And then there was the Facebook Play button…
One thing about apps ecosystems, they sometimes add a layer of complexity to the user experience. Facebook’s Listen button on artist pages won’t work as seamlessly as MySpace’s browser-based on-demand...
View ArticleMyspace agrees to privacy controls sought by F.T.C.
Myspace is effectively agreeing to do the same things Facebook and Google earlier agreed to do. No fines, just promises of compliance and auditing. Link www.nytimes.com
View ArticleYahoo swaps CEOs, makes peace with Loeb
Ross Levinsohn – a real media guy who probably should have got the job post-Bartz – will be the big portal’s interim CEO after former PayPal exec Scott Thompson fell victim to a resume-padding scandal....
View ArticleThe discovery democracy: how social discovery is transforming entertainment
The discovery process itself is being disrupted by innovation and by the changing ways in which consumers now interact online.
View ArticleGlobal virtual goods forecast, 2010—2016
Social virtual goods revenues will grow from $2.1 billion in 2010 to $4.1 billion in 2016.
View ArticleMyspace introduces impressive redesign – but is it enough?
Myspace is getting remarkably good reviews for a demo video of features you can’t actually use yet. Link thenextweb.com
View ArticleMark Cuban’s move a worrisome sign for Facebook
Cuban is migrating his properties to platforms like Tumblr and Twitter, and if Facebook doesn't address his complaints, it's likely to see other brand leaders follow in his footsteps.
View ArticleThe converged-mobile-messaging market: analysis and forecast
Successful carriers will embrace new IP-based messaging services and use them to extend value to customers.
View ArticleSocial networkers survey: how to compete with Facebook in 2013
If any generalist network is going to gain mass-market traction, it will be at the expense of Facebook, not in addition to it.
View ArticleProximity-based mobile social networking: outlook and analysis
There will be 226 million users of proximity-based social networks in 2016.
View ArticleGigaom: Wit, wisdom and breaking news from the New York Television Festival
The web's most popular Jane Austin adaptation gets a big deal. The value of mainstream celebrities might not measure up to web celebrities. Some people actually miss Myspace. And other things…
View ArticleResearch: The converged-mobile-messaging market: analysis and forecast
Over-the-top (OTT) messaging applications have upended the mobile operators’ highly profitable short messaging services (SMS) business. The traditional mobile-messaging value chain is changing as...
View ArticleResearch: Social networkers survey: how to compete with Facebook in 2013
Facebook, with its network-effect-driven scale, dominates the social media landscape. LinkedIn and Twitter follow at a distant second and third. This market will continue to be defined by these...
View ArticleResearch: Proximity-based mobile social networking: outlook and analysis
Astute mobile application vendors are bringing to market applications that help mobile users connect and interact with people in close proximity. We expect this emerging market — what we call...
View ArticleGigaom: How HBase converted MySpace’s MySQL champion and is driving Hadoop...
Gravity CTO Jim Benedetto knows his way around MySQL after managing a 600-instance cluster at MySpace, but he has found HBase religion as his real-time content-recommendation platform grew. And he's not…
View ArticleGigaom: Why the youth market matters for Snapchat and Facebook, despite what...
Wall Street Journal technology writer Farhad Manjoo says there's no point in paying attention to what younger users do, because they are poor predictors of technology trends -- but he couldn't…
View ArticleGigaom: Will “disease-like” Facebook lose 80 percent of users by 2017? Don’t...
Facebook has risen and it may fall, but using a disease analogy is tenuous at best. That hasn't stopped a piece of non-peer-reviewed modeling by Princeton researchers from, er, going viral…
View ArticleGigaom: Amplification & the changing role of media
As more sources of news start to go direct by posting their thoughts to their blogs, Twitter and Facebook pages, a journalist's role becomes more about deciding what to amplify and…
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