Tagged: social network

I’m on Myspace (Again)

Deja vu. I logged into Myspace yesterday for the first time in seven years. But this isn’t standard myspace. This is the invite-only closed beta of “new myspace”. And it’s radically different. The new myspace is more of a music discovery and sharing service than a social network. Whereas the old Myspace was comparable to facebook, the new myspace is based on the same...

Exclusive Review: New Myspace (2013)

Today I take on the challenge of reviewing a site long-irrelevant and begging for a comeback. Myspace used to be on top of social media, and then they got downright creepy, lost to facebook, and hit rock bottom. Now myspace tries to reinvent themselves under the notion of a creative a music based social network, and I’d like to share my experience using their private...

Facebook’s Best/Worst Year Ever: A Full Report on FB 2012

This new years, all of the thousands of employees of Facebook are trying to determine what happened in 2012, which was probably their best and worst year in their 10 year history. Let’s take a look back, and see what happened. IPO Facebook goes public. Good or bad? Debatable. While the IPO is usually a good sign of permanence and value to most companies,...

Poke Vs Snapchat- Which is Better?

Snapchat and Poke, the new service competition. I’ve been using Snapchat for over a half a year now (our original review here), so when Facebook released Poke, a similar service, I wasn’t sure it was even worth trying to get into, but what I’ve discovered may have changed my mind. Here’s the truth on which is better from a user of both. Both Poke and...

Why Facebook Should Hire Teenage Girls

Facebook often seems to be playing catch-up. They released Poke, a video-communication app similar to Snapchat just days ago, and they payed nearly a billion dollars for popular Photo-Sharing app instagram. What do these apps have in common besides the use of the camera? A large portion of their original users were teenage girls. Their biggest partner, Zynga wasted hundreds of millions to buy...