MySpace's Former Owner: Facebook Will Win - for Now
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Brett Brewer, who co-founded InterMix Media - the company that developed MySpace - and turned a tidy profit when that company and MySpace were sold to NewsCorp for $580 million, says MySpace's ongoing battle for social network supremacy with Facebook won't last much longer. In his opinion, Facebook has already won - but it won't remain a winner for long.
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In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, Brewer said:
"Clearly, the world eagerly embraced MySpace, but as the average person has ...
MySpace Founder Bets on Facebook, But Only for the Next 2 Years
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
It appears that even the co-founder of MySpace is placing his money on Facebook to win the social networking wars–if only for the next couple of years.
Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald, Brett Brewer co-founder of MySpace who sold the social site to News Corp, said:
"There’s a fundamental shift going on," Mr Brewer said. "Both sites are … different. We built MySpace for people to find and connect with people they don’t know. Facebook is … built around connecting with people you already know. ...
MySpace Founder: Facebook Beat Us
GEARFUSE —
... social networking sites within two years by another entrant which will most likely pop up with better user functionality for mobile phones. Brewer sounds spot on. Mobile phones are king in 2009 and if you’re not using a top-tier cellphone (iPhone 3G, Blackberry, G1, etc.), you might as well become a recluse. I see something similar to Twitter and Facebook taking over the web and mobile phone markets by storm in 2010-2011. What do you think? Do you prefer MySpace or Facebook? Link
Facebook beats MySpace, says MySpace
p2pnet news —
... In an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald Brewer, who co-founded InterMix Media, which sold MySpace to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, “said MySpace would still grow strongly but not as fast as Facebook,” it states, going on: ...
The Next Two Years Belong To Facebook, According To MySpace Founder
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... [image] It appears that even the co-founder of MySpace is placing his money on Facebook to win the social networking wars if only for the next couple of years. Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald , Brett Brewer co-founder of MySpace who sold the social site to News Corp, said: There s a fundamental shift going on, Mr Brewer said. Both sites are different. We built MySpace for people to find and connect with people they don t know. Facebook is built around connecting with people you already know. Clearly, the world eagerly embraced MySpace, but as the average person has ...
It Could Have Been a Facebook Week, if not for Social Bar
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... What follows the meme was another buzz generated by a Sydney Morning Herald report saying that Facebook will soon beat MySpace. This is based on the growing number of Facebook userbase. This came in right after we wrote about the latest ...

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