Posts Tagged ‘myspace’

Nipping at our heels… time to raise our game

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

HootSuite is integrating with Foursquare and MySpace.  Hadn’t considered FourSquare, but might make sense.  I haven’t been hugely interested in the product itself.  But we did integrate MySpace a few weeks ago and we have always integrated with Wordpress.

Ben Parr  

Today at the #140tc Twitter Conference in Seattle, Washington (which I keynoted this morning), HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes announced that its popular Twitter application will be integrating with both MySpace and Foursquare, starting this week at the South by Southwest Interactive conference.

HootSuite is one of the more popular Twitter applications, one specifically geared towards power users and businesses. It has been on a roll recently, launching integration with Wordpress and rolling out new updates to its iPhone and Android Apps.

Well, game on then.  Our product still kicks theirs to the curb…

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Facebook spam or do they really like me…

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Seems the past few days I have been hounded by Facebook spam, and not just the type from Farmville or Mafia wars requiring more manure or glocks (am I even saying that right).  Back in the day, MySpace and Friendster both didn’t have any of this… then it was all they had (but I sure thought all those friendly ladies were really interested in me, especially when my only photo was a picture of the earth from space).  In my view, the spambots were the start of the end for those sites.  Now, Facebook seems to be catching them relatively quickly, so maybe they can prevent the takeover.  But I wonder how much of their growth is real and what the spambots will do to the current user base.

Oh and sorry for the spotty posting.

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