MySpace Surrenders And Now Sync To Facebook
MySpace used to be the king of the social network but now Facebook has overtaken the reign. Nowadays it will be a mistake if you have nothing to do with Facebook. So MySpace has waved the white flag and start syncing to Facebook. This allows MySpace users, musicians and celebrities around the world to sync their status updates with their Facebook profile or Page, while also offering them the ability to share content such as music, videos, game apps, links and photos with their friends on Facebook.
Facebook Caught Sharing User Data With Advertisers
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Facebook, MySpace, Digg and other social networking websites have been sharing private user data with advertisers without users’ knowledge or consent.
The users data shared are user IDs and usernames that are tied to the user profiles. For example, if you have not lock down your personal info on Facebook, advertisers can find out your real name, age, hometown, sexual orientation and occupation.
Since the investigation by WSJ, MySpace and Facebook have stopped sharing these info with advertisers.
Google Adds MySpace Status To Search
Twitter status dominates Google’s real time search, and MySpace updates will now appear too. Will this be useful? Google also plans to include updates from FriendFeed, Jaiku and Identi.ca.
Facebook Makes MySpace Bite The Dust
According to Internet monitoring company, Experian Hitwise, Facebook is number 1 and Twitter number 2. MySpace has scores of users walking away. For September 2009, Facebook takes 58.6% of U.S. social networking tracking, a jump of 194% over the same period last year. Over the same period, MySpace has plunged to 33%.
mySpace Buys iLike
MySpace is acquiring popular social music discovery service iLike for around $20 million. iLike tracks what you listen to and like and gives you recommendations on new music based on that data as well as what your friends are listening to. It has over 50 million music lovers across Facebook, Bebo, Orkut, hi5, and iGoogle.
Source: iLike Joins Forces With MySpace & Sells Music In-Page
Facebook Trumps MySpace In The U.S.
ComScore research firm says that Facebook had 70.28 million U.S. users last month, topping MySpace’s 70.26 million. Facebook has 307.1 million users worldwide while MySpace has 126.9 million users. Twitter is now the third largest with 7.6 million users.
Facebook Is King Of Social Networking
Market researcher Nielsen Online has found that there is an 83% rise in the use of Facebook in the US compared to last year. Users spent 13.9 billion minutes on Facebook in April 2009.
Twitter comes in strong with 300 million minutes in April 2009. MySpace attracts just under 5 million minutes, a decreased of 31%, according to new figures from Nielsen Online. But MySpace continue to be the number one social networking site for online video.
White House Now On Facebook, Twitter And MySpace
President Barack Obama’s administration has linked the official White House website to various social networking web sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. It is good to see the US government has embraced Web 2.0. Previously, the government has joined up with Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo and iTunes.
Not sure if President Obama will tweet or update Facebook content himself.
MySpace Redesigned June 18
MySpace will impement a global redesign next week in an attempt to update an older model which would hopefully enhance demographics and boost user engagement. The home page, navigation, profile editing, search and MySpace TV will have a new skin. MySpace will be working with open source engine from Lucene. This is a first for MySpace.
Source: MySpace plans redesign for next week
MySpace and Yahoo Join Google OpenSocial
Google has previously revealed its OpenSocial initiative and third-party developers have already started announcing plans to build applications using their jointly developed social network APIs. Yahoo and MySpace are going to develop applications for social networks using OpenSocial.
The three companies expected OpenSocial foundation to launch in 90 days on July 1.
