MySpace may not have been the original social networking site, since those who’ve been around long enough can remember Friendster and other such places to meet people online. However, for a long while, MySpace was the reigning social networking site, and today, although it has lost some of its market share to Facebook, it is still highly used, especially by teens and young adults.
But does it have any value to freelancers?
You should use MySpace if…

MySpace is best for people who want to target that younger age group. If your website is about entertainment, you’ll likely find a following on …read more

A few years ago, MySpace was the leading social networking website on the planet. Now, not only has Facebook caught MySpace in the social networking race, they’re on the verge of pulling away from MySpace.
As part of that fallout, MySpace recently revealed that they will fire about one-third of their employees — or about 420 workers. MySpace says this move will allow the company to become more nimble and more comparable to Facebook. Considering before this move that MySpace had approximately 1,420 employees and Facebook had 850 employees, this move makes a lot of sense on paper.
However, this may be …read more

According to a recent report by Forrester Research, United States email marketing will reach $2 billion by 2014. That number comes about after factoring in 11% compound growth each year between now and 2014.
If you are in the marketing world, you likely already know the power of email marketing. The report by Forrester Research points to falling costs, more online usage by consumers and high ROI as reasons why email marketing will grow by this staggering rate.
While the good for email marketers is mostly very good, one problem that may become an issue is the growing use of social networking …read more

LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Myspace. These seem to be the top social networking sites used by people around the world. The Today Show did a segment this morning called Online Etiquette. There is some good information here. Take a look at the video and let me know what you think! Scroll down and leave a comment.

Video Credit: MSNBC

Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks who made his billions online, recently had had some complaints about Twitter. At Cuban’s Twitter, Twitter.com/mcuban, he talked about how he thinks some aspects of Facebook are better than Twitter. He also talked about what is killing MySpace.
Here are some of the latest thoughts on Mark Cuban’s Twitter:
-”Blocking venomous idiots. Shame twitter doesnt require real names. FB fan pages dont have same problem”
-”Twitter becoming the Myspace of micromessaging. People creating unlimited accts, gaming numbers, gaming comments while FB pages improve”
-”except with so many fake and dead accounts, followers is not really a …read more

Chris DeWolfe, one of the founders of MySpace in 2004, will reportedly step down as the company’s CEO. MySpace, which was a trail blazer in the social networking industry and was once the biggest social network on the internet, has seen its standing slide more and more in recent months.
Facebook has now past MySpace to become the world’s biggest social network. MySpace, which is own by News Corp., is said to have 130 million members. Facebook is said to have more than 200 million members.
DeWolfe is expected to remain with company in another position. Tom Anderson, known to MySpace members …read more

MySpace, which was once the king of social networking sites, is now turning to their thriving musician profile option in hopes of raising some money. The new MySpace Music homepage allows users to download songs inexpensively from Amazon – and the networking site takes a cut of the profits.
Facebook overtook the #1 spot a year ago with over 200 million users around the world. MySpace is still a respectable second, and they still lead Facebook in active users per month, but some believe that they’re losing steam. Since buying MySpace in 2005, billionaire Rupert Murdoch hasn’t seen much of a …read more

In a powerful collaboration, Universal Music Group and YouTube have formed a partnership. In their online venture, the two companies will attempt to monetize Universal Music Group’s music video catalog of almost 10,000 songs.
While Universal Music Group will be throwing a lot of money at the project, YouTube is providing the technology for the three-pronged attack. The two companies will split the ad revenue on a dedicated YouTube channel, on the Vevo.com website and on a music video player that will be compatible with social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace.
Universal Music Group’s YouTube channel is currently the most …read more

According to Bloomberg.com, MySpace chief operating officer Amit Kapur is leaving the social networking site to start his own company, along with MySpace execs Jim Benedetto and Steve Pearman.
One of the Internet’s most popular websites, especially among teams, MySpace hasn’t been immune to the economic slump, and they’ve been cutting jobs in order to make up for low advertising sales. They’re in fierce competition with Facebook, which had recently been doing better in user statistics.
MySpace is owned by New Corp, and earlier this week, their COO, Peter Chernin also left the company.
In a statement released earlier today, MySpace said:
“We’re incredibly …read more

Web 2.0, according to Wikipedia technology and , is a term describing the sexy trend in the use of World Wide Web, web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.
We have been talking about Social Networking all month and I thought this list from Phil Rosenberg would be a great add to the discussion.
Here is a list of Phil’s Top 50 Favorite sites for Job Seekers:

LinkedIN – Social Network, …read more