Entries Tagged as 'MySpace'

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Social Web Pips Porn

Apparently social networks are so hot they are more popular than porn.  As reported by Reuters, Bill Tancer and Hitwise have analysed data from over 10 million users the results of which, Tancer claims, reflects not just what’s happening on-line but also a broader view of people’s behaviour and society.
According to Tancer one of the [...]

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Employees choose social networking workplaces

Poking 9 to 5.
Bosses who block access to MySpace and Facebook at work risk losing valuable staff to other companies, new research has found.
Almost half of those who use MySpace and Facebook during work hours say they would refuse a job where they were not allowed access to social networking sites, according to the study [...]

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

‘the Internet has created the greatest generation gap since rock n roll’

As quoted in the documentary Growing up Online aired on SBS last night. It’s about the first generation of children to come of age on the Internet. As some experts and kids point out in the film, adults didn’t grow up in an era when it was culturally acceptable to pour your most private self, or [...]

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

MySpaceTV gets more popular

MySpaceTV, MySpace’s video-sharing platform, has jumped 71 places to rank as the 43rd most popular website visited by Australian Internet users during February 2008. During the same period, this jump in rankings represented an increase in market share of over 228%. Yes, 228%! Among the non-branded search terms directing traffic to MySpaceTV during the 4 [...]

Monday, March 17th, 2008

The future of Social Networking

 
There is talk that the features of social networking will gradually absorb into everything we do online or possibly be accessed through bespoke personal portals. This means that the future social networking may not be destination dependent and we won’t need to log in to a branded url to connect. Can Facebook, MySpace and Bebo [...]