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What are the characteristics of a platform, how do you build it, and how does it succeed? Author and Platform Thinking Labs founder Sangeet Paul Choudary shares his insights.

After originally partnering with News Corp to launch Myspace Japan back in 2006, Softbank is now giving up on that joint venture says Reuters, quoting a Nikkei report. While Myspace

News. Corp. has talked to several parties including China’s Tencent, Vevo, Myspace co-founder Chris DeWolfe, and other private equity firms on a possible deal to sell Myspace according to The

The battle between MySpace and Facebook for social-network dominance was long over. Facebook won and MySpace needed a new direction to stay competitive. You have probably heard by now that

It’s probably no surprise that the consensuses are aware that more advertisers are shifting their attention from traditional media to new media to keep up with changing consumer habits. A

A recent research involving U.S college students from Anderson Analytics revealed that “Facebook is cool and other social sites are lame.” A significant percentage of college students (both male and

A couple of days ago, we reported that Facebook’s traffic grew while Twitter remained stagnant. Since then, we were pretty curious how the other social sites were performing, namely Digg,

For those who didn’t catch Twitter’s trending topics today, you might be curious about what these numbers mean. Anyone guessing median age? That would be right! The numbers represent the

Twitter’s explosive growth has taken the limelight off Facebook this year. If I was Facebook, I probably wouldn’t mind. Reaching 300 million active users and having a chance to frog

There are many ways to update our Twitter profile and today, it just got more convenient as Twitter is now integrated with MySpace, AIM, Bebo, and AOL.com. According to co-founder