In the world of social media gaming, Disney has now joined in with this new craze and brought Playdom. Playdom costing Disney a hugh $532.6 million plus an additional $200 million earn-out, is set to be stiff competition for other social gaming giants such as Zynga.
Following on from the recent article we brought you about MySpace losing 49% of its user traffic, it now appears that the once-popular social networking website is getting a re-launch. News Corp. has just announced plans of a MySpace re-launch this year.
There were two interesting stories this week in the world of social networking. The first was the fact that Facebook reached a milestone with 500 million users, but on the other end of that scale was MySpace and reports of a drop in users by 49 percent.
News moves fast in todays online world, which is why Jason Harris over on CMSWire has a roundup of all the weeks social networking news. There are already articles on OSM about Foursquare reaching 100 million check-ins and the dissatisfaction of customers who use Facebook so follow the links to those articles. In other news [...]
Foresee Results have now concluded their 2010 American Customer Survey based on online social networking sites. The results concluded that sites Facebook and MySpace were placed towards the bottom of the ratings. Facebook were given 64 out of 100 points with MySpace placed just underneath them with a point less.
With just one day to go until Comic Con 2010, MTV and MySpace has announced that they will offer livestream videos of a number of celebrity guests – including Jeff Bridges, Seth Rogen and strangely a few members from Glee. The videos will also offer a number of secrets behind the scenes footage of upcoming [...]
It appears that MySpace is getting its profile pages updated with a complete redesign which is currently being tested by some users from today. A MySpace rep has stated that the redesign is so far getting a favourable response from users and that it wants users to provide them with feedback on the changes.
According to a US market research story, gay and lesbian adults are among the country’s biggest users of social networking sites and blogs.
There is no denying how popular Twitter is right now, but those in charge feel the need for change- something that MySpace should have done a long time ago. Many of us know about the book “Who Moved my Cheese”, Twitter has taken this advice early, but MySpace has to face the facts that its [...]
In light of recent news that AOL is to try to offload Bebo or scrap it, we have to wonder how these older social networking sites are able to counter the constant attack from Facebook and Twitter. MySpace was a big player a few years back, but has since struggled to keep its users.
