Facebook may be the top dog in the Web arena, but former social networking heavy hitter Myspace refuses to be dead in the water, making multiple modifications in the past few months to site’s interface, branding and audience focus. Today, the New Corp.-owned social network has announced that it has forged a partnership with online marketing platform ReverbNation as it unveils a lineup of new tools geared to help musicians manage their engagements online.
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Despite Facebook’s reign over the social network tubes, MySpace is still in the running, propagating its use by releasing new features (albeit gradual and far between) while putting considerable focus on its more significant and worthwhile thrust as a launch pad for new talents and media entities with their artist profiles. This week, we see yet another feature added to its belt with MySpace Events. This, the social network announced via their press site.
MySpace Events is a new platform for global events set to benefit both users and artists with a grocery list of tools for creating, discovering, sharing and managing events that range from concerts, arts festivals, sporting activities and parties among others.
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IT security and data protection firm Sophos, through its Senior Technology Consultant Graham Cluley, is warning players of the popular Facebook and MySpace game Farm Town to be on their guard for malicious advertisements. According to Cluley’s announcement posted on the Sophos blog, the recent malware activities on the social network game aim to fool unsuspecting players into installing malicious codes or unwittingly disclosing their credit card details by displaying fake security warnings.
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When you are making new resolutions to train for a marathon, eat better or to improve your mile time, do you wake up the day after you start with all your goals met? No? Why not?
During training you experience pain, sore muscles and even failure. Social media is the same. It takes practice, repetition, dedication and the understanding that not all the same tactics will work for everyone.Before you start tweeting or facebook fan page-ing why don’t you take a step back and think about some things:
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Outside of building your own social media homebase, it’s important to interact on some of the social media sites out there to build your social web presence. Some of the most popular include Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Myspace, and LinkedIn.
There is probably a new social networking site launched every week. You need to explore which ones are the best fit for you. Rather than jumping on every new site, do some research to determine which sites fit your niche and prioritize the top two or three sites you think will have the biggest impact for you. Anytime you join a new community, here are some points to take into consideration:
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YouTube gets all the glory when it comes to online video streaming. They serve over a billion streams every single day. They are starting to get mainstream, covering live U2 shows to well, everything they did for the presidential election and the often overlooked fact that they are owned by Sergey and Larry from a somewhat “big” search company.
What many people over look is the fact that there are amazing communities all over the Internet that are using technology that is more advanced, allow for higher quality streams, personalized players and enhanced engagement for watching video online. With the continuing influence of Google’s Universal Search, getting your videos online, and on the right channel can open up your company to more eyeballs, thus a stronger brand with more customers.
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