MySpace.com is teaming up with Internet search leader Google Inc. in a campaign to extend MySpace’s reach and counter the expansion of their common rival Facebook Inc. The alliance came together after Myspace’s campaign to allow users to search the web while still being logged onto their host website. Myspace is trying to accomplishing such a goal by selling it’s website to advertising websites to allow its users to log onto the website while on the Myspace website at the same time. By working with Google, Myspace looks to expand this campagin rapidly. MySpace and Google previously joined forces a year ago to promote a service, called “OpenSocial,” that competes against Facebook’s warehouse of online software programs.
Facebook also is peddling its own universal login service to create more ways for its roughly 130 million worldwide users to share their personal profiles and favorite applications wherever and whenever they want on the Web. Along with giving more privacy to its users, both websites are trying to brainstorm ways to give more leeway for social interaction. The competition is heating up while Facebook recently hired Google’s chief operating officer.
What does the extreme competition show about our society and its priorities? The fight for social networking supremecy is no where near over. Whose side are you on?
2 Comments
December 10, 2008 at 5:29 pm
The question that you ask is a very interesting one because this type of rivalry really does reflect the priorities of our society. Large corporations are more interested in defeating one another than actually providing customers with good care and service. This not only reflects the attitudes of companies that dominate the internet, but also any other large corporation in our society today. It demonstrates the selfish motivations of companies who aim to destroy the competition. It is actually very sad that this reflects what occurs in our society because there are so many other destructive forces and problems in our world, we do not need a rivalry between internet corporations to add to everything else that occurs in our world today.
December 12, 2008 at 1:18 pm
I think it is a smart business decision. I mean, facebook is somewhat of a monopoly on the internet and Myspace and Google have every right to challenge one and another. As Alex Smith once said a free market instill good competition and fair prices.