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myYearbook Turns A Profit By Getting Users To Pay

While pure-play media sites try to figure out how to offset ad sales declines by charging readers, it seems that social networks—surprisingly—are making faster progress at getting their users to pay up. The latest example is teen-friendly social net myYearbook, which says it's now profitable because of a subscription...

Tags: Revenue, Payment, myYearbook, Operational Accounting, Games, Finance, Personal Technology, E-Commerce, Money, Social Media, Tameka Kee

External links 2009-08-17

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myYearbook: Would You Pay for Social Networking Extras?

Posted by: Douglas MacMillan on August 17 In many ways, myYearbook is the polar opposite of Facebook. While the average age of Facebook users gets older and older, myYearbook grows its core demographic of 13-17 year-olds, which make up 43% of users on the site. Facebook allows third-party developers to...

Tags: Facebook, Site

News items 2009-08-17

Facebook Sees Nearly 200% Visit Boost, While Twitter Traffic Also Soars

Facebook logged 58.6 percent of all U.S. visits among155 social networking Web sites in September 2009, a 194 percent increase over the site's market share from September 2008. HitWise gauged the online traffic of 10 million U.S. Web users across one million Web sites. Twitter boasted astronomical growth, up 1,170...

Tags: Facebook, Network, social networking, Site, Twitter Inc., Hitwise

News items 2009-10-12

Facebook, Twitter Continue Rising; MySpace Dips

For September 2009, the site claimed 58.6 percent of U.S. social networking tracking, a jump of 194-percent over the same period last year. Twitter's increase, meanwhile, was downright absurd, jumping 1,170 percent over the past year. Of course, it must be noted that Facebook was already rather well established this...

Tags: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter Inc., Hitwise

News items 2009-10-12

Social networks war shows Facebook dominant

Facebook is leaping ahead of MySpace to turn into the most popular social networking site in the U.S. Yet although Facebook nailed down 58.6 percent of all U.S visits to social networking sites in September -- for an increase of 194 percent -- use of Twitter surged even more astoundingly,...

Tags: Facebook, MySpace, social networking, Twitter Inc., Social Networking Site

News items 2009-10-14