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MySpace Music launches but no serious challenge to Apple

MySpace has launched it music store at long last with all the major record labels on board but it will only be available in the US to start with. The focus of the store will be on full-length audio streaming, with music downloads provided by Amazon MP3, so the service is not really a direct competitor to Apple, as some had expected.

Sarita Jones, 25 September 2008

FriendFeed tries to change the face of social networking

A new generation of social networking sites, led by FriendFeed, is trying to challenge the model of social networking companies such as MySpace and Facebook. The new service started by the creators of Google Maps and Gmail, claims that it is at the heart of an anarchic counter movement of... More »

19 September 2008

Orkut leads Indian social networks

Orkut, which is now owned by Google, remains the dominant social network in India despite the entry of at least a dozen new home-grown players in this space. The overall picture, however, is far from clear. Web traffic data suggests that Facebook and MySpace have made inroads into the Indian... More »

26 February 2008

Impact of Social Networks in the UK grows dramatically

The impact of Social Networks is growing rapidly in the UK. Social networks now account for more than 5% of traffic and 20% of all page impressions in the UK, and younger users are more likely to use them than web-mail based services. Viral marketing campaigns are also likely to be dominated by... More »

25 February 2008

MySpace still leads US networking sites

MySpace, Facebook and Bebo retained the top three spots in the ranking of US Social Networking sites in 2007, with MySpace still claiming over 70% of the traffic to social networks in spite of the publicity surrounding Facebook. MySpace now claims to have over 130 million users in the US. More »

25 February 2008