Today the question heard around the (tech) world: MySpace is still a thing? The Wall Street Journal reported that MySpace’s user numbers are actually growing, years after it became the overlooked stepsister of… Read more »
Myspace could have been what Facebook and YouTube are now if News Corp. hadn’t messed it up, according to Rupert Murdoch, who also believes that it will take a long time… Read more »
The company’s SaaS platform offers a confidential way for users to discover bugs affecting various tech companies without the threat of litigation. Read more »
Facebook has risen and it may fall, but using a disease analogy is tenuous at best. That hasn’t stopped a piece of non-peer-reviewed modeling by Princeton researchers from, er, going viral… Read more »
Wall Street Journal technology writer Farhad Manjoo says there’s no point in paying attention to what younger users do, because they are poor predictors of technology trends — but he couldn’t… Read more »
Gravity CTO Jim Benedetto knows his way around MySQL after managing a 600-instance cluster at MySpace, but he has found HBase religion as his real-time content-recommendation platform grew. And he’s not… Read more »
Astute mobile application vendors are bringing to market applications that help mobile users connect and interact with people in close proximity. We expect this emerging market — what we call proximity-based… Read more »
According to survey results, 79% of respondents said communicating with friends is one of the main reasons for using social networking, followed by viewing or posting photos at 46%. Read more »
Facebook, with its network-effect-driven scale, dominates the social media landscape. LinkedIn and Twitter follow at a distant second and third. This market will continue to be defined by these dynamics for… Read more »
Over-the-top (OTT) messaging applications have upended the mobile operators’ highly profitable short messaging services (SMS) business. The traditional mobile-messaging value chain is changing as upstart OTT players attack the carriers’ control… Read more »