I've been blogging quite a bit recently about Facebook and MySpace so I thought that before I post some new links, I'd recap the discussion that has already been going on:
- The ebb and flow of social networking (9 June) sets the scene.
- Deconstructing Facebook (16 June) looks at the potential of the Facebook Platform.
- Watch out MySpace, Yahoo and Google (24 June) confirms the rise and rise of Facebook in recent times.
- MySpace versus Facebook ... again (25 June) considers the arguments over the demographics of the two social networking sites.
- Watch out Google here comes Facebook (10 July) has some people looking ahead, assuming Facebook has already defeated MySpace.
This week the Facebook and MySpace has rivalry been analysed in a little more depth ...
MySpace Concedes: Facebook Does it Better from Mashable (by Pete Cashmere)
"MySpace, although still much larger than rival Facebook, seems to have conceded that Facebook’s new platform strategy is a good one. MySpace already lets developers create Flash widgets for the site, but co-founder Chris DeWolfe is quoted in the FT saying “The [Facebook] platform is interesting…We’ll probably offer users the choice of both.” In other words: perhaps a MySpace API in addition to the widget embedding."
MySpace - Still The King from TechCrunch (by Michael Arrington)
"I can imagine that all the Facebook hype is a little annoying to MySpace - which is still the largest site on the Internet. That may be some of the motivation behind the press release going out Thursday morning saying, effectively, that they are still the King of Social Networking.
And they have some facts to back it up. MySpace is the largest site on the Internet in terms of page views, at around 46 billion per month (Facebook is around 15 billion and actually dropped about 1 billion between May and June). Nearly 25 million people visit MySpace daily (about 3x Facebook’s numbers), and just over 70 million people in the U.S. visit the site every month."
See also MySpace Concedes: Facebook Does it Better from Mashable (by Pete Cashmere)
And on a slightly different, but perhaps more important note see Facebook's Advertising Woes Reminiscent Of MySpace from Techdirt (by Joe Weisenthal).
So, the battle is far from over ...
