The new Myspace, risen from the social media ashes like some kind of a semi-relevant phoenix from the 00s, has already hit its first snafu. It turns out that the site—totally centered around music—might not have secured the right rights. And there’s a whole army of small record labels who aren’t pleased. More »
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The newly redesigned MySpace, which debuted in beta last year, is now being launched. The launch seems to be timed with the release of Justin Timberlake’s new single entitled “Suit & Tie” that features the famous rapper Jay-Z. A quick look at new.myspace.com shows the advertisement of the song plastered across the landing page. In it, there’s Justin Timberlake, co-owner of Myspace, wearing that classic suit and tie, as the song is called. Basically, the old URL of the site will redirect users to the new MySpace. (more…)
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Can Justin Timberlake make MySpace cool again? That’s certainly the social network’s hope, using the lure of early access to the first track from the pop minstrel’s upcoming album to lure back old users and encourage fresh sign-ups. Inside, meanwhile, waits a dramatically redesigned social experience.
Timberlake previewed that design back in November 2011, with the site switching its focus from being a hub for your social life to a place where music is at the center of the experience. In fact, the new MySpace even promises to play nicely with the service that arguably killed it, Facebook, offering Zuckerberg’s system as a registration option.
Until today, invitations were required if you wanted to actually use the new MySpace, but now you can use your old credentials, Facebook, or Twitter, to get access. Linking it with your other social accounts allows you to funnel your listening information across to them, too.
Timberlake – whose single, Suit & Tie feat. Jay Z, will be the first released track from new album The 20/20 Experience expected for release later in 2013 – invested in MySpace back in 2011, along with Specific Media Group. Together, they paid around $35m for the once-mighty site, after News Corp ran it into the ground.
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New MySpace goes public with Justin Timberlake lure is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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After six months of beta testing, the new MySpace is finally opening its doors to the public: now, anyone who wants an account can trot over to the site and sign up. More »
A totally revamped and unrecognizable MySpace has just gone public, enticing new joiners with a track by Justin Timberlake — who now owns a good chunk of the business alongside Specific Media. Based on the limited access teaser we saw back in September and the image above, this fresh incarnation of the social network retains the emphasis on music (“FREE Unlimited music and videos!”) except with a more commercial (and actually less social) approach. In a similarly modern twist, the site lets you sign in with a Facebook or Twitter account as well as with your old MySpace details, which means there shouldn’t be too many barriers to at least exploring it.
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MySpace is back, again. But this time, it realizes how horrible it used to be—and almost everything old is gone. It’s a totally fresh start. Unfortunately, New MySpace is like Old MySpace in one very important way: It’s still stupid. More »
This week the folks at Nielsen have reported that their most recent findings in studying the web’s usage of social networks has yielded one thing clearer than all else: Facebook takes the cake. They’ve made it clear that in addition to Facebook continuing to bash up the charts by a significant margin, we’ve spent 37% more time this year in the month of July on social networks than we did last year at the same time. In just one year, we’ve tacked on nearly 40% more minutes in a month with Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, and the like.
This study in 2012 shows the top 10 social networks to be Facebook, Blogger, Twitter, WordPress, and Linedin to start, with Facebook equalling nearly three times the amount of unique PC visits over its first competitor, Blogger. The list of 10 continues with Pinterest, Google+, Tumblr, MySpace, and Wikia, with each site from Linedin to Tumblr only having right around 1,000,000 unique visitors different between the two – but again, this is all via the PC market, people working from their desktop.
As for visitors from these social networks via their mobile browser presence, there’s a bit different story. Facebook remains in the lead, while Twitter takes over Blogger and Pinterest jumps 2 places to sit in a clear fourth. WordPress is the last of the top 5 with Linedin being the first with numbers under 10 million, it and Tumblr coming up short by less than 2 million each. The bottom three then are Wikia, Reddit, and MySpace – Reddit’s growth is notable at 153% over what it was a year before, the same for Tumblr at 162% over last year. Pinterest deserves the biggest applause in this category with a massive 4,225% growth rate year over year in the mobile app segment.
As for mobile users using apps, we’ve got a top 5 starting with Facebook and moving on the Twitter, then foursquare, Google+, and Pinterest. This chart shows that not only is Pinterest taking off like a rocket – winning the most improved in each category far and away, the whole mobile social network family is growing at a surprisingly fast rate. Have another peek at this study from a different perspective from earlier today.
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Facebook crushes social network top 10 in 2012 Nielsen report is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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