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Social Media Stock Talk: Five Reasons to Buy Facebook

Waxing UnLyrical

But we’re talking about one of the most powerful cultural forces of the 21st century … and you can actually buy a piece of it. That means you get to jump into the market and buy a blue chip best-in-breed at a reduced $38 price marker based on general uncertainty that has little to nothing to do with Facebook’s business model.

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The Case For Myspace

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In the end, the buying and selling of Myspace will be a positive business move for News Corp. In June 2006, Myspace became the most popular online social networking site in the United States. Did Facebook's success and the changing landscape of Myspace make it an undesirable business moving forward for News Corp.?

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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The launch of Geocities by Yahoo marked for some the beginning of a new revolution in the online media called social networking. Today, MySpace can be grouped under this category. Classmates.com and MySpace are two social networks in their decline stage. I think most of us agree that MySpace is dead. Like this post?

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Our Shifting Notion of Search, Social and Mobile.

Direct Marketing Observations

In 2000 Google was a 2 year old start-up still trying to create an identity and compete with Yahoo and MSN. Looking back at MySpace, it almost looks like pre-Y2k web Dev. We’ve definitely evolved and rightly or wrongly so depending on your point of view. Take for example search. Social networks are not what they used to be.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #122

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Amazon in talks to buy TI mobile chip arm: paper - Reuters. "Rumour has it that Amazon wants to buy the mobile chip maker Texas Instruments ; the chips already power the Kindle Fire tablet, and speculation is that Amazon wants to move into the mobile phone space, to compete not just against the iPad but also the iPhone.

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A Brief Introduction to The New Community Rules: Marketing on the.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you’re looking at buying a product or utilizing a service, chances are you’re looking for the sentiment about that product or service as well. Is MySpace marketing really worth it? How can I navigate the millions of questions on Yahoo! I hope that doesn’t detract you from buying the book!

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Is Social Media Worth it for You?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Unless the product is a fad, it is doubtful that an online community will impact the buying habits of consumers looking at an impulse bought product. Specially Google, Yahoo and Msn. Answers Yahoo! Their communities don’t tend to be large, and if they are, are made up of non-customers.