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MySpace To Spin Off Photobucket… To Disney?

Disney-backed Ontela could buy a majority stake in Photobucket from NewsCorp, which purchased the photo-sharing site back in 2007 for a cool $250 million. The idea here is really quite simple: NewsCorp wants cash.

October 18th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: social media, startups | Leave a comment

Should Affiliate Marketers Count on Facebook?

Forrester Research has just published a report which shows moribund growth in affiliate marketing budgets for 2009, followed by an aggressive compound annual growth rate of 16%:

The question is: how many of these ad dollars will flow to social media? Andy Beal explains:

Sixty-two percent of U.S. online buyers use social networking sites like [...]

September 29th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: advertising, social media | Leave a comment

MySpace Now Lets You Update Your Twitter, Vicey-Versey

Not content to sit on the microblogging sidelines, MySpace recently launched the ability to update your Twitter status from your MySpace profile, as well as update your MySpace status from Twitter.

Yawn.

Why did it take MySpace so long to add what amounts to a basic feature? Third-party apps have existed for a year which will update [...]

September 19th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: social media | Leave a comment

Facebook Mobile Now Connecting 65 Million People

In an astounding announcement, Facebook reveals that 65 million users now interact with the site through mobile applications:

Facebook Mobile first started as a simple mobile site in English with a few of the core site features built in, such as status updates and photo uploads. Since then, we’ve grown far beyond what was [...]

September 3rd, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: apps, mobile, social media | Leave a comment

SHOCKER: News Corp-Funded Study Concludes That MySpace is Safe After All

MySpace is safe for children, according to the results of a News Corp-funded study.

August 29th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: social media | Leave a comment
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