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.
Google Opens Social Networking With OpenSocial
Google has revealed its OpenSocial initiative and third-party developers have already started announcing plans to build applications using their jointly developed social network APIs. That is almost everyone except for Facebook.
Google OpenSocial allows any web sites to build interconnecting social applications using one common set of APIs.
From Google blog: OpenSocial is a set of common APIs that will work on many different social websites, including MySpace, Plaxo, Hi5, Ning, orkut, and LinkedIn, among others. In addition, this allows developers to learn one API, then write a social application for any of those sites. Learn once, write anywhere, if you will. And because it’s built on web standards like HTML and JavaScript, developers don’t have to learn a custom programming language.
Source: Google OpenSocial
