James Osborn

Writing Web From a Business Angle

Tag archive for ‘MySpace’

Remember Old-School Social Networking?

Remember FriendsReunited? Back in 2000 the UK spin-off of ‘Classmates.com’  in many ways laid the foundation of today’s biggest sites. It had a business model, a growth rate to rival that of Twitter and even made a profit of £22 million in 2007 – something Facebook and MySpace are still struggling to do.  So what [...]

Future Homogenisation of Social Networking — Updated 25th Feb

Social networking is a business dominated by trends. There was Bebo, MySpace and now there is Facebook. As Facebook becomes more and more mainstream (as I write it is ranks as the 8th most visited site in the world  and its growth is outstripping MySpace ) people are already beginning to wonder what the next [...]