embora ainda me enrole sobremaneira com o facebook, tenho-o acessado com cada vez mais freqüência - graças à crescente quantidade de amigos que o elegeram como rede social primária.
a parte boa é que finalmente meus contatos gringos estão novamente ao meu alcance (como sabemos, o orkut é basicamente brasileiro e indiano); a parte ruim é que o myspace anda sofrendo um bocado com a ascenção do facebook e está reestruturando seus escritórios dos países onde têm perdido internautas para o face: argentina, brasil, canadá, frança, índia, itália, méxico, rússia, suécia e espanha.
myspace's growth has been stagnating for quite some time now. worldwide monthly page views for myspace declined from 47.4 billion a year ago to 38 billion in april, a 20% drop. in that same period facebook grew from 44 billion to 87 billion, a roughly 100% increase. myspace's user number growth has stalled out also, and developers are reporting that activity on myspace is decreasing at a dramatic rate, as high as "half a percent a week." and in our most recent model of the true value of social networks, myspace fell below facebook, dropping from the top spot last year.
things aren't going to get prettier for myspace anytime soon. as michael arrington wrote in may, myspace will receive its last "welfare payment" from google (thanks to an advertising deal between news corp. and google struck in 2006), in 2010 and then it will be cut off. under the terms of the agreement, myspace will receive $300 million over the next year if the network makes certain search page view requirements.when the deal is over, myspace will have a social network that costs half a billion dollars a year to run. but as shown above, page views are decreasing and with google's yearly infusions of money gone there is a strong likelihood that the news corp. subsidiary will be unprofitable a year from now, even with all of these cuts. it appears that van natta is using the layoffs to trim expenses but we estimate 720 total worldwide layoffs would only amount to about $7 to 8 million in monthly expenses (assuming $11K per head, including payroll, benefits and overhead).
myspace could lay off its entire staff and still not be profitable.
meus amigos músicos e djs devem estar lívidos. o myspace é uma imensa mão na roda para milhões de artistas performáticos no mundo todo - sem contar com as páginas pessoais. eu mesma tenho uma para as cool.agens. mas meu maior triunfo na esfera do myspace foi poder trocar palavrinhas com o grande ross daly, meu ídolo absoluto em música da ásia menor que havia uns quatro anos eu catava pela internet, sem sucesso.
via tech crunch.
