With the popularity of sites like MySpace and YouTube, I can easily say that the popular web is moving more towards user generated content. The popularity has already begun and according to a post on LinuxElectrons, they expect it to grow rapidly through 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
After three years, analysts believe that MySpace is worth $15 billion as reported by CNET News.com. It was acquired for $580 million less than a year ago. MySpace has made some moves regarding advertising so much that they have sold out in some segments such as video. Read the rest of this entry »
I came across Time.com’s 50 Coolest Websites on digg.com yesterday. I don’t know if this is a recent article or not because it doesn’t have a date associated with it, but it is for 2006 so it can’t be too old. They have some really cool sites on there a lot of which are Web 2.0 style. I only scanned through a few beyond the normal sites I visit on a daily basis. Going through all 50 can be pretty time consuming, but I’m sure when I get the time I’ll end up bookmarking all of them. Read the rest of this entry »
The Sidejob has a redesign concept of the Myspace.com home page. In my opinion, the concept of Myspace is great. The actual coding of the site and reliability could be worked on. Of course I’ve never had to deal with a site as large as this, but I can still ask questions and maybe give some suggestions. Read the rest of this entry »
Myspace is attempting to jump further into the instant messaging world with its own IM client. Myspace currently allows instant messaging in its web interface, but this is an actual applications program similar to AIM which runs on the user’s computer. As Rafe Needleman of CNET says, while AIM tries to grab part of the social networking arena from MySpace, MySpace is looking to take over part of the IM market, which AIM dominates. Read the rest of this entry »
TechCrunch has what appears to be a screenshot of AIM’s competitor to MySpace called AIM Pages. The interface looks a lot cleaner than MySpace and hopefully they will have the ability to have built in skins to change the look and feel. I think that’s one thing that MySpace lacks are a good ways to customize the page using skins. Sure there are other sites out there that help you but they are much more restricted compared to what the owner of the site could do. If the skins were efficient the user’s profile would be streamline and load without stalling. Read the rest of this entry »
According to CNET News.com, News Corp.’s Fox Interactive Media has purchased Newroo and kSolo two start-up companies that let users remix music and media on the Internet. Newroo allows users to add information from websites and blogs and add it to their own site. kSolo allows users to record audio over song recordings. Read the rest of this entry »
A couple of days ago the NY Times had an article about MySpace’s approach to big profit. The domain name MySpace.com was purchased in 2002 by Chris DeWolfe. The site originally was used to sell a motor skooter. DeWolfe had experience in online marketing such as e-mail blasts and pop-up advertising. MySpace took a different approach. Read the rest of this entry »
With the Web 2.0 phenomenon in affect, people are feeling the investment fever they did in the dot-com era according to CNN Money. The Internet bubble had burst once before and many people thought it would never happen again. The next net boom may happen again. Read the rest of this entry »
News Corp, the group that invested in the popular social networking site MySpace, has invested $13.5 million with Foundation Capital in Simply Hired according to CNET’s News.com. Simply Hired is an ad supported job search engine which searches CareerBuilder.com, Monster and Craigslist. Read the rest of this entry »
