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Which Social Networking Site Do You Use Most?

Kori Ellis — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:28:50 +0000

Whether for business, for pleasure, or a little bit of both, it seems everyone is using social networking sites these days. Are you a big fan of Facebook or is Twitter more your thing? Which social networking site is your favorite?

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Which Social Networking Site Do You Use Most?

What Will Be the Next to Die

Jason Bean — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:11:00 +0000

An interested question was presented to an audience I was in this past weekend. If you could predict what the technology landscape will look like in five years, what players won’t be here? If you could go back five years and have guessed, would you have been right today?

In my lifetime the things that come to the top of my mind of having died would be the following:

vinyl records
cassettes
8-tracks
beta max
VCR
floppy disks

If I were to guess about some other items that won’t be here in five years I’d add landline phones. I think incandescent bulbs will probably go away along with places like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video.

The challenge these days with all of these changes is the persistence of the market that’s available through Chris Anderson’s Long Tail. These days I can’t really imagine anything completely dying, but easily getting out of general availability and usage.

With regards to online use. Will email be around? Or will it be replaced with services like Google Wave? Will services like Facebook still be around, or will the next bigger, better deal replace it? I know I sure hope MySpace goes away for good. Will we at some point decide that twitter’s 140 characters is just too much to take in and we’ll drop to some service that allows us to update everyone with one word poetry?

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Rumors of a Myspace Acquisition by Yahoo

Gilad — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:17:56 +0000

The biggest headline yesterday was from the British TIMESONLINE who announced that News Corp explores swap of MySpace site for Yahoo! stake. According to the article, News Corp who owns Myspace, will be willing to give Myspace away in return for a 30 per cent stake in Yahoo. This means a return of $12.3 billion for their $580 million investment only 2 years ago.

Myspace is currently working exclusively with Google for powering its search feature as well as ad platform and a Yahoo takeover may mean a big blow for Google, considering Myspace is the one of the most visited sites on the net.

I must mention that these talks may fail after all given the resignation of Yahoo’s CEO, Terry Semel, only two days ago and the takeover by Yahoo’s co-founder, Jerry Yang.

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