Hey, it's Super Sunday on 4th Feb! So celebrate American Football. And if your are not at the stadium, then catch up with the game on TV while you munch lotsa chips and enjoy your pizzas. Here are some photo/flash-messages to wish your Myspace dearies Super Sunday...Just copy the html codes and paste them in Myspace "post comment" box. Click on the pics to get a clearer view...
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Personalize & Send This As Ecard
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Hey, it's Groundhog Day on 2nd Feb! So watch out for the cute little Groundhogs and get set for a whole lot of fun this Spring. Here are some photo/flash-messages to wish your Myspace dearies Groundhogs day...Just copy the html codes and paste
them in Myspace "post comment" box. Click on the pics to get a clearer view...
Personalize & Send This As EcardClick Here To Get This Photo-Comment CodePersonalize & Send This As EcardClick Here To Get This Photo-Comment Code
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According to a Mashable report: “MySpace” has been proclaimed to be the topmost US search term of 2006 (by Hitwise). The Hitwise Stats went out earlier today and provide a much more believable list as compared to Google’s Zeitgeist of top gainers worldwide. It should be noted that Hitwise measures something slightly different: the search terms referring traffic to the websites they monitor. Plus, it’s US-only and porn searches have been removed.
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As per TechCrunch there was a suspicious outrage on MySpace on Jan 18th. It lasted for around 2.5 hours , the site was working fine but anyone wanting to add a Flash Widget or any sort of embedded code could'nt do it ..
Many were talking of this lately but MySpace has not yet taken any major step in doing so ..but what they were doing lately was flushing off some overtly promotional profiles. The outrage was perhaps just a test to see how they can cut down the widgets or how the people react on this. So will MySpace follow the same road as Friendster?
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It's Whisper "I Love You" Day ! So whisper softly to your sweetheart the three magical words.
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Hey, it's Hug Day on 19th January ! The perfect time to get cozy with your sweetheart, catch up with friends and family and tell them how much you care by sending them Free Hugs . Check out this cool video and discover the feeling of getting free Hugs..on Hug day and always
When you cannot speak your heart out... hugs are the best way to convey even the deepest feeling of the heart. On Send A Hug Day, take the opportunity to hug all your near and dear ones and make them feel special. Send them Send A
Hug Day e-wishes from our collection of free online greetings and make them feel special.
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MySpace is announcing the launch today of “MyState of the Union“, a video contest where entrants express their views on the state of America and where it should be headed.The nominees will be selected by Former Senate Majority Leader Dr. Bill Frist, former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta and political bloggers Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of DailyKos and Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online. MySpace users will vote for the winner, who will be announced on January 22nd - a day before the annual State of the Union address. The prize is an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, DC. They’re also providing buttons to post to your profile page and the videos are hosted on MySpace Video.
It’s one of many contests launched recently by MySpace - others include the Stand Up or Sit Down Comedy Challenge and The MySpace Impact Awards. The site also launched a political campaign in September called Declare Yourself - another commendable attempt to get young people interested in politics. Meanwhile, YouTube has launched countless video contests over recent months - YouTube Underground, the Southwest contest and many smaller competitions like Real Housewives.
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MySpace France will go live today .The French site is at fr.myspace.com . MySpace France was launched in August 2006 and was at the beta period till now .Pete Cashmore of mashable feels that the significance of MySpace France is that it competes against Skyblog, the undisputed champion of the French blogging scene. Skyblog is owned by French radio station Skyrock, and has its own plans to expand across Europe and even launch a US version. The question is whether MySpace, which had 1.3 million uniques in France in November compared to 7 million unique visitors* to Skyblog, can make any progress there. Or the bigger question: can any social network cross language barriers and cultures to become big outside of its home market? The progress of Asian sensation Cyworld in the US market should also help to answer that question.
MySpace UK is the company’s most successful European service, but it seems to lag behind Bebo by most measures. Meanwhile, MySpace also has beta sites in Ireland, Spain, Germany and Italy - the German site will launch officially in the next few weeks. Outside of Europe, they have the newly launched MySpace Japan, MySpace Australia and plans to launch MySpace China. It’s certainly worthwhile for MySpace to expand globally, but I doubt they’ll be able to topple the dominant local players - Americans use MySpace because everybody else uses it, and that’s surely the case in countries where other sites are dominant.
It would be interesting to see if MySpace can indeed cross the cultural divide and become big in other countries .If MySpace hopes to replicate its success in United States it has got to do a lot of research on local cultures and Local demographics .Think Local act global should be its guiding goal.
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News Corp.'s websites, which includes MySpace.com the leading social Networking site , overtook the Yahoo network as the most-visited sites by U.S. users during November, according to audience data from comScore Media Metrix.Though executives at Yahoo.com attributes this to new web2.0 technology like Ajax which is increasingly used for maps, email and other services which they had begun implementing during the last few months .
News Corp.'s MySpace recorded 38.7 billion U.S. page views during November , compared with 38.1 billion for Yahoo Inc., according to comScore Media Metrix. MySpace's growth was 2 per cent over October and triple the 12.5 billion recorded in November 2005.
However my personal view is that in the web2.0 space ,Page Views are not the true reflection of real traffic a site experiances.Unique Visitors should be the standard metrics that should be used to consider traffic to a website. With the embrace of Ajax technology, which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, Ajax is a web development technique for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user requests a change. This is meant to increase the web page's interactivity, speed, and usability.
May, former ClickZ Managing Editor Pamela Parker, now with Federated Media, concluded that perhaps analytics needed to catch up to the new technology. "Things are getting more complex every day, and it's time to start asking about more than just pageviews, about more than just impressions."
"This is a dirty little secret in the advertising business that no one wants to talk about," Micro Persuasion's Steve Rubel wrote recently. "Media companies love to promote how many page views their properties get. They've used the data to build equity. They will fight it tooth and nail to protect it, perhaps by not embracing interactive technologies as quickly as they should. But that's not going to stop the revolution from coming."
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Forbes in their in a recent report on "social networking sites"says that MySpace's share of traffic among the top 20 social-networking sites shrank 1 percent from October to November, according to online monitoring service Hitwise — and while it still owns more than 81% of that category — its users are going exploring.Like thrill-seeking teens driving up and down a main drag, kids on the Web have cruised endlessly over sites like MySpace, and they want more. More action, that is.
"I still go on MySpace and Facebook," says 21-year-old San Francisco resident Matthew Gorman. "But it's like a revolving door. You check your messages and you leave. There's just nothing to do."
But Gorman found a new site — Xuqa.com — that entertains him enough to keep him coming back for 40 hours a week. Xuqa relaunched in August as a social-networking-site-cum-contest, where users compete for popularity points by accumulating virtual kisses and hugs, winning poker games, spending "peanuts," and even filling out surveys and looking at ads, all to attain status levels.
Only a few enterprising kids have "won" Xuqa by reaching the highest popularity level — 10 — and claiming a $1,000 prize. One or two Xuqa members have won rock band and modeling contests and the chance to be considered for agency representation. The site has more than 1 million members, who spend an average of 20 minutes on the site each time they visit, and the company is profitable, according to its 24-year-old co-founder, Ali Moiz. The site's ad-viewing incentives drive the average revenue per user up higher than typical social networks, he says.
"There's always stuff going on," says Gorman. "Once more [MySpace users] find out about this game, they'll realize what they've been missing."
Xuqa makes the transition easy — MySpace members can cut and paste their profiles into Xuqa — but like Gorman, most won't delete their profiles on the big networks. Moiz thinks social networking users have the attention span for more than one community.
Overall, the number of social networks evolving into games is on the rise. "In November, Yahoo! bought Bix.com, a social networking site designed to host performance-related contests of all kinds, for an undisclosed amount. Users watch videos, listen to karaoke and look at photos, then vote for "winners" based on their opinions of the submissions. Winners receive prizes awarded by the contest sponsor. But a social site doesn't need prizes and winners to feel like play.
Just ask Brant Walker, a Web design student at San Diego's Platt College, who founded "Fake Your Space" in late November. In just two weeks, his startup found more than 300 customers willing to pay for fake friends for their MySpace profiles. But these aren't just any friends — they're male and female models who leave racy comments and photographs in their digital wake.
The primary reason why Myspace holds on to its market share is because of its coolness factor .Any social network in order to maintain its position needs to tap to the lucrative teenage demographics and adddress this coolness.. Myspace may seem to be cluttered and messy but most teens have their entire social networks in myspace.com and they may move about different social networks but eventually settle at myspace and at this moment almost all of them with exceptions of a few are clone of myspace .. Stickam with its new web broadcasting feauture might be the new kid on the block.. but it remains how it handles the controversy regarding the use of webcams in this area..
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Most people I have spoken to and heard shares my view that Myspace is messy .Inspite of its explosive growth myspace has never really tried to address this problem and has allowed it to remain as it is .Umair of bubblegeneration strategy lab tries to explain this messiness with an excellent post here which talks about how this messiness is a kind of garb to exlore a value proposition for this long tail of Myspace generation . He also talks about why Linkedin can never become as distruptive as Myspace Myspace is the digital ghetto. It's ugly, nasty, and brutish. But it's got soul and character. Interesting conversations happen there. In other words, it's messy. And, in large part, that's why it's rocked - messiness explodes value creation at the edge.
LinkedIn is clean, smooth, and streamlined - and utterly devoid of any possibilities for meaningful interaction. But this in itself begs a deeper question. Why didn't LinkedIn ever learn to get messy? Umair feels that when LinkedIn's near-term prospects weren't materializing the way investors hoped they would, LinkedIn changed it's strategy. Instead of learning about what it takes to make the social happen, it shifted to focusing on what it thought would be easy pickings: it forgot about consumers, and focused on recruiters.But LinkedIn, again, didn't focus on disrupting this industry - it focused on simply replicating the same old, broken, lame industry economics: on ever-so-slightly dropping the marginal search costs of recruiters finding new candidates.Here, again, LinkedIn refused to get messy. Instead of embracing the new possibilities for value creation at the edge, LinkedIn stayed clean, simply choosing to streamline yesterday's value chain just a tiny bit more - instead of getting messy, it's chosen to get even cleaner.Contrast this with Myspace. Myspace experimented for a long time to come up with it's revolutionary array of services. It's messiness, in turn, reflects this approach.Myspace isn't a streamlined business trying to streamline yesterday's broken music value chain. It's a deeply messy, almost chaotic place, where an entirely value chain is up for grabs. Myspace is messy because it has to be. To forge a new value chain, it needed to pioneer - and needs to continue to pioneer - new possiblities for value creation through deeply revolutionary kinds of interaction (like letting bands compete for the attention of listeners without greedy corporobot suits getting in the way).
Umair is of the opinion that Myspace and LinkedIn are tiny examples of a larger earthquake rolling across the global economy - more and more firms are learning that getting messy at the edge beats trying to keep wiping the core clean.
This post is a must for all those Myspace crictics who have consistently felt that myspace was a bubble2.0 which was going to burst soon . Hoever Myspace has only become more popular and has given rise to a whole lot of Myspace widgets industry .It has not only created value for its users but has also been succesful in providing an anchor to its long tail which has helped small start ups and enterpreneurs who continues to ride the myspace wave .
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Financial Times recently reported that MySpace plans to start selling music downloads before the end of the year, marking the first broad attempt to turn the fast-growing online community site into a commercial powerhouse.
Because of Apple’s lock on core pieces of technology in the digital music business, however, the service is highly unlikely to carry music from established acts, according to industry executives and analysts.
Instead, it will be used by amateur bands looking to generate sales or by acts seeking wider publicity, they said.
In spite of this limited initial role, Chris DeWolfe, co-founder of the social networking group, said it was the first step in a plan to turn MySpace into a force in the mainstream online music business. “Eventually, we should catch more than just the ‘long tail’” of small-scale acts, he said. “This is not just a niche business.”
Many aspiring bands make their music available free of charge on MySpace as a way to promote themselves. Giving them an easy way to sell their music was the next logical step, said Mr DeWolfe.
Anyone with a presence on MySpace will be able to upload their music to the site and offer it for sale on their own page. Though they will be able to set their own price, MySpace will establish a minimum figure to cover the costs of running the service, with any money above that divided between the site and the artists.
The lack of any anti-piracy software built into the system is likely to make it unappealing to mainstream acts, according to analysts. The songs will be carried in MP3 format, meaning once downloaded they can be freely copied and shared with other people.
MySpace selected the format because it wanted to let buyers load songs on to their iPods, said Mr DeWolfe. Because Apple refuses to license its Fairplay digital rights management software, which limits how music is copied and shared, the unprotected MP3 format was the only option, he added.
MySpace is unlikely to be able to create a sizeable business just from selling music by unknown bands, even if it attracts very large numbers of users, said David Card, an analyst at Jupiter Research.
“I’ve yet to see an entertainment company that can be successful by creating a business only out of the ‘long tail’, with no hits,” he said. For amateur bands, “a couple of artists may break through with this, but most of them won’t make much money,” he said.
The plan is the product of an alliance between the social networking site and Sean Fanning, founder of the Napster peer-to-peer music swapping service that unleashed a tidal wave of piracy against the music industry. Mr Fanning’s latest company, Snocap, is supplying the technology to support the music service.
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