Interesting Take on Social Networking & Media (MySpace, Facebook…)

June 4th, 2009 Social networking is getting hotter and hotter in US. Ultimately its bulging into a war of social sites, where each site is looking to hook their visitor for maximum hours.

July 31st, 2006 Popular social networking sites like such as MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, Friendster faces ban in US schools & libraries. The Deleting Online Predators Act tries to limit the access of paedophiles to the networking sites which have become hugely popular with minors.

October 8th, 2009 KnowEm is the new buzz in the social networking media that filters unclaimed usernames at 120 social media sites. Well, social media is expanding and too soon you would see all media going social.

May 1st, 2009 White House joins FaceBook, Twitter, MySpaceWASHINGTON — OMG. The White House is joining the popular social network sites of Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.

September 24th, 2007 My public profiles on 9 popular social networking sites: LinkedIn - I have started adding my friends to this. Found some old IITians from this network.

July 17th, 2009 LONDON - Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg has said that the online social networking site now has 250 million users. "The rapid pace of our growth is humbling and exciting for us," the Telegraph quoted him, as saying.

February 3rd, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Social networking website MySpace.com has said that it had ejected more than 90,000 registered sex offenders following an agreement last year with state attorneys general to improve child safety. The figure, which MySpace provided to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, was more than double the number that MySpace had predicted that it would find when it launched the crackdown on online threats to minors.

June 16th, 2009 I must quote, I must quote Old order changeth yielding place to new That precisely means Myspace has grown old enough to be taken over by Facebook. Data released by comScore shows that Facebook passed MySpace by 0.023 million visitors.

February 2nd, 2008 I had previously stated clearly that I will not help anyone to hack MySpace, even if I did know how to. Guess how can you incite me? Here is a very interesting email I received through the contact form which does that admirably: emily waters wrote: well you answered my question you said you dont help people hack into someones elses myspace but i really think you dont know how for i have read it is difficult.

May 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace might be a great way of meeting new people, but they are turning British people into introverts, a new survey has found. In the study led by market research company Mintel, over 50 pct of the adults revealed that they spend more time chatting online than they do actually speaking to friends and family.

August 19th, 2009 MySpace buys iLike in bid to restore lost lusterLOS ANGELES — Social networking hub MySpace said Wednesday it is acquiring iLike, a popular music application on rival Facebook, in the first move by new management to restore some of its lost luster on the Internet. The $20 million agreement to purchase iLike confirmed rumors that had circulated this week and was the first play that new CEO Owen Van Natta has made to expand MySpace's Web footprint after a series of drastic cuts and writedowns.

October 5th, 2009 MySpace names Rosenbaum as its first finance chiefNEW YORK — The social networking hub MySpace says it has named Mark Rosenbaum as its first chief financial officer. News Corp.-owned MySpace said Monday that Rosenbaum will report to CEO Owen Van Natta, who replaced co-founder Chris DeWolfe in the company's top post in April.

April 11th, 2009 In the recent scene, MySpace may not be having a smooth sail. The top executives of MySpace are fleeing and the chief rival Facebook is signing millions of more users gladly.

March 30th, 2009 A University of Kansas professor is researching details of online relationships forged on social networking sites and determining their significance, depth and potential. Nancy Baym, associate professor of communication studies, became interested early on in how the Internet shapes interpersonal communication and of late has focused her research on social networking sites in particular.

April 9th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Five years after it was founded in a Harvard dorm room, the online social networking site Facebook has registered its 200 millionth user, the site confirmed Thursday. 'Growing rapidly to 200 million users is a really good start, but we've always known that in order for Facebook to help people represent everything that is happening in their world, everyone needs to have a voice,' said Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.