MySpace Looks to Videogames to Take on Facebook
MySpace Looks to Videogames to Take on Facebook
Posted 07/24/2009 at 9:48am
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As more users flock to Facebook, MySpace owner News Corp sees a need to shake its social networking site up, and it plans to do that by transforming the social playground into a bigger online gaming platform. Johathan Miller, News Corp's head honcho, hopes the move will inspire videogame suppliers to use MySpace's data to develop better games and then launch those apps on the site.
"MySpace is and will be more in the future a gaming platform, a space for people to meet and play games," Miller said at the Fortune Brainstorm: TECH conference in Pasadena, California.
Whether or not the gamble on gaming works, MySpace is need of a change if it is to stay relevant. According to comScore, Facebook recorded 307 million unique visitors in April, compared to less than 125 million for MySpace. And further underscoring the divide between the two social networking sites, Facebook last month passed MySpace's peak number of unique monthly users in the U.S., 76.3 million, which was set back in October 2008, Reuters reports.
"If you look at the big activities online, games right now is number three," Miller added. "Communications, search, games. So it's clearly going to be a major focus."
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bingojubes
July 24, 2009 at 2:19pm
i tired Mafia Wars, but was seriously unimpressed. ther just wasn't much to do besides spam BUY and JOB buttons until it either crashed the browser or i ran out of energy points. if only mafa wars earnings could be converted to real money, i would probably cash out today. i moved onto facebook, but i think now facebook has mafia wars and similar games of that sort, so i don't know what the future will hold for either connection services.
I Jedi
July 24, 2009 at 1:48pm
For some gut-feeling reason I feel that MySpace will never get back its former glory that it once held for years. Facebook is just the "new" thing and MySpace is a dying dinosaur.
TechJunkie
July 24, 2009 at 11:28am
OOOH lookie!! It's the Myface and spacebook wars!! I wonder when they are going to start wearing colors and meet up in the desert southwest for an all out brawl!!! lol
that's my friend! NO MINE! You can't have her!! I already have!!! NOOOO MINE!!!!! Stop MESSAGING HER!!!1 AAAAAAHHHHHHRRRRRGGGGG!!!!
This is getting rediculous. They are social networking sites for gawd's sakes!!!
Defiant
July 24, 2009 at 11:56am
You write in the same mannor of a typical Myspace/Facebook user, I
don't see why you are complaining. You found a group that you fit
perfectly into..
TechJunkie
July 24, 2009 at 2:51pm
Well, I don't belong to either. So, go blow a balloon moron. I was just trying to be funny.
Defiant
July 24, 2009 at 9:59pm
I would rather not blow anything, perhaps you prefer that?
Anyways, I perfer to rain on your unfunny parade of CAPS LOCK.
TechJunkie
July 25, 2009 at 3:24am
Did I hit home with my comment? Did you lose your GF/wife to a myface/spacebook user?
caps lock, yeah and? your point please? If that really bothers you or its that your using a 2" screen, i suggest you buy a PC without that feature. I have it and will use it when I feel it deemed nesessary!
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