It looks like MySpace, Facebook and competition never ends. According to ComScore reveal for the first time Facebook has been located above its rival, MySpace in worldwide visitors from around the world. The results of the survey in May, Facebook had 123.9 million unique visitors and 50.6 million, while MySpace page, which has 114.6 million unique visitors and 45.4 million pages.
Facebook was created by a graduate of Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg (2004). The site was initially limited to single member who has an e-mail from universities elite, which is then extended to the public and become a new step forward when more information is developed around years ago. Meanwhile, MySpace, the site owned by News Corp., created in 2003, has been successful in short period of time to enlarge the scope of marketing area to their fans.
January and Facebook has launched a site that translated into several languages other than English. Meanwhile, since 2006 MySpace also developed the same thing with the launching of site version beside English version of the United Kingdom and Australia. Now this version has 29 languages and MySpace also has office space in 20 different countries. MySpace aims to build a community that centered on regional culture. For Facebook, the result of the strategy that has run get achievement, demonstrated by its own sites in 20 languages, so that they can build international people.
Facebook last month issued its capital to keep the developement, while MySpace Theme redesign its home page to create users and advertisers become involved. In addition to MySpace and Facebook, many sites participating in the competitive world of social networking on the Internet, as Google popular Orkut in Brazil and India, Latin America hi5, Friendster and the United States and Asia.
Finally, the second executive from the giant software companies Yahoo and Microsoft are met. In a place near the headquarters of Yahoo in Sunnyvale. They say that none present of bank investor for the meeting. The meeting also discussed whether Microsoft has no intention of increasing supply.
The meetings are closed, even if the information is not Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and executives from Yahoo, Jerry Yang attended the meeting, attended by the senior management of both the organization of this company. Microsoft believes that if Microsoft Yahoo together will be a perfect merging to face the dominance of Google.
As you know, the historical of Yahoo problem in financial solvency, has made microsoft to take part in the company. Since then Jerry Yang also try to find other ways to prevent the supply of Microsoft, including Google Inc., News Corp.’s with its MySpace.com and Time Warner Inc.’s AOL with it. Many industry analysts see the result of Microsoft offering as a ‘thigh competition’, for both sides, and Microsoft hope to increase the offer.
The company’s largest U.S. retailers, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. decided to choose the Blu-ray to HD DVD. With this decision, the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. sells Blu-ray all in-store shops. This also means that the Blu-ray from Sony Corp. will be soloist for the format of high-definition video at 4,000 Wal-Mart Stores, the United States.
The announcement of Wal-Mart is right there five days after NetFlix Inc. stopped renting HD-DVD format from Toshiba, because it will work exclusively with Sony Corp. has been able to embrace 5 big studio movies. Sony Corp. bearer as Blu-ray format for high-definition video is supported by The Walt Disney Co., Sony Corp.’s Sony Pictures, News Corp.’s XX Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. Supported by 5 famous studio clearly strengthen the position of Sony Corp. seize the market in high-definition video that is against the Toshiba HD-DVD.
Toshiba did not want to stay off. It’s looking for support from film studios. So far registered Viacom Paramount Pictures, which is also the owner of DreamWorks SKG and Universal Pictures.
Market competition is not expected to be completed yet, of course, because each party continues to try to win the products. This is because the company that can win this battle will be automatically get the benefit of consumers for the purchase of high-definition DVD player in the future.