There's carnage at MySpace. Almost 800 jobs cut within a week and the closed sign is being hung up around the world. It looks like today we are seeing the social media map being reshaped. Last week MySpace laid off 420 staff in its US offices. Today it has cut a further 300 internationally and is...
I just got an email from the fabulous Guy Phillipson at the IAB which had a side bar that looked like this: You'd have to be a woolly mammoth buried under ten feet of ice for the past 10,000 years NOT to have heard of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or YouTube! But for every few people who have acknowledged...
Last night, as a guest speaker at The Future Laboratory's idea networking event, I had the opportunity to chat about who is doing what in social media, and the pros and cons of big brand's moves into the social media space. Love it or hate it, with Facebook fast approaching 200 million users...
Facebook is waking up to the Twitter threat. Yes it’s a threat and the two are going to clash. Having proved it is no flash in the pan, Twitter is going to eat into the social networking site's traffic and Facebook is doing something about it. Reports on a presentation that took place yesterday are...
One of Twitter's new backers has been explaining what he sees as the future for the micro blogging service. Todd Chaffee, from Institutional Venture Partners and one of Twitter's new backers , told Ad Age that there is huge potential growth in Twitter and that growth is all about search. He said...
And why not? Twitter is a great service that has set the web and media alight with chatter. Businesses find it very useful and to me that seems like a clear sign that Twitter should benefit from some of that and start to pull in some revenues. Since Twitter launched in 2006 it has been searching for...
Been having some interesting conversations with the team at Linkedin in last few weeks and getting some corporate contracts arranged for our larger clients. I have to declare an interest here - I absolutely LOVE this product. The growth in users is phenomenal (1 million more every 15-16 days globally...
The newest get rich quick scheme? Join the Midas touch of all the social networking sites - LinkedIn , then sit back and watch your bankroll skyrocket! According to new information from Anderson Analytics , LinkedIn users, on the whole, are loaded. Two-thirds of LinkedIn users attract annual incomes...
