It seems as though Myspace is trying to get their music product back on track and at the center of this is a new product called Wildfire. Myspace are testing their new Wildfire product, which aims to help bands control all of their social networks.

MySpace Music vice president of Product Roberto Fisher, who shared preliminary details at a meeting held Saturday by the Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association (MEIEA) in Los Angeles.  ”Are you aware of the people that are most valuable to you in social media marketing, to help amplify what you do?” Fisher posed.  ”Wildfire is designed to help you understand the tree of engagement that happens in the time that someone does something.  So, we can pinpoint in any tree of distribution the people that gave you the most reach when they heard something and re-amplified it.”

So, it’s “where in the trees you should invest,” instead of burning the whole tree with a blowtorch, according to Fisher, which sounds like a refreshingly targeted idea.  But this involves a lot of close observation, on a massive scale.  Accordingly, MySpace is essentially ‘wiring every single action’ that happens in the social networking sphere as it relates to artists, and then assigning scores to the most valuable ‘branches of the tree.’  ”You can score it all,” Fisher described.  ”I can tell you if user A is more valuable than user B.  And when you did X, these are the things that caused Y to happen.”

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Pingdom has put together some great numbers which outlines 29 social networks that have over 1 million visitors per day. For traffic data, they used Google Trends for Websites.

Note that these numbers are estimates made by Google from a variety of data sources, so they will not be 100% correct, but should still give us a good idea of how the sites compare.

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Honestly I’m not quite convinced about all the “Facebook” included in this model, sounds a bit too much. On the inside they’ve also included the following “Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you” and “Making the world open and connected”.

The Twitter model seems a bit better; they’ve included the Twitter bird logo and the original color used by the micro-blogging web app.

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SplitTweet is a simple and free web app which will provide you a single place to handle several Twitter accounts with all the necessary information of each: Replies, direct messages, favorites and the most important one brand mentions features, which experts in social media can use it to monitor the behavior and popularity of their brands.

SplitTweet also provides a simple dashboard where you can monitor all the important activity around your accounts. Another important feature of this web app is the possibility to automatically tweet the same in several accounts.

It also have a Desktop App for Mac.

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Facebook is making a large impact in the world, no news there; social networks and sociability is changing, also the market and possibilities around there. Windows Live Messenger had a big impact a while ago because the popularity of Facebook: People prefer the Facebook chat instead of using Microsoft’s application.

Envolve offers the service to use in your site similar chat functionalities used in Facebook for your visitors. Even more, Envolve service delivers also some extra functionality we don’t find specifically in Facebook’s chat:

• Real-time translation. For chatting with people in a different language.
• Shareable chats. Each chat has a custom short URL. Friends and followers can use it to join in or view the chat later.
• Statistics. View real-time statistics and read old chats that have occured on your website.
• Private and public chats.
• Drag-n-drop. To invite another user to a chat — public or private — simply drag-and-drop their name or picture into the desired chat window.

As we said, this is a service provided for Envolve and no, it is not free. The pricing depends on how many visitors currently have: Starts with a “basic” plan at U$S7 per month (up to 5K visitor per month); and the “platinum” plan at U$S89 per month (handling over 100K visitors).

More info about pricing here.

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(The site contains an animated image showing the report, which does not work with IE)

Should not surprise us that the largest social network site ever gets a lot of attention when there are some changes in their usability and how the information or content is displayed in the Internet; after all Facebook represents the identity of millions today, not only people but companies as well.

The report basically takes the changes introduced over the years in the default privacy settings for Facebook user’s personal information and Facebook Terms of Service. The type of “personal data” analyzed here are: likes, name, picture, gender, birthday, friends, networks, wall posts, photos and extended information (like school, college, family members, etc).

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• Facebook: Social Media by Numbers – February 8, 2010
• Social Media Revolution – September 6, 2009

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The complete study took 10 different countries around the globe, and the main reason for organization to block any of these applications or tools reside in security matters or in the “lack of education with these tools”.

But that’s not all, the study also shows that around 50% of the users actually ignore company policy and 27% of those admit that they usually get a workaround by changing some settings to get access to those sites and applications (I’m pretty sure that the 27% is a lot bigger).

Around 2023 users and 1021 IT administrators and decision makers completed this research.

What about your company? Do they block some content or applications to end-users?

• Facebook-like Chats in your Website – July 24, 2010
• The Evolution of Facebook Privacy – May 12, 2010
• Bizarre Stats: More Facebook Users, More Sexually-Transmitted Diseases – March 25, 2010
• Facebook: Social Media by Numbers – February 8, 2010
• Social Media Revolution – September 6, 2009

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“Social networking sites are making it easier for people to meet up for casual sex.” says Professor Peter Kelly, director of public health in Teesside. The study remarks that one of the diseases that increased lately in this area (Sunderland, Durham and Teesside) is syphilis. Professor Kelly said “Syphilis is a devastating disease. Anyone who has unprotected sex with casual partners is at high risk. There has been a fourfold increase in the number of syphilis cases detected with more young women being affected.”

The particularity of this area is that, shown in the report, people that live there are 25% more likely to use social networking sites that the rest in Britain.

Ok, I can see some kind of link between social networking sites and having “casual sex”, but still the decision for people to meet strangers and not having the necessary sexual precautions, still is a matter of the people involved and not the actual site.

• Facebook-like Chats in your Website – July 24, 2010
• The Evolution of Facebook Privacy – May 12, 2010
• Social Networks: Blocked by 52% of IT Administrators – April 10, 2010
• Facebook: Social Media by Numbers – February 8, 2010
• Social Media Revolution – September 6, 2009

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Facebook has announced that it now has 400 million active users. Just one year ago Facebook had 150 million users, so 2009 was an incredible year for the social media giant.

There can be no doubt that Facebook is pretty much unstoppable at the moment, a real juggernaut.

• Official Google Social Network: Google+: Facebook Competitor – June 29, 2011
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• Facebook-like Chats in your Website – July 24, 2010
• Skinbook: The Nude Social Network – June 3, 2010

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Most recently I came across the Sony Dash, which is another device that, like the Chumby, offer a bevy of internet services and multiple uses. The device can access the internet to show stream audio, video, check your social networks, work as a photo album, and and even give you the weather. Sounds pretty savvy, but like the Chumby, I only have one question…why?

The Sony Dashy ($200) has a seven-inch screen, wi-fi, a USB port, stereo speakers, and full access to Sony Bravia’s Internet video platform (Pandora, Youtube), and some 100o apps from the Chumby library. So apparently there’s some cross connection between the two devices.

Sony Dash is wi-fi enabled device that offers you connectivity to information on the internet.

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Seesmic acquires Ping.fm

One million posts a day you say? Very possible now that Seesmic has acquired Ping.fm. Personally it was a shock, I’m not privy to Silicon Valley chatter, but I think for most Seesmic Desktop users, this will offer a bevy of updating options. At last count there were over 50 sites that Ping.fm updated, and now Seesmic Desktop will harness this power. But this is just the top of iceberg. With some further API development and plug-in updates, this positions Seesmic closer to their goal of one million posts a day for 2010.

A huge congrats goes out to Loic Le Meur who not only acquired the application, but also the founding talent behind it, Adam Duffy and Sean McCollough who are now joining the Seesmic team full time. With talent like this in an already powerful application any other future goals seem like a no brainer when it comes to possibility of achieving. According to TechCrunch, Ping.fm boasts approximately 500,000 users with approximately 200,000 updates a day.

I’m interested to see how this plays out in the battle for social media supremacy. Currently Tweetdeck, which seemed to vie for the position of social media go-to app, will be left in the dust once Seesmic integrates the updating power of Ping.fm. Currently Tweetdeck updates, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and LinkedIn, a far cry from the 50 that Ping.fm reaches. Personally I’m a Tweetdeck user, but this acquisition could make me change my desktop app of choice.

• MySpace Assures imeem Users, Playlists Are Safe – December 22, 2009
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Personal search for your Twitter network.

Search is has been a big topic of discussion in 2009, and in 2010 is almost assuredly going to be a bigger deal as users look for ways to distill the internet’s wealth of information to more personal discoveries. Recently, with the surge of social networking, search has become an even more contested topic because the content created by the millions of users worldwide is not just prolific, but is being done daily. Real time search through your networks and contacts postings can be useful to discover what the pulse of your network really is. Unfortunately small steps have been made in this area, and as much as Search.Twitter.com is used, it’s still not giving you a personal search, but rather having you search the entire Twitter network.

One of the few personal Twitter searches is flocking.me. If you’ve got several hundred or several thousand friends in your network, you can erase the noise and focus on only the groups you want, for specific information. This is ideal if your’e looking for trends, industry news, or just looking to see what topics your friends think are hot button issues that you’d like to join in on. An interesting addition to this app is the ability to search your tweets via an interactive map. The map shows the location of the Tweeters and gives you a better understanding of the scope and range of your conversations as you span the globe seeing your search information pop up.

An added bonus is the ability to update your status straight from the site. Much like the Twitter homepage of old, you’ll need to refresh the page to see any of the updates on your profile or those that you’ve done a search for. While the concept is nice, I’m not sure how portable this application is. Mobility is key as we are all on the goal, so I’d like to see this concept put into a mobile app. There are a few out there that offer similar functionality, but nothing that I’ve seen with personal search like flocking.me.

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imeem playlists moving to MySpace Music

were nowhere to be found. MySpace’s acquisition is not responsible for imeem going away, as the suffering company would have surely gone the way of the dinosaur on its own, but rather, shutting off the API killed a lot of apps, desktop and mobile alike. The impact was felt the world over as no word was even given, no warning, not even an explanation was made at the time of this event.

Recently MySpace has done right with the imeem community by assuring them that their playlists are fine, and are simply being ported over to MySpace music playlists. While I’m not entirely sure of MySpace’s music porting capabilities, I’d have to assume this is not an overnight process. Nevertheless, MySpace’s imeem acknowledgement provides some comfort to avid imeem users, but little those that have already migrated to other platforms. The service’s dedicated fans were the most spurned by this transition in ownership, and perhaps MySpace’s assurance comes too little too late.

In the announcement MySpace encourages users to use the existing music service provided by said company while the transition is taking place. It states it has the largest licensed digital catalog of music, hoping to lighten the blow even more, but for some of us, MySpace is not a site we thought of when we thought of music. Will the acquisition of imeem, will this change? Should be interesting to see the response once the imeem playlists have been brought over.

• Myspace Music Testing out Social Network Aggregation Tool – April 4, 2011
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• MySpace Music Launches – September 26, 2008
• History of Social Media – November 19, 2010
• How to Handle Several Twitter Accounts – September 19, 2010

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Well there thousands of those existential questions that you may or may not asked yourself, and there’s no need to get real philosophical about this, but we sure can be certain that those technologies, web apps and more have an important presence in most of our days.

About those presences, here’s a very interesting video about the facts of several of these social tools, technologies and media: “Social Media Revolution”

Here are some of the facts that caught my attention:

• Social media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the web
• 1 of 8 couples married in the US met via social media
• If Facebook were a country, it would be the world’s 4th largest
• TV took 13 years to reach 50 million users, Facebook took less than 9 months to reach 100 millions
• Ashton Kutcher has more Twitter followers than the entire population of Ireland, Norway and Panama
• 80% of Twitter usage is on mobile devices
• Wikipedia has over 13 million articles
• 80% of companies are using LinkedIn as their primary tool to find employees
• Only 18% of traditional TV campaigns generate a positive ROI
• 35% of books sales on Amazon are for Kindle

“Social media isn’t a fad; it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate”

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• Social Media Demographics – July 9, 2010

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It’s well-known that social networking sites and blogs have cost people their jobs because they said bad things about the company and they were discovered by chance on the web. That’s got to sting. But how about this girl who actually added her new boss on FaceBook and then decided she would virtually tear him to shreds?

Needless to say, she lost her job and perhaps rightfully so – I mean, how stupid do you have to be to do that? She might as well have sent him the link.

I’d imagine there either from the UK or the Republic of Ireland as these are the only two countries that use P45 forms when jobs get terminated.

Here what the post and the bosses reply said. (Obviously their names have been removed).

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However, when it comes to Web 2.0 they’re left quivering in their combat boots. The USMC has just announced that it is placing a network wide ban on Web 2.0 sites such as Twitter, MySpace and FaceBook in an effort to make their systems more secure.

They say that these sites are easily hacked and used by hackers and scammers and indeed those against US operations to post links to malicious sites in the hope a marine on R&R or a USMC staff member might click on them.

This would expose the soft underbelly of the USMC’s network and would lead to disaster. Here is what the USMC order read :

• “These internet sites in general are a proven haven for malicious actors and content and are particularly high risk due to information exposure, user generated content and targeting by adversaries…”
• “The very nature of SNS [social network sites] creates a larger attack and exploitation window, exposes unnecessary information to adversaries and provides an easy conduit for information leakage that puts OPSEC [operational security], COMSEC [communications security], [and] personnel… at an elevated risk of compromise.”

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The marketing strategy seems to start focusing in one big costumer: India. The MSN India home page is linking to this new social network site; and already is using a Scribble Pad feature same as Orkut (India’s favorite social network site); that actually works very similar as Facebook’s wall, where your friends can stop by and write something for you.

The usability is the same as any other social network. You don’t need to create an account, with your Passport (Hotmail or any other) will give you direct access to your profile. And the cool thing that I found so far, is the Windows Live Messenger integration with the site.

Still, it needs a lot of work and improvement to actually be considered as a Facebook competitor.

• Myspace Music Testing out Social Network Aggregation Tool – April 4, 2011
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He is quite sure that the real value from the web platform resides in multiple websites and applications across the Internet, and Facebook it’s not going to try to centralize all that; even better, Facebook will represent the entire platform that any user will need as for identification, business, relationship, etc. etc.

Here’s the interview with the whole concept that Mark gave it to Robert Scoble:

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Facebook

Meaning that whenever you want someone to visit your Facebook profile you don’t need to copy/paste that awful undescriptive URL, you will only need to choose an available name for you and your profile will be http://www.facebook.com/john.smith

This sounds like an option that could be published earlier, other important social networks already has this feature available (like Hi5). But anyway, it would represent a huge change for the network, making your profile easier to share; or even including the URL in your mail signature.

• Facebook’s Future: Not a Website – June 18, 2009
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• The Evolution of Facebook Privacy – May 12, 2010
• Social Networks: Blocked by 52% of IT Administrators – April 10, 2010
• Bizarre Stats: More Facebook Users, More Sexually-Transmitted Diseases – March 25, 2010

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• How to Handle Several Twitter Accounts – September 19, 2010
• Personal Search for Your Twitter Contacts – December 31, 2009
• Social Media Revolution – September 6, 2009
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• JP Morgan Didnt Invest in Twitter – March 3, 2011

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