...the website. Within 10 days, the first version of Myspace was ready for launch, implemented usingColdFusion.[15][21] A complete infrastructure of finance, human resources, technical expertise, bandwidth, and server capacity was available for the site. The project was overseen by Brad Greenspan (eUniverse's Founder, Chairman, CEO), who managed Chris DeWolfe (MySpace's starting CEO), Josh Berman, Tom Anderson (MySpace's starting president), and a team of programmers and resources provided by eUniverse. Myspace quickly gained popularity among teenage and young adult social groups. In February 2005, DeWolfe held talks with Mark Zuckerberg over acquiring Facebook but DeWolfe rejected Zuckerberg's $75 million asking price. Some employees of Myspace, including DeWolfe and Berman, were able to purchase equity in the property before MySpace and its parent company eUniverse (now renamedIntermix Media) was bought. In July 2005, in one of the company's first major Internet purchases, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation (the parent company of Fox Broadcasting and other media enterprises) purchased Myspace for US$580 million. News Corporation had beat out Viacom by offering a higher price for the website,] and the purchase was seen as a good investment at the time. Of the $580 million purchase price, approximately $327 million has been attributed to the value of Myspace according to the financial adviser fairness opinion.Within a year, Myspace had tripled in value from its purchase price. News...
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...something unique to that particular social networking website.” It became a new lifestyle for the new generation. Facebook the most popular social networking site with more than 150 million users competes with Myspace that caters to the youth and Linkedln for the adult and professionals. The real competition for Facebook is the microblogging site, Twitter. Both Twitter, with its 6 million users and Facebook shares the same mission and some features in common yet on a different platform seems to be embarked on a collision course. The focus of this paper is to define how both of the organization adapts to a fast pace technological advancement, the similarities and differences of Facebook and Twitter and to understand how they employ strategies in decision making to cope with changes in technological and social factors. Validate the “how competitive forces shapes strategy”, according to Pearce and Robinson (2011, p.91). Facebook and the Competition Before Facebook became popular, Friendster, a social networking website started its operations in 2002 with 3 million users in only 3 months. Myspace and Linkedln were launched in 2003. Facebook debut in 2004 caters to college students which look like to mimic Friendster’s platform, and during this year, Myspace overtook Friendster in website visit and subsequently became the no.1 social...
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...Internet. It started out simply as email and instant messaging. This has been around for over ten years. Though an advanced form is in the works. It is people communicating by means of Web 2.0. Web 2.0, is the name for the massive forms of new communication of Myspace, Facebook, and other Social Networking Sites. People go on these sites, not just teens anymore, and interact with fellow networkers. It might have been cute and nice in the beginning but now some are getting addicted and living in these worlds that are technically extensions and some are even fantasy such a Secondlife.com Now I could write for months about these topics and sites but I would like to narrow it down to two websites on one topic. This is an informal paper in the sense that its methodology wouldn’t bode well with those of the social sciences. Also, I took surveys and they weren’t all random so from a statistical standpoint it is not a true sample. At the same time, I feel those I have chosen are from a wide range of “Myspace and Facebook backgrounds” though in this paper I generally found that Myspace has been eliminated among my social peers and is almost obselete. Though it still has credence. Alot can be explained why Myspace has failed among my peers when compared to Facebook. I and most of my peers fit the hegemonic group she explains(Boyd 2007). I asked seven questions to my subjects and there were also follow up questions when those who were interviewed gave answers that provoked me...
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...Strategic Management (Semester A) (3BUS0118) Module Leader: Keith Seed Words Account: Report (3838), Appendix (2092) Group Members: Jian Feng Ding (08199930) Long Cheng (08198940) Lin Xu Zhen Xu (08201511) Qi Hua Jiang (08199004) Date: 10/12/2009 CONTENTS TITLE 1 TABLE CONTENTS 2 INTRODUCTION 3 MAIN BODY PART 1--- CURRENT ISSUES PESTEL framework 4 PART 2--- CHALLENGES & COMPETITION POTER’S five forces 6 SWOT analysis 10 Corporate governance in the Myspace.com PLC 10 Accountability to Stakeholders 11 Corporate Social Responsibility PART 3--- STRATEGIC CAPABILITY Foundation of Strategic Capability 11 Resource and Competence 11 Human Resource Management 12 Cost Efficiency 12 Value Chain 13 CONCLUSION ...
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...indent 5-7 spaces; then one inch margins all around; enter content> Selected Solution to the Problem <start here and indent 5-7 spaces; then one inch margins all around; enter content> Implementation <start here and indent 5-7 spaces; then one inch margins all around; enter content> Recommendations <start here and indent 5-7 spaces; then one inch margins all around; enter content> Conclusion <start here and indent 5-7 spaces; then one inch margins all around; enter content> REFERENCES APPENDIX Case 1 Facebook vs. Twitter: The Coming Facebook-Twitter Collision 1 Every time monthly Web traffic numbers are released, you can expect at least a half-dozen blogs to run a graph showing Facebook gaining on MySpace in some made-up social media war. And as more “adults” join Facebook, 1 the more likely you are to hear about Facebook...
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...have affected today’s world? I) The 90’s, a new communication way is born (1990-2001) a) Internet and the firsts social medias (1990-1997) b) The expansion of the market (1997-2001) jlb II) Web 2.0: a new influence for social medias (2002-2010) a) The booming market b) A new kind of addiction III) Social media: a revolutionary marketing tool a) Companies and politics b) Conclusion I) The 90’s, a new communication way is born (1990-2001) a) Internet and the firsts social medias (1990-1997) If we are speaking about social Medias we must deal with the enhancement of technologies. Effectively, social Medias can’t exist without the creation and the publication of internet, that’s why social networks are affecting today’s world. But what is a social media? Social media is a web site or a platform allowing all users to publish data in purpose of sharing with other people. It can be messages, photos, videos, wikis etc… Nowadays, there are millions of social media users, so the question is how it all began? This global phenomenon was created in USA just after the publication of the internet during the early 90’s. Usually people assimilate social media by the development of web 2.0, but the first websites was founded before 2003 (creation of the term “web 2.0”). Indeed, in 1988 AOL created a new kind of social platform and in 1995, the network of Classemates.com is launched, however they had obviously not all the possibilities...
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...E-Business Technologies The affects of the iPod on music industry Table of Contents Section 1: Introduction Page 4 Section 2: Technology Adoption Page 4 Section 3: Value Chain Page 5 Section 4: Relationships Page 6 Section 5: Conclusion Page 7 Section 6: References Page 7 Introduction The purpose of this report is to discuss the functions and features of Apple’s innovative MP3 player. I will be relating to the Schumpeterian model, as to how the iPod led to rapid mainstream adoption, whilst similar products failed. I will also consider the opportunities which promoted this device and the challenges that the Apple iPod currently face, highlighting the effects on the traditional music industry value chain, compared to the current value chain. In addition, I will discuss how the iPod developed working relationships which has assisted in Apple’s e-business success. I will then finish by concluding my findings. Technology Adoption The Schumpeterian model looks at the relationship between technological innovation and business activity. According to Perez (2002) there are five typical stages of each wave, which I will briefly describe. Irruption The Apple iPod was launched in 2001, a sleek and stylish MP3 player with an easy user interface, compressing digital audio files the iPod holds up to 1,000 songs...
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...cupcakes, fondue, deep-fried everything, space aged snacks, gelatin, bacon, TV dinner, and low or no carbs (Ronca, 1998-2014). These are just a few of the different ones over the years. In the early 1990’s there was a marketing fad offering clarity with purity. Some of the companies involved just to name a few are Miller Brewing Company (March 1993), Coors Brewing Company (1992), Procter and Gamble and Colgate-Palmolive (Failed Product Report: Crystal Pepsi, 2014). Pepsi Company (PepsiCo) was part of the marketing fad when it released Crystal Pepsi. Crystal Pepsi was colorless cola with 100% natural flavor with no preservations and no caffeine (Failed Product Report: Crystal Pepsi, 2014). It had a lighter tasted than regular Pepsi. The cola came in regular and diet. Pepsi remove the cameral color out of the cola in doing so it made consumer think that it was healthier to drink. It started for the product begin in the early 1990’s. Before it released in 1992 Pepsi had test markets in Denver, Sacramento, Dallas and Providence with a positive response (Failed Product Report: Crystal Pepsi, 2014). Test markets were hold for nine months in these cities. It launch...
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...professionals whom it served, could not stand still. He had arrived at the company in February 2007, and since then LinkedIn had launched a European-based operation, opened up its platform to third-party software developers, and increased its head count from 60 to 310.4 A mere half-decade after its founding, the company had already turned profitable, and it was on track to bring in revenues of $75 million to $100 million in 2008.5 Now, in mid-2008, LinkedIn signaled that it was moving aggressively into a new business area: Nye announced that several products designed for enterprise customers would soon hit the market.6 “Millions of professionals have discovered the power of LinkedIn,” he said. “Now we are seeing that corporations understand why they should want their employees...
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...Table of Contents Spanierman v. Hughes ……………………………………………………………………………………………. New Jersey v. T.L.O. ………………………………………………………………………………………………. Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier ……………………………………………………………….. Christensen v. Royal School District No. 160 ………………………………………………………….. References and Works Cited ……………………………………………………………………………….. Spanierman v. Hughes, 576 F. Supp. 2d. 292. (D. Conn. 2008) Jeffrey Spanierman, a teacher at Emmett O’Brien High School in Ansonia, Connecticut, created a MySpace page for the purpose of communicating with his students regarding homework, learn more about the student’s personal interest and to conduct casual, non-school related discussions. (Neuberger, 2008) A colleague visited the page and was concerned with some of the content---pictures of nude men captioned with inappropriate comments and personal conversations between Mr. Spanierman and the students. The colleague spoke to Spanierman and convinced him to remove the page arguing that it was disruptive to students. Spanierman complied, but went on to create a new profile page with similar content. The colleague learned of the new page and immediately reported her findings to the school administration. The administration went on to place Spanierman on administrative leave and ultimately declined his teaching contract for the upcoming school term. (Neuberger, 2008) In the case of Spanierman v. Hughes, 576 F. Supp. 2d, 292, the Plantiff, Jeffrey...
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...so that it could eliminate cases whereby an individual is tried using their clothing, sexual behavior or attitude showed in the past. However, the application of this law varies from one state to another. There some states that require that the rape complaint to have taken place with a specified time (Spohn & Horney, 2013). This difference results from the fact that states apply the ‘fresh complaint’ doctrine in different ways. A fresh complain is one in which the complainant reasonably, promptly and voluntarily makes the complaint once the sexual abuse has taken place. Why States have Enacted Rape Shield Laws Rape shield laws have been passed in most of the states so as to ensure that rape victims are protected from psychological and emotional trauma that could result from their narration of their sexual history while in the witness stand. There are several cases where rape victims have failed to report and pursue such charges due to their fear of humiliation. The rape shield laws enacted in these states serve three principal purposes. First, they prohibit the release of evidence on the sexual reputation of the complainant (Hilsheimer, 2009). This is one of the ways through which the laws protect and safeguard the privacy of the complainant. They ensure that the complainant is not intimidated using their past sexual history and records. The second...
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...of Form Abstract Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This special theme section of theJournal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together scholarship on these emergent phenomena. In this introductory article, we describe features of SNSs and propose a comprehensive definition. We then present one perspective on the history of such sites, discussing key changes and developments. After briefly summarizing existing scholarship concerning SNSs, we discuss the articles in this special section and conclude with considerations for future research. Introduction Since their introduction, social network sites (SNSs) such as MySpace, Facebook, Cyworld, and Bebo have attracted millions of users, many of whom have integrated these sites into their daily practices. As of this writing, there are hundreds of SNSs, with various technological affordances, supporting a wide range of interests and practices. While their key technological features are fairly consistent, the cultures that emerge around SNSs are varied. Most sites support the maintenance of pre-existing social networks, but others help strangers connect based on shared interests, political views, or activities. Some sites cater to diverse audiences, while others attract people based on common language or shared racial, sexual, religious, or nationality-based identities. Sites also vary in the extent to which they...
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...people link to each other via email addresses. In the late 1990s, user profiles became a central feature of social networking sites, allowing users to compile lists of "friends" and search for other users with similar interests. New social networking methods were developed by the end of the 1990s, and many sites began to develop more advanced features for users to find and manage friends.[12] This newer generation of social networking sites began to flourish with the emergence of SixDegrees.com in 1997,[13] followed by Makeoutclub in 2000,[14][15] Hub Culture and Friendster in 2002,[16] and soon became part of the Internet mainstream. Friendster was followed by MySpace and LinkedIn a year later, and eventually Bebo. Attesting to the rapid increase in social networking sites' popularity, by 2005, it was reported that MySpace was getting more page views than Google....
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...Our updated Terms of Use will become effective on May 25, 2012. Find out more. Social networking service From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the type of service. For the concept of relationships between people, see Social network. For a list of services, see List of social networking websites. A social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on facilitating the building of social networks or social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections. A social network service consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network services are web-based and provide means for users to interact over the Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. Online community services are sometimes considered as a social network service, though in a broader sense, social network service usually means an individual-centered service whereas online community services are group-centered. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks. The main types of social networking services are those that contain category places (such as former school year or classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages), and a recommendation system linked to trust. Popular methods now combine...
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...First mover vs. late mover theory Carzadean Lawton MGT-680 Strategic Management Dr. Leland Taylor July 14, 2013 Abstract There have been companies that have been successful at being the first to develop a new product and put it out before their competitors have a chance to copy. Some companies have proven that being the first is not always the best and the last sometimes has its perks but being last can also have its failures as well. In this report, we will analysis the advantages and disadvantages of both the first and late mover theory along with the pros and cons of the advantages and disadvantages. After the advantages and disadvantages are provided, an example of real firms who have been successful and those who have failed using each theory. Finally, a definitive and unbiased recommendation of which theory to use will be provided as well as specific attributes which constitute the most advantageous context in which the chosen theory operates. Introduction Companies today are very competitive when it comes to development of new products and putting them out in the limelight for consumer purchase. The number one question that should be asked before a company puts a product out in the market would be is following the first-mover theory an effective way to build new business or would creating a new version of the products with the later-mover theory be a better way to build a new business? First let’s define these specific theories. The first-mover theory is...
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