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Facebook considers competing with Myspace on the music front

Freelance Social Media

The surging social-networking giant is talking to a number of song-streaming services and music community sites, including Rhapsody.com, iMeem.com, iLike.com and Lala.com, about an outsourcing deal that would more deeply integrate their music experience into Facebook, sources familiar with the situation said, the NY Post reports.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

That doesn’t typically fly elsewhere (Facebook will kill the account), but Times Square on Friendster required 2 accounts at the time because I maxed out on the initial 500 person limit. The High Point: Facebook In 2004, I joined Facebook and my behavior changed drastically. I had many friends just like that.

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PR needs to Focus on Conversations

Buzz Marketing for Technology

What they need to sell to upper management is not the notion of targeting certain blogs (I know I get tons of emails every day asking to cover a certain story – which by the way is the wrong approach) – it’s the notion of being part of conversations! Share this on Facebook. Post this to MySpace. Email this to a friend?

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Social Media Stock Talk: Five Reasons to Buy Facebook

Waxing UnLyrical

The biggest news in the history of social media took place Friday when Facebook had its IPO, becoming the biggest social name ever to join the public market. What has surprised me a bit is the amount of negative comments in the Facebook conversation. And that premise seems bunk to me for five distinct reasons: 1.

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Your Phone Is Listening In On Your Conversations And More On This Week's CTRL ALT Delete Segment On CHOM 97.7 FM

Twist Image

may have been the big question, now it may well be "is my phone listening in on my conversations. I've mentioned something to someone during a call, and it suddenly shows up as an ad in my Facebook feed. We often discuss the big FANG companies (Facebook, Apple , Amazon , Netflix , Google ). What ever happened to MySpace ?

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The Five-Year Marketing Plan: Looking Beyond Facebook

Idaconcpts

MySpace ruled the social media roost, fending off a feisty underdog called Facebook that threatened to steal a share of its influence. Within half a decade, most social networkers have fully abandoned MySpace. So is Facebook in any real trouble of becoming irrelevant? Facebook’s initial power lied in its open platform.

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The Five-Year Marketing Plan: Looking Beyond Facebook

Idaconcpts

MySpace ruled the social media roost, fending off a feisty underdog called Facebook that threatened to steal a share of its influence. Within half a decade, most social networkers have fully abandoned MySpace. So is Facebook in any real trouble of becoming irrelevant? Facebook’s initial power lied in its open platform.

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