Although we’re not so convinced about the new Google Music‘s prospects for taking on the all-conquering iTunes, we think Google could be on to a winner with its new Artist Hub Service.
In fact, we think it’s one area where they could absolutely trounce Apple – and if the new bands start to make this a central part of their online activity, then it could well influence people to switch to Google Music in the long-term.
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After what seemed like a never-ending tailspin into obscurity, hope may burn bright once again for the beleaguered former social networking heavyweight, MySpace.
Bought up for $580 million by News Corp in 2005, the site underwent a series of catastrophic updates, pointless redesigns and calamitous refreshes, which left users jettisoning the fast-sinking ship at an extreme rate of knots.
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April 27th, 2011 9:15am
mike s
Jettisoning users quicker than the LibDems are losing voters, MySpace was once a fantastic resource for bands, fans and promoters.
Its appeal was fairly simple: it provided an easy way for music lovers to check out new bands, it was a great for bands to keep in touch with their fans (and vice versa), and for the music industry it proved a great place to check out upcoming new acts. We loved it.
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January 25th, 2011 11:15am
mike s
We may all be social networked up to the hilt these days, but it wasn’t that long ago that the only way you could get chatting online was through near steam-powered Bulletin Board Systems.
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January 3rd, 2011 10:15am
mike s
Once the unrivalled heavyweight of the social networking scene, MySpace continues to suffer a calamitous decline in traffic, with a dreadful redesign doing nothing to stave off the mass exodus of users.
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December 30th, 2010 2:00pm
mike s
Huzzah! It looks like we’ve got time for one more infographic before the year’s out, and this one comes filled with facts from the sharing widget AddThis, which is installed on more than 7 million domains and claims to reach over a billion users every month.
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Fast-fading social networking site MySpace has hooked up with Facebook to bring you ‘Mashup with Facebook,’ in a humbling move that reflects their tumbling market share.
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A big budget redesign of MySpace has started rolling out, as the planet’s former number one social networking site tries to claw back some of its rapidly evaporating traffic.
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August 4th, 2010 10:43am
mike s
With MySpace recently discovering the devastating news that they’d managed to lose half their UK audience, you’d think they’d be going flat out to improve the user experience.
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October 13th, 2009 10:42am
mike s
Recent figures show MySpace’s decline in freefall, with the once-don of social networking sites rapidly shedding value and losing hundreds of millions for its parent company, News Corp.
Numbers released by web analytics firm Compete.com make uncomfortable reading for Murdoch and Co, with US traffic spiralling in a downwards direction from 55.6 million unique visitors in August to 50.2 million in September.
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