Facebook has become so entrenched as the social media leader, it’s difficult to imagine any new threats emerging…but what about old threats? What about Myspace? That’s right; Justin Timberlake and the Specific Media Group are finally putting their new plans for Myspace into motion. How do they plan on competing with modern juggernauts like Facebook and Twitter? Basically, they’re going to let users register on Myspace using their accounts from other social networks. This isn’t Tom’s Myspace though. The new Myspace from Myspace on Vimeo. MORE >>

You have probably heard of what has recently happened to MySpace. Today, I read an excellent interview published of Robin Davey, a musician, director and producer, who decided to leave MySpace and Facebook and only communicate directly with. For Independent Artists benefits of newsletters facebook interaction Myspace social networkingNow that the website is literally hanging by a thread, many independent artists wonder about their options. MORE >>

Until 2008, MySpace was with its 76 million monthly unique users the most popular social network in the world and a pioneer of its kind. You all know the story of the breakthrough of Facebook, there’s no need to go into detail about the history of the ever growing and almost 1 billion strong social network. In short, as Facebook started to dominate the social media sphere, Myspace was quickly forgotten. The wait is now over: On Monday, Justin Timberlake announced the arrival of the new Myspace in this tweet: THIS IS MYSPACE vimeo.com/myspace/the-ne… #NEWMYSPACE. MORE >>

MySpace is dead and I blame Rupert Murdock. After doing some research into the history of MySpace I realized something – it’s totally the fault of News Corp that the once-mighty social networking pioneer is going to be sold for parts in the coming months, maybe even weeks. We won’t go into the changes (or lack thereof) nor will we look at the commitment (or lack thereof) that News Corp put into MySpace. Had News Corp gone in the right direction, we may not be so obsessed with Facebook or Twitter right now. Now we’re saying ByeSpace to MySpace. MORE >>

First they talked about Facebook and the fact that their apps like Zynga’s Farmville are revealing personal data about users to advertisers. Next, they created, then deleted, then re-created a MySpace story about the same thing that MySpace is doing for their users. Remember, WSJ is paywalled – that means they require your personally identifying information , just like Facebook , to identify who you are, collect your profile image, etc. Facebook and MySpace also do this in various capacities, also optional (gender is required on Facebook though). MORE >>