Tag Archives: myspace
PhotoBlaster 3000
Sometimes I take a photo on my iPhone that I want the whole world to see! Do I really want to upload it 7 different times using a bunch of clunky apps, redefine the tags and so forth? No, my short term goal is to get it uploaded, and I can always tag it and such later on. The easiest way to do this is to enable the ability to e-mail photos to websites. Currently I have this feature enabled on Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, MySpace, YourCanada, and Photobucket. (Click on the link for each one to visit the instructions on how to set it up on your account.) Have all …
Social Media Binge Article 2: Social Networks
What’s out there beyond FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace?
Social Networking – MySpace
Q: What does MySpace have going for it? A: It is well established, as the first-to-market social network. It has hundreds of thousands of users. It is owned by News Corporation, which (in “normal” economic times) gives it pretty deep pockets. Q: What does MySpace have going against it? A: Almost everything else. I am one of those 30-somethings turned off by MySpace because of its early reputation. Nonetheless, I finally joined – mostly just to educate myself about it. These are my immediate thoughts. It’s (still) ugly. It’s crowded. I could not find any useful applications that integrate other social networking tools into your profile (i.e. Twitter). It’s easy …
Social Network Usage Stats
I was “tweeted” a fantastic article about social network stats released by compete.com. There were a few non-surprises in it, however. First thing, FaceBook has now surpassed MySpace in the U.S. as the number one social network. This should surprise nobody. MySpace had such a terrible reputation that most adults avoided it (I know I did). Now that adults have jumped onto social networks, they have jumped on to FaceBook. I think it’s fair to say we’ve reached “critical mass” there, and FaceBook has won the “generic social network” battle (at least for now). Non-surprise number two is that Twitter jumped from 22nd to 3rd. Twitter has caught on with …
