08.3.2009 | Technology | Hugo Candeias

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Do social networks like Twitter belong in media?

If there's one group of executives at this week's Sun Valley media and technology conference who ought to be in good spirits, it's the handful steering the fleet of Internet social networks. The buttresses of old media institutions, from print to television, are under stress from the advertising

07.13.2009 | Marketing, Technology | Hugo Candeias

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What Your Favorite Social Network Says About You

Anderson Analytics Survey Reveals Consumers' Likely Interests, Buying Habits, Media Consumption Do you Twitter? Then you are more interested in sex than the average Facebook, MySpace or LinkedIn user. Like LinkedIn? You're more likely to watch soap operas. Favor MySpace? You're probably not i

07.8.2009 | Technology | Hugo Candeias

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