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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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Facebook Graph Search: Why Investors Shouldn’t Worry

Mindjumpers

The fact that you can now look up who of your nearby friends you share interests with, also makes Graph Search a competitor to Google+’ recently launched Communities feature. Similar Posts: Ad Opportunities on Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and Tumblr. friends of friends who work within social media in my area”. Facebook stocks falling.

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Social Media in the Industry: Customization is the Key to Success

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

On top of that, let’s add all of the other social networks out there including Linkedin, Foursquare, Myspace, Friendster, Tumblr, YouTube and the list goes on. to increase visibility in the online community. Foursquare! In this case, Facebook can be a great way to reach out to your local community.

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How to Fix a “Broken Brand” with Social

Convince & Convert

” A promotion on Valentine’s Day last year gave a Lightning cupcake to anyone who checked in on Foursquare or Facebook. He hates to admit it, but James was first active in MySpace. He worked for Jeep, which was one of the first companies to join the social sphere, and at that time MySpace was the place to be.

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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

Laurel Papworth

Whenever I present or give classes on monetizing social networks and online communities people usually have two questions. Or Foursquare style reward badges – most retweeted, most linked. Real World Events Music labels, film studios pay MySpace for record launches and Secret Shows. Two, how can Twitter make money?

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

Myspace: “A place for friends” (2003) Friendster rival Myspace (originally styled as MySpace) quickly became the go-to site for millions of hip teens. 2005 marked the apex of Myspace. 2005 marked the apex of Myspace. Unfortunately, the site’s spike in popularity in 2003 caught the company by surprise.

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Facebook Success Summit - 22 Sessions on Everything Facebook.

Convince & Convert

I’ll be talking about brand community strategy and how to activate your audience. Danny Brown) Tagged as: brand communities , facebook , facebook strategy , facebook success summit , Speaking Engagements Did you enjoy this blog post?

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