Facebook vs MySpace debate keeps moving ahead
Facebook has experienced phenomenal growth in South Africa over the last few months. As recently as early May, there were only 25,000 registered users in the South African network on Facebook, and that has exploded to over 120,000 as of 2 July. That’s over 45,000 new users per month for the last two months. Now […]
MySpace sends missing childrens alerts
Popular online social network MySpace will begin sending online alerts to users in certain US regions to help find missing children, as part of an expansion of plans to expand safeguards for users. MySpace struck a partnership with the National Centre for Missing & Exploited Children to enable MySpace Amber alerts, a programme between the […]
Protecting Your Kids from Cyber-Predators
In America, the website MySpace is having a similar impact to MXit in South Africa. In fact it’s amusing to me both start with “M” 😉 Anyway, I will be drawing more and more comparisons between MySpace and MXit going forward. As I keep saying,g none of these issues are new and originated on the […]
MySpace, YouTube tops Time's 50 Coolest Websites
Time magazine has released its annual list of 50 Coolest websites here. I have started using both MySpace and YouTube frequently. And you can check out my MySpace profile here. And have connected with 71 friends so far. Some of them are very well-known South Africans like Danny K and ex-girlfriend Lee-Ann Liebenberg. The possibilities […]
Google wins MySpace deal
I’ve been on MySpace for a while now, and you can connect with me on my profile if you are also on MySpace. MySpace is the biggest phenomenon in the last two or three years, and its growth is increasing at levels not seen since the early days of the Web (circa 1996). And now […]