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• Note to Rupert Murdoch: Not All Content Is Created Equal

  BNET - 2009-08-10

  As you by now no doubt know, Rupert Murdoch said last week that he was eventually going to charge for all of his company's online news content. While I believe multiple revenue streams need to be pursued by content companies, Murdoch's plan raises questions not only about what content people...

  Tags: Rupert Murdoch, News Corp., MySpace, Subscription Model, Journal, Social Networking, Financial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Catharine P. Taylor

• Facebook Passes MySpace, And MySpace Looks to Become Something Else

  BNET - 2009-07-16

  Earlier this week, comScore released numbers to its clients that Facebook has finally surpassed MySpace in terms of unique users in the U.S. It's been inevitable for some time now, but as of this writing, it's official. Facebook had 77 million uniques in May, while MySpace dropped to 68.4 million....

  Tags: Facebook, Entertainment, MySpace, Advertising & Promotion, Portals, Marketing, Internet, Catharine P. Taylor

• The Michael Jackson Memorial Streamies for Best and Worst Site Performance

  BNET - 2009-07-07

  What I, and maybe you, really want to know about the Michael Jackson memorial service is how the Internet held up during what may prove to have been unprecedented traffic, and streaming â€" so, as a public service, I spent the last few hours monitoring it. First, some top-line observations,...

  Tags: Performance, Social Media, Michael Jackson, MySpace, Social Media Tool, Internet, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Catharine P. Taylor

• Jon Miller, Owen Van Natta Explain MySpace and News Corp. to You

  BNET - 2009-06-30

  The AllThingsD blog has finally posted an almost 45-minute interview with News Corp. and MySpace's new digital intelligentsia from its D7 conference last month, namely chief digital officer Jon Miller and MySpace chief Owen Van Natta; I believe it is their first big, public appearance since being named...

  Tags: News Corp., MySpace, Jon Miller, AllThingsD Blog, Portals, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Catharine P. Taylor

• MySpace's "It's So Over" Problem Among the Social Media Intelligentsia

  BNET - 2009-06-24

  I spent yesterday at a twice-a-year social media conference I run called OMMA Social, and once again, it hit me how deep MySpace's problems are â€" because it's rarer and rarer that it even merits a mention among online media agencies and clients, the people who will need to have...

  Tags: Social Media, MySpace, Catharine P. Taylor

• MySpace Will Never Be Facebook, Van Natta or No

  BNET - 2009-04-23

  Not many of us were expecting Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson to be dethroned from their founders' posts at MySpace quite this fast, but dethroned they have been, almost six months before their contracts were to expire. Their dismissals come, notably â€" and I assume not at all coincidentally â€"...

  Tags: Facebook, Advertisement, MySpace, Catharine P. Taylor

• Is MySpace a Portal That Thinks It's a Social Network?

  BNET - 2009-03-09

  Almost as if to make up for barely mentioning MySpace in her recent cover story on Facebook, Fortune writer Jessi Hempel wrote a 600-word piece for the publication's Tech Daily last week asking if the News Corp.-owned social net could "get its mojo back." A possible answer is yes, if...

  Tags: Facebook, Network, MySpace, Portals, Social Networking, Web Technology, Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Catharine P. Taylor

• AOL Sucks, Google Rocks! If Only It Were that Simple

  BNET - 2009-02-06

  With most of the year-end numbers in for the major online media companies, it's time to take a close look at how all of them are doing in generating money from that shrinking pool called revenue. In general, it's not a great time to be in the online business --...

  Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., America Online Inc., MySpace, Operational Accounting, Finance, Catharine P. Taylor

• MySpace Creeps Into TV's Space

  BNET - 2009-01-08

  Maybe you haven't been hankering to access MySpace on your TV, but no matter. In a deal announced at this week's International Consumer Electronics Show, MySpace has teamed with Toshiba, Samsung, Intel and Yahoo to produce MySpace-ready TVs, part of a broader initiative by the technology providers to incorporate more...

  Tags: MySpace, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Catharine P. Taylor

• MySpace Is Over; Long Live Facebook

  BNET - 2008-12-19

  Mashable has posted a list of the top U.S. social networking sites, according to Nielsen Online, and though MySpace still dominates, with a unique audience in November of 59.1 million, that stat barely counts when you compare its year-on-year growth to the no. 2 social networking site, Facebook. In that...

  Tags: Facebook, MySpace, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Catharine P. Taylor