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Social Spaces: Facebook versus MySpace versus Google Plus Team : Collyn, Robert, Pat, Martin Each Social Space discussed under the following headings Profile Gap-Identified Technology Employed Solutions and Sustainability Discussion

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Page 1: Social  Spaces :  Facebook  versus  MySpace  versus Google  Plus     Team : Collyn, Robert, Pat, Martin

• Social Spaces: Facebook versus MySpace versus Google Plus• Team : Collyn, Robert, Pat, Martin

Each Social Space discussed under the following headings• Profile • Gap-Identified• Technology Employed • Solutions and Sustainability• Discussion

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MySpace

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Introduction- company profilesFirstly...

MySpace

• My Space was started by a group of E-Universe employees in Los Angeles 2003

• At its peak MySpace had 16000 workers and had its 100 million subscribers in 2008.

Mission statement:Myspace, Inc. is a leading social entertainment destination powered by the passions of fans. Aimed at a Gen Y audience, Myspace drives social interaction by providing a highly personalised experience around entertainment and connecting people to the music, celebrities, TV, movies, and games that they love. These entertainment experiences are available through multiple platforms, including online, mobile devices, and offline events.

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Gap IdentifiedMySpace

• Anyone who visits MySpace can see relatively quickly that Music is important to its users. From the very beginning users would friend people with a similar tastes in music.

• Sharing your taste in music meant sharing videos of bands and friend bands pages

• At the time in 2003 paper magazines were popular, my space was perceived as an online rival to the magazine industry, with the additional features of videos and real time communication

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Technology EmployedMySpace

• Cold Fusion technology was employed for the main site

• Additional service for example

• (IM) Instant message , Karaoke were built in house

• Games were outsourced

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COMPETITORS

• Friendster

• Magazines

• Tribe.net

• Bebo

• Facebook

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SOLUTION

• A platform for new music /bands• Communication for like minded people

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SUSTAINABILITY

• News CORP (good riddance)• New Blood (Timberlake)• New Image, simple website

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Facebook

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Introduction- company profiles

Facebook• The brainchild of Mark Zuckerberg, a computer science and

psychology double major from Harvard,

• Facebook in his own words is “as much psychology and sociology as it is technology” (Larson, 2011).

• From humble beginnings of a dorm room start-up to the world’s most popular online social.

• Launched February 2004, as of February 2012 Facebook has more than 845 million active users

Mission Statement: “Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.”

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Gap IdentifiedFaceBook

Zuckerberg had already witnessed the demand for this new social space with his creations Coursematch and Facemash.

• Coursematch allowed users to choose the courses they would take based on who else was taking them

• Facemash allowed users to rate other Harvard student’s attractiveness

Why, how did it all come about?

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Technology EmployedFaceBook

• Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP with Memcache

• From 1 to over 10,000 servers scalability has always been an issue.

• The ethos behind open source software has not been lost by engineers within Facebook. They contribute to the open source community by working on projects like Apache Hadoop, Apache HBase, Cfengine, memcached, Varnish and PHP

Open Source Software

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Competitors

• Top social networking sites listed by Ebiz for February 2012; Linkedin, MySpace and Twitter are still well behind Facebook both by number of registered and active users.

• Facebook has been competing with Linkedin and MySpace for user’s attention since it started.

• Facebook overtook the worldwide figures of MySpace in 2008 but it took another two years to reach the top of the US figures

FaceBook

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SolutionFaceBook

Facebook differentiated itself from MySpace by only allowing college students to join at first, MySpace was open to all. The slow and steady pace of Facebook use in the college campuses across the US and Europe was a targeted approach

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ChallengesFaceBook

• Increase revenue from advertising without losing users

• Pushback from users over privacy concerns

• Control issues – Zuckerberg has too much power?

• Advertising spending and attention shifting to Google+(Listed in Facebooks IPO risks)

• New players in the “Socialverse”

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Google +

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Introduction- company profilesGoogle +

• Google Plus is the youngest of the three social networking sites.

• At eight months old, it claims a membership of 150,000,000 users.

or 90,000,000 …. or 60,000,000 ….

Mission Statement: “Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful”

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Gap Identified

Google needs to access the social networking marketWhy?

• To enhance its underlying search engine. Smart searching involves knowing your customer

• Google is in need of a successful social networking product.

After a succession of failures (Google Wave, Google Buzz, Orkut (big in Brazil), Google Groups)

• May be targeting an older age range

• While Facebook has been a phenomenal success, it has left many users disenchanted - for example privacy settings.

Google Plus+

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1: The server side code of Google Plus is written in Java.2: Java servlets have been used along with Guice framework.3: On the client side the code is mainly in JavaScript.4: Closure framework has been used to develop the UI. The templating system of Closure has been used widely to produce efficient Java and JavaScript code.5: HTML5 History API has been used to maintain pretty looking URLs although Google Plus is an AJAX web app. For older browsers with no support of HTML5 History APIs, hash fragments are used as a substitute.6: The back end data storage is supported by BigTable and Colossus/GFS. MapReduce is also used in the backend.

Technologies Used

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Facebook

LinkedIn

Twitter

MySpace

Skype

User Apathy

Backlash regarding privacy

Competitors

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• Due to the sheer size of Google, they can afford to stay around in the market.

• Appeal to a more mature audience (as per the Barack Obama hangout)

• Google has group video chat....Facebook doesn’t.

• As long as their search engine is a success, they have a captive audience.

Solutions

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SWOT AnalysisMySpace Facebook Google +

The Low down how many users have they got?

At its peak MySpace had 16000 workers and had its 100 million subscribers in 2008.

As of February 2012 Facebook has more than 845 million active users

At eight months old, it claims a membership of 150,000,000 users.

Strengths Oldest social space,Timberlake at its helm creates the cool factorMusic content is keeping its heart ticking good Niche market

Biggest subscribersMost well-known social networking site.

Money and financeFresh new image Hangout s and circles and huddlesNot FacebookThey control the Gate ..search engine

Weaknesses Murdoch BaggageBeen there done that atmosphere

Privacy, Privacy, PrivacyTime line upsets peopleMark Zuckerberg

NewbeeMaybe the market segment a bit old, not cool?

Opportunities Carve out a greater music Niche while Facbook locks horns with Google Plus.

By integrating Facebook connect everywhere, with different sites like Netflix and even MySpaceWere you have to register with FB before joining another site.

Learn from Facebooks mistakes and listen to your customer. The wheel doesn’t have to be re-invented but re-engineered. Privacy is important to many people.

Threats FAD effect , have to keep customer as they grow old with age not just a young site

Google PlusMark Zuckerberg

Market saturation.Market share won hard by facebook and facebook wont give up too easily.Google has bad history with social spaces orkut etc

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EndIs this the present leading to the future.......the transition of change?

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