Posts Tagged ‘rise’

This Is Why Myspace Fell Apart – The Business Insider

Myspace was poised to dominate the world. Then, suddenly, it wasn’t. Felix Gillette ‘s cover story in Bloomberg BusinessWeek explains why. He offers a long hard look at the rapid rise and dramatic decline of the site, concluding that the reasons involve …

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Facebook finally plateaus in 2011! – DISCOVER

I’ve been using Google Trends to track the rise of Facebook and the fall of MySpace for years. To my surprise Facebook has kept ascending up the Google search traffic for years past when I thought it would hit diminishing marginal returns of mind-share …

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Myspace’s unhappy New Year amid layoff rumors – USA Today

Myspace’s 1,100 employees are bracing for a layoff that could slash half its workforce. Sources close to the sagging social-networking company, which has been battered by the meteoric rise of one-time rival Facebook, say the cutbacks are imminent but had …

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10 Reasons Social Media isn’t Replacing Email

Update: VerticalResponse CEO Janine Popick has written a separate piece adding 10 more reasons.

Original Article: The Wall Street Journal just ran a piece about the evolution of communication technology, chronicling the rise and alleged fall of email to social media. "Email no longer rules," the title reads.

Do you agree that email no longer rules? Tell us why or why not.