Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Social Networks Are Facing Revenue Problems...

Whether you use Facebook, Twitter or MySpace, you might be losing your favorite social network according to Haymarket Media, the global media watchdog. Unless the social nets start charging premium rates for ad space, they may not survive. Instead of flooding their own networks with ads, media experts suggest looking elsewhere to advertise. Richard Absalom, consumer technology analyst at Business Insights says that streams of ads on social networks were turning users off. His suggestion? Including in-game advertising, offering virtual gifts and creating user groups and advertising around premium video content. In other words do what radio used to do successfully - entertaining its audience...

Social networks may be in financial trouble but usage has not slacked off except for MySpace. Although still more popular globally than Facebook or Twitter, MySpace is losing users. Here in the U.S., Facebook has about 6 times as many users as Twitter and who uses MySpace???

Social networks will either figure out how to stay financially solvent or one of them will fold, to be replaced with a more creative one. Socializing on the internet is out of the bottle forever. Why is it taking radio so long to embrace it? Even television is doing a better job of using it than radio. That's embarrassing...
10 Timeline Memories:

1.1626] In a New York City Minuit: Dutch explorer Peter Minuit lands on what is now Manhattan...
2.1904] Wedding bells: Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce in Manchester, England. Over one hundred years later this is the result of their marriage...
3.1927] Here comes Oscar: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded. This is their website...
4.1932] Big Al is slammed: Mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence in Atlanta for tax evasion...
5.1946] Riot at The Rock: A 2-day riot at Alcatraz ends after 5 people are killed...
6.1953] Papa picks up his prize: Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man And The Sea...
7.1970] Four dead in O-hi-o: Four die and 9 others are wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen in the tragedy at Kent State. The girl (Mary Ann Vecchio) standing over one of the wounded students was not a student but a runaway. John Filo, a photojournalism student wins a Pulitzer Prize for that photo...
8.1998] Guilty as charged: Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski is given four life sentences plus 30 years by a federal judge in Sacramento (CA), under a plea agreement that spares him the death penalty...2006] A federal judge sentences Zacarias Moussaoui to life in prison for his role in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks...
9.2001] Murder and acquittal in Hollywood: Bonny Lee Bakley, wife of Robert Blake is shot to death in Los Angeles. Blake will be acquitted of the murder...
10.2007] Gotcha:A judge in Los Angeles sentences Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case by driving with a suspended license. Hilton serves three weeks.

Music Memories:

"Happy Birthday...happy birthday":

Lance Bass (31), Randy Travis (51), Pia Zadora (56), Peggy (Angels) Santiglia (66), Nick Ashford (68), George Will (69), Surf-guitar legend Dick Dale (born in Quincy, MA - go figure) (73) and Roberta Peters (80)...

Timeline Countdown: One day until Cinco de Mayo, 5 days until Mother's Day, 27 days until Memorial Day, 47 days until Father's Day and 48 days until Summer...

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