Google, MySpace, Facebook make music moves

LOS ANGELES — Internet power players Google, MySpace and Facebook are adopting strategies to better compete in a music industry that is rapidly shifting online.

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MySpace Music videos to appear on Facebook

LOS ANGELES — Social-networking site MySpace is using its joint venture with recording companies to launch a music video service that will pop into millions of profiles at rival Facebook as well.

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Well, I had a tough time convincing some of my Indian friends that Facebook has far more users than Google's Orkut.  Although Orkut and Facebook was launched almost at the same time, way back in the first quarter of 2004, the later has earned  of popularity beating the giant social network like MySpace. With over 230 million active users Facebook has been dominating the social networking sphere world-wide. While Orkut's dominance remains restricted to Brazil and India. Since July Facebook has started accelerating its coverage in both Brazil and India. In May alone Facebook has doubled its users in Brazil. A similar trend was seen in India where Orkut reigns with 13 million monthly active users. Facebook users doubled from 1.6 million to 3.2 million during May and June. Facebook is fast gobbling up Orkut's strongholds. The element of concern is that the buz on Orkut is losing steam. Whatever be the reason we are hear to discuss 10 ways Orkut can compete with Facebook.

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NEW DELHI - Are you constantly on the move and don't have time to log on to your computer to be in touch with your friends? Coming to your rescue now is your mobile phone through which you can access any social networking site, anytime, anywhere.

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NEW DELHI - The ministry of external affairs is all a-Twitter. Not because Indian diplomats have become net savvy, but one of the new ministers of state is a frequent user of this social networking web tool.

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BANGALORE - How to browse the net, search, e-mail, social networking, browse maps or track stock market trends - this is what global web-based search engine Google is going to teach people as its custom-built Internet bus drives through 15 towns of Karnataka to expose the people to the digital world. The bus, which began its journey Monday, will course through the state for the next 50 days.

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The use of internet for campaigning, being tested in India in the ongoing general elections, will emerge as a powerful medium when the world's largest democracy is ready for the next polls in 2009, concludes a leading tech publication.'Cyber campaigning may come of age in 2009 elections if politicians see marginal gains by using Internet and mobile technologies,' says Ibrahim Ahmad, group editor of Dataquest, which has done a report in its e-governance magazine.

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The success of Orkut has been quite centralized within India, Brazil etc and most importantly, very unlike Google, it has never come out of its limitations. However, this may just be the start when Google takes things seriously with this massively popular social networking site used by millions of people, as Google starts its Google Latitude service (that lets you see your friends' locations and status messages and share yours with them.) in orkut. Full article (161 words) »

GANDHINAGAR - Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is recording short speeches for YouTube to keep in touch with voters across the country.

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NEW DELHI - Hackers, purported to be from Pakistan, once again targeted an Indian portal, attacking the websites of the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS), the premier wire agency and media house headquartered in the national capital.

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