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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The Irony: MySpace Okay, so in my previous paragraph, I mention that you should be an early adopter of social networks. However, I joined MySpace in 2006 to network with individuals who refused to use Facebook and to return to my liberal ways of accepting a lot more friend requests than I normally would. > click.

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R.I.P. Friendster

Ari Herzog

A vertical listing of my avatar, biographical data, friends’ comments, and links to their profiles encompassed Friendster’s simplicity. When the news feed arrived at Facebook , Friendster (and Myspace) began to die. Here’s a screenshot of the first half of my profile : I joined Friendster in July 2003.

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Twitter is Dead Pls RT

Taylor Marek

Remember MySpace? I remember when Myspace was “talked up&# all the time in mainstream news, whether it was good or bad. Sure, the media shined more of a negative light on myspace, which accounts for most of the traffic, but the instant myspace hit the airwaves and everybody heard about it is when it hit its high point.

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#95: Now is the Hour, 5 Branding Mistakes, and Facebook breaks 250.

Taylor Marek

link] Technology : Facebook breaks 250 million Facebook has broken 250 million users and is crushing MySpace in terms of page views, you’ll want to listen to this one! Business : 5 Branding Mistakes Don’t make the same mistakes when building your brand. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar !

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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

Laurel Papworth

Real World Events Music labels, film studios pay MySpace for record launches and Secret Shows. Social ads is the worst revenue payer in social media (MySpace make $2.17 Maybe nice avatars or backgrounds created by budding entrepreneurs and facilitated by Twitter? Threadless, YouTube, MySpace have all had that in the past.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

There’s been a bit of news about it recently. However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. Social Media is Inexpensive False. It’s about humanization.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Here is some research that shows as little as 4% of your customers are actively advocating your brand: [link] The good news is that as marketers, we at least have inexpensive, accessible data through the social web to learn about this. You may be influential in social media and your children more in “Avatar&# or &# gaming&#.