MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe And Tom Anderson interviewed on the NBC Today Show

September 26, 2007 at 9:19 am · Filed under Internet Marketing, Social Media

While working I overheard an interview taking place on the tube (flat panel) and thought it may interest some of my readers. So for those of you that are not aware of the reach or the user base of MySpace then the video is definitely recommended reading. One thing that caught my attention was that over 85% of the users are over the age 18. It is also the fastest growing website with over 1oo million users worldwide. They were some more facts that I cannot remember of the top of my head so you’ll just have to watch it.

Now after you watch it, you should ask yourself is “is their a potentiol to find new markets on social networks such as myspace”?

I couldn’t resist so I went ahead and did a few searches on MySpace and these are the results:

Charlotte NC Real Estate

Results 1 - 10 of about 548 for real estate charlotte nc.

Truck Accessories

Results 1 - 10 of about 3,320 for truck accessories

TV networks and movie studios are also paying attention. Look at how Myspace will allow the main homepage be an advertisement.

If you dedicate the time I am sure you could find some possibilities that would be worth pursuing.

Watch the video, check it out for yourself and come to your own conclusions.

Today Show interview of MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe And Tom Anderson

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Google has Gone Social

September 24, 2007 at 3:18 pm · Filed under Internet Marketing, Google, Social Media

Shared Stuff from Craig B

You can now share news stories with others easily as you would with Technorati, Reddit and others. It is not showing the video embedded in the share page just yet, but I can put money on it that it is just a matter of time. I tried it with a youtube share and it just shows a link to the video.

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97th Floor Creates a Social Media Plugin for Firefox

September 13, 2007 at 3:49 pm · Filed under Internet Marketing, Social Media

97th Floor | Social Media for Firefox

97th Floor has created a very useful Social Media tracking plugin. When installed and running it will show you how many votes the same story has on the other social sites such as Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon etc.

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Internet Marketing News for May 28th thru June 1st

June 1, 2007 at 9:06 am · Filed under Uncategorized, Internet Marketing, Social Media

Probably the biggest news this week is Facebook opening it’s social platform up to developers. Why is this important? It shows the movement toward a more social society.

• Facebook announced last week to an audience of 750 developers and partners it was opening up its social network to the development of applications. The platform for this next generation of Facebook will be called Facebook Platform. Facebook Platform launched with 65 developer partners and 85 applications.

  To show some of the power of the Facebook Platform, an example application called Video was offered that allows the sharing of videos between friends within Facebook. Mobile uploading of video is also supported directly by the application.

  The new Facebook Platform will not only open up new services for Facebook users, but also new business opportunities, since Facebook will allow developers to make money from their applications through the use of advertising or transactions.

Although it had been rumored Ebay officially announced their purchase of StumbleUpon. Interesting, another social related news event this week.

• The $75 million cash acquisition gives eBay access to about 2.3 million people who have filled out profiles at StumbleUpon, founded in 2001 by three Canadian software engineers in Calgary. The venture capital-funded company, which recently relocated to San Francisco, is considered a pioneer of the so-called “Web 3.0″ niche.

Shall we go for three in a row? Sure why not we are on a roll. CBS picks up online music site, Last.fm for 280 million in cash.

• London-based Last.fm, which claims 15 million active users in 200 countries, allows users to create communities of interest that include both listeners and musicians. The Last.fm site includes a social recommendation engine that builds a profile of each listener’s tastes and provides links to other users with similar tastes. The site, which was founded in 2002, also provides custom radio streams

It seems it has been a social dominated week to say the least. So much so it has cemented my ambitions for a new project I will be heading up. I have been considering doing something in the social vertical now for some time but these announcements this week validate some of the assumptions I have had recently. If you are interested in learning more you can contact me but I want to keep it hush hush until after we officially launch.

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