article thumbnail

Wait, Facebook is MySpace?

Janet Fouts

On Twitter today Myspace is trending, not because it’s about Myspace but because people are suggesting Facebook is doomed to the same fate as Myspace. If you want to hide an application or a type of post (games, quizzes etc.) confused about the changes?

MySpace 155
article thumbnail

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.

MySpace 100
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social media connections are those I know through a variety of online forums, the blogosphere, Twitter, and the like (but I generally don’t befriend someone immediately; I still give it time). The Irony: MySpace Okay, so in my previous paragraph, I mention that you should be an early adopter of social networks.

MySpace 114
article thumbnail

Pheed App: Better Social than Twitter or Facebook?

Bill Hartzer

Although there are many social networks to choose from, almost everyone is either on Twitter , or Facebook (once upon a time that would have been Myspace , but that time has come and gone), while the more tech savvy are on niche social sharing sites like Instagram , and Tumblr.

Twitter 127
article thumbnail

How Social Media Has Become a Tool For Clinical Research

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Powerhouse networks like Facebook and Twitter can be used to promote specific trials to targeted demographics while significantly lowering the cost per patient. Twitter Analytics. National Cancer Institute (NCI) – The institute has produced its own mobile application that let’s users scan the NCI database for new clinical trials.

Research 194
article thumbnail

Five Benefits to Using Twitter Â? Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Twitter as a tool to communicate during conferences. After attending SMX (I’ll post something on that soon) and SES NY, I realized that Twitter is a useful tool for conferencegoers to communicate their whereabouts or to share breaking news and announcements. Similarly, Michael Twittered during SES in April.

Twitter 131
article thumbnail

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., Note I quickly had to run and look up the word nebulous).