Published by rwatstein April 6th, 2008
in mobile/cell phones, MySpace and mashups.
Following up on the official launch of MySpace Mobile two weeks ago, the top social network has just announced the expansion of its text message alert program to five new carriers through a partnership with mBlox. CUstomers of Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile USA, Alltel Wireless, US Cellular, and Virgin Mobile USA can now receive notifications of new messages, friend requests, profile comments, and other MySpace activities via SMS message. Previously, major carriers supporting the service included AT&T, Sprint, and Helio. Overall, MySpace and mBlox claim that more than 90% of the social network’s users can now access the service.
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Google, MySpace , and Yahoo recently said they have agreed to form a non-profit group that would govern the development of a standard application programming interface that developers could use in building software for supporting online social networks. The three Internet companies expected the OpenSocial Foundation to launch in 90 days, and asked for others in the industry to rally behind the OpenSocial API, which was developed by Google to foster development across emerging social-network development platforms.
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Published by rwatstein March 29th, 2008
in demographics, MySpace and Wikipedia.
When we think of social networking Web sites like MySpace and Facebook, which have created a phenomenon of sorts over the years, we think their traditional competitors have no chance against them. With the younger generation finding its identity in these web 2.0 applications, one can easily think that they define and shape the thoughts of the users in every way. Not necessarily; the youngsters still prefer to use Wikipedia over MySpace when they want to search about their favorite music or band. While the artists and the bands think that a major share of their online popularity should be attributed to MySpace, there is another traditional web site, which is providing great services, probably even a tad better than that of MySpace.
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Published by rwatstein March 29th, 2008
in demographics, children, internet and MySpace.
A generation of children are effectively being “raised online”, spending most of their free time on social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, a report warns today. It says that many under-16s spend more than 20 hours a week glued to the internet, three times higher than official estimates. With millions left to surf the web on their own, 57 per cent of children have seen online pornography, most of it accidentally in the form of “pop-up” adverts.
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Published by rwatstein March 23rd, 2008
in social networking, Facebook and MySpace.
In the two-horse race of social networking in the United States, it doesn’t have to be an either-or proposition. A recent study of Americans between the ages of 13 and 42 found that 62 percent have accounts on both Facebook and MySpace, and most don’t plan on giving up one site for the other any time soon. The study was commissioned by Fuser, the Web communications aggregator that launched to the public last June, with the stated mission to simplify people’s digital lives. With a new social networking widget, Fuser believes it’s doing just that.
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Social networking sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, have been around for less than five years, but they are already very much part of the Web 2.0 revolution taking place right now. Not only are they changing the way people socialize, they are also making traditional businesses sit up and take notice. It is estimated that about 194 million people around the world are managing at least one profile on a social networking site. And with 800 million internet users still not registered with such sites, the potential for growth is overwhelming.
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In the end, the web is about connections. Websites link to resources, resources recommend articles, articles refer to experts. Without links, websites are invisible. Social networks create links between people, forming connections based on interests, expertise, past employment or education, and friendships. Law librarians, while remaining aware of their pitfalls, can use social networks such as LinkedIn, Ning, Facebook, and even MySpace to promote useful websites and legal resources as well their own expertise and interests. Social networks provide law librarians with new avenues for libraries to reach users.
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Although Facebook has come on strong in recent months, MySpace averaged more than three-quarters of all US visits in 2007 among the top social networking Web sites, according to Hitwise. The site received 72% of US visits to social networks in December 2007 alone. Overall visits to a group of 53 leading social network sites were up 4% year over year, and the top sites are becoming a mainstay of many Internet users’ routines.
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MySpace as well as Attorneys General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Roy Cooper of North Carolina announced an intention t o alleviate concerns about the safety of social networking sites by outlining a set of new rules that have been put in place to especially protect teenagers online. Representing a Working Group on Social Networking covering 49 States and the District of Columbia, MySpace and Attorneys General Blumenthal and Cooper unveiled a Joint Statement on Key Principles of Social Networking Sites Safety. Presented as a rulebook for “industry-wide adoption”, the principles are split into four different categories. First, the functionality of sites should be extended so that every image and video uploaded to the site, as well as group content is reviewed, profiles of 14 and 15 year old users are made private automatically, and profiles of registered sex offenders are deleted. MySpace also said that it is defaulting 16 and 17 year old users’ profiles to private and it will enforce the site’s minimum age of 14.
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MySpace is taking a page from rival Facebook and launching its own version of one of the social network’s most popular services: news feeds that alert users to what their friends are doing. “The concept of a news feed is something we are very focused on, and we’ll be well down the path in the next 30 to 45 days,” FIM chief Peter Levinsohn said at the Reuters Media Summit.
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Published by rwatstein November 12th, 2007
in social sites, Google and MySpace.
MySpace and Google are preparing to launch OpenSocial— a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web. Both companies aim to standardize and simplify the development of social applications. The alliance with Google underscores MySpace’s commitment to supporting standards that foster innovation in an increasingly social Web, said Chris DeWolfe, chief executive officer and co-founder of MySpace.
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Published by rwatstein November 3rd, 2007
in Google and MySpace.
Google’s new OpenSocial alliance encourages web developers to create software applications based on a Google standard that can run on many social networking sites. The new applications could begin appearing within the next few months. They are aimed at an audience of 200 million, including social networks Friendster and LinkedIn.
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The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) is pleased to announce Banned Books Week activities for librarians and the general public in virtual worlds Second Life, Teen Second Life and on social networking sites MySpace and Facebook. ALA is working with other library partners to provide an interactive experience centered on Banned Books Week, September 29-October 6, 2007, to help librarians and others to feel comfortable in social networking spaces and to reach out to new audiences. Partners include Alliance Library System, Alliance Second Life Library, TAP Information Services and the new ALA membership group Virtual Communities and Libraries.
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Published by rwatstein September 22nd, 2007
in social sites, Yahoo, Facebook and MySpace.
Yahoo Inc. has started testing a social-networking service called Mash, in a challenge to Facebook Inc. and News Corp.’s MySpace. Mash users can add photos and information about themselves to their pages and accept contributions from others, Will Aldrich, who runs Mash, said in a recent blog entry on Yahoo’s Web site. For now, an invitation from a friend is needed to join the system
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