Posts Tagged ‘MySpace’

Why imeem Really Sold Out

By Om Malik | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | 7:00 PM PT | 5 comments |

akv.jpgThis morning news broke that MySpace, the second-largest social network that’s currently reinventing itself as a music destination, was buying imeem, a free online music service that has been remixed (and remade) more times that ’90s dance anthem “Keep on Moving.” TechCrunch, which reported on the news, didn’t reveal what the deal terms were. I have been dialing sources for information, and have found an interesting backstory behind this sale. Continue »

Imeem Buyout Could Push MySpace Closer to “Freemium”

By Paul Bonanos | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | 9:23 AM PT | 0 comments |

Consolidation appears imminent in the free streaming music sector, as MySpace is on the verge of acquiring social music site Imeem. A source with knowledge of the situation confirmed that negotiations are in process, but no deal is set. If it happens, the buy would be MySpace’s second fire-sale acquisition this year, following its mid-summer deal for iLike at a bargain-basement price. Imeem’s valuation, once reportedly above $200 million, was said to have fallen below $10 million at the time of a recapitalization round earlier this year. Continue »

Would Anyone Pay for MySpace Music?

By Paul Bonanos | Saturday, November 14, 2009 | 9:00 AM PT | 1 comment |

22891v2-max-250x250Speculation arose this past week that News Corp.-owned MySpace Music is considering moving to a paid model, as the cost of free streaming is making its current model unsustainable. News Corp. digital chief Jon Miller expressed some interest in such a move in an onstage interview conducted by paidContent’s Rafat Ali in Monaco on Thursday, noting that he believes in the “freemium” music model conceptually, even if a practical and sustainable version hasn’t appeared yet. Continue »

MySpace Says Twitter Is Closer Competitor Than Facebook

By Liz Gannes | Thursday, October 22, 2009 | 12:51 PM PT | 5 comments |

jonathanmillerMySpace’s recent reorientation to emphasize entertainment over friends makes it more similar to Twitter than Facebook, said News Corp Chief Digital Officer Jonathan Miller at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. “Twitter is about asymmetrical relationships,” said Miller, while Facebook users have mostly symmetrical friend relationships. “MySpace is in between. One of the things we have to focus on right now is you have to declare a major.” Continue »

Social Network Use in the Office Could Spur Better Enterprise Technology

By Jennifer Martinez | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 | 1:00 PM PT | 1 comment |

hand on mouseSocial networking has generally been discouraged in the workplace, with many corporate IT departments blocking access to sites like Facebook and MySpace due to privacy concerns. But these efforts are becoming increasingly futile as our lives continue to converge with social networks, analysts at a Gartner symposium said yesterday. Plus, social networking may even help workers “feel valued, a part of a community, and earn the respect of peers.” Privacy concerns surrounding social networks were brought up at our NewNet Bunker Series, where participants debated whether we should keep our data holed up in walled gardens or leave it open for developers to build upon. (Replay the event and read our live-blogging notes on GigaOM Pro, subscription required.) Continue »

TweetDeck Just Keeps Getting Better

By Jennifer Martinez | Thursday, October 15, 2009 | 12:01 PM PT | 9 comments |

512x512TweetDeck has released an updated version of its desktop application that includes features aimed at helping users get the information that matters most to them. The app, which helps you manage your Facebook, Twitter and MySpace accounts by letting you organize updates from those social sites within columns, is among the most popular social media-focused apps on the web (and a favorite of ours at GigaOM). Continue »

In Q3, Social Media Business Models and Real-Time Search Took Center Stage

By Michael Wolf | Monday, October 12, 2009 | 10:47 AM PT | 3 comments |

Subscribe to GigaOM Pro for $79 a year, get this report.Social networking and the real-time web are changing how information on the Internet is consumed, as the ability to disperse and share information through social platforms and do it using real-time tools is shifting the focus of content from “historical” news to real-time events. Such a shift is giving rise to what we’re calling the NewNet, and it will impact everyone with a business presence online. As part of our GigaOM Pro subscription research service, we’ve compiled a look at the major trends and emerging issues for this next-generation version of the Internet in a third-quarter wrap-up.

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Adobe Partners With Gigya to Bring Flash Apps to the Social Web

By Jennifer Martinez | Monday, September 21, 2009 | 2:22 PM PT | 0 comments |

adobeAdobe partnered with Gigya, a social widget maker, to offer a new service that lets advertisers and developers easily share their Flash-based applications across social, mobile and desktop platforms. The service, available today and called Flash Platform Services for Distribution, will enable developers to track and monetize their applications. As a result of the partnership, developers can add a button to their application and share it across 70 social networks and web destinations, including Facebook, MySpace and iGoogle.

However, Adobe is tardy in its effort to offer this capability, as companies like Clearspring already tout widgets and applications in Flash.  Plus, Facebook opened up its API to developers in 2007, so the rush of developers looking to build apps on the social network has dried up over the years. Continue »

MySpace Taps Into the Power of Twitter With Syncing

By Jennifer Martinez | Monday, September 21, 2009 | 10:15 AM PT | 2 comments |

-16MySpace said today that it’s rolling out a new feature in beta that lets U.S. users sync status updates in their Twitter feed and profile page on the social network, symbolizing MySpace’s efforts to piggyback off of the micro-messaging service’s growing popularity. The syncing function will let people cross-post their status updates from either Twitter or MySpace. When users post their status updates to Twitter, a link posted alongside the tweet will direct people back to MySpace. Continue »

Social Networks Pressuring Traditional Email, IM Channels

By Jennifer Martinez | Thursday, September 17, 2009 | 9:00 PM PT | 8 comments |

People are spending less time on communication sites that are focused around email and instant messaging, according to an analysis released today by the Online Publishers Association, a trade organization, a decline it attributes to the rising popularity of social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Indeed, posting photos and videos to social networks is an easy way to engage people in your social graph and show them what’s going on in your life, and many feature their own built-in email and IM capabilities. And Facebook’s internal user engagement numbers back up the OPA’s findings; it claims some 1 billion chat messages are sent each day and 2 billion photos are uploaded to the site each month. Continue »

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