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Facebook considers competing with Myspace on the music front

Freelance Social Media

In August 2007 it was forced to pull the plug on Audio, a popular third-party application that allowed users to upload and stream music, in the face of label complaints of copyright violation. Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives also have been busy taking meetings with the major record companies about the strategy.

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Why More Members, Money, and Ads Don’t Always Mean More Success: A B2B Marketer’s Survival Guide

Webbiquity SMM

So the question is–are there things that today’s B2B marketers can learn from history, specifically, the tremendous success of Facebook and the rise, fall and possible resurrection of Myspace? How can the respective histories and behaviors of these two companies inform the best practices for B2B marketers?

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

While this isn’t anything substantially groundbreaking, I propose this question: why is it that many marketers are not embracing the technology earlier? The Irony: MySpace Okay, so in my previous paragraph, I mention that you should be an early adopter of social networks. December 20, 2007 at 12:28 pm toodoo » ?????

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Social Branded Applications – build it once and leverage on several social networks

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Social Network have all opened up their platforms which means that brands have cost effective access to more than 500M engaged users (250M of them on just Facebook and MySpace alone!) The new ad model will be about creating social brand loyalty by creating Social Branded Applications that allow users to interact with your brand attributes.

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The Four Semi-Truths of Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

Semi-truth #1: Our infatuation with the next, new, shiny, thing in social media depreciates as soon as we realize that it’s just another engagement, aggregator, application, thingy requiring more time, increased effort, permission to access, another profile creation etc., fair enough. Great news! What happened? The coolness wore off.

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When You Are Graded as a Facebook Friend

Ari Herzog

There is a Facebook application which grades your level of friendship in accordance to the number of times you interact. It’s just an application. Ari Herzog provides social media marketing and editorial services. Related articles you may enjoy: LinkedIn MySpace Facebook Twitter Time. Don’t take it seriously.

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I Invented Facebook » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Facebook is like MySpace. As I alluded to earlier, MySpace and Friendster were viable Facebook clones, but only one had a smooth and responsive interface that allowed users to interact with each other with ease. This is big market for other developers and they will drive Facebook forward. Facebook is like Classmates.com.

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