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Google Plus Taking a Nose-Dive Already?

by Mike Mansell July 29, 2011
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It seems that users have been fed up with Facebook and Twitter for nearly as long as each respective service has been around, and if only in day-dreams I think it’s safe to say that just about everyone has wished for the “perfect” social network to come along at one point or another. After opening its doors as an invite-only service on June 28th, yesterday officially marked the one month milestone for Google Plus.

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MySpace Sells for $35 Million

by Mike Mansell June 30, 2011
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It’s amazing how quickly things in life can change.  Just a few short years ago social networking website MySpace was legendary and considered hip amongst the younger generation.  Really, I remember a time when you would meet a person in line at a grocery store, and instead of swapping mobile numbers or even email addresses [...]

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Facebook to Hit the High-Note on Music: MySpace to Lose Big?

by Mike Mansell June 21, 2011
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While the once-popular social network MySpace has declined significantly in recent years with the uprising of more popular social media sites such as Twitter and sites like Facebook, the site has managed to hold on to one audience; the music industry. But now it is becoming apparent that MySpace may soon lose that strongpoint.

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Should MySpace Be a Prospective Acquisition for Google?

by Mike Mansell January 26, 2011
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After once having been a symbol of society’s social lifestyle, MySpace has lost a great deal of business and traffic over the last couple of years, and has ultimately become left in the dust as newer social networks such as Facebook steal the spotlight. Even after the overhaul that MySpace underwent a number of months [...]

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MySpace Lays Off Nearly 500 Employees

by Mike Mansell January 12, 2011
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It’s no secret that the once insanely popular social network MySpace has become a fading trend in recent years, and has been abandoned by magnitudes of users in favor of the now-popular Facebook.  With a dying user-base, many have begun to speculate as to the fate of MySpace – now a subsidiary of media empire News Corp. [...]

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MySpace Redefining Its Image, But Why?

by Mike Mansell December 1, 2010
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Just a matter of years ago, MySpace was the place to be on the Internet.  Anyone who was anybody had an account, and the social network seemed to grow with each passing day.  However after the mainstream takeoff of Facebook, MySpace was soon left in the dust – much like Friendster, the social network that [...]

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I Told You MySpace Should Focus On Music

by Jeff Weisbein July 23, 2009
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According to recent Nielsen data for June 2009, traffic to MySpace Music has grown 190% since its launch in September 2008 and year-over-year traffic to the URL has increased a whopping 1,017%.  Additionally, MySpace Music the third largest music destination on the web (within that category of sites) only behind AOL Music and Yahoo! Music.  [...]

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MySpace To Tom: Twiddle Your Thumbs For $500K/Year

by Jeff Weisbein June 23, 2009
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As MySpace continues to flounder they are asking co-founder Tom Anderson (the guy who is everyone’s first friend by default) to take on a new role as an “ambassador” to MySpace, but not without a significant pay cut. Tom who was a reportedly getting $7.5 million/year from the contract he signed after he sold the [...]

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MySpace Flounders, Facebook Marches On

by Jeff Weisbein June 23, 2009
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MySpace employees have begun to feel the hurt of the floundering social network.  The company has now announced that over 700 of it’s 1,800 total employees have been or will be laid off – 30% of U.S. staff last week, and 66% of non-U.S. staff today. Meanwhile, the rival Facebook employees are enjoying being able [...]

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