Tag Archives: Social networking

Myspace is (close to) dead

By Arnbjorn Marklund | Published: June 18, 2010
Thought I should share this with you guys. I am currently writing a report on how music streaming services affect online music consumption habits. In that matter I have done a survey amongst Norwegian students (332 respondents in total). One of the questions in the questionnaire was “Where do you hear about new [...]
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The Launch Dates of Major Social Networking Sites

By Arnbjorn Marklund | Published: October 25, 2009
The launch dates of major Social Networking Sites. I am planning to log in to my LinkedIn profile later today, have already been on Facebook this morning, but can’t remember the last time I was on Myspace. What is funny though, is that I had a Friendster account back in 02 without really getting it.
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McCain actually twitters more than Obama

By Arnbjorn Marklund | Published: June 12, 2009
Speaking of Twitter. November 6 I wrote a blog post about the US Presidential election and social networking. After my blog post, the use of micro blogging site Twitter exploded in Scandinavia and rest of Europe compared to last year. Even politicians over here are using Twitter as an active communication tool. But how is [...]
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Micro Bloggins with Twitter by Ogilvy PR

By Arnbjorn Marklund | Published: May 24, 2009
Thanks to @thoor for posting this on his twitter page. Interesting reading for anyone interested in Twitter and ways of using it. Slide presentation originally located here. Open publication – Free publishing – More web 2.0
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ArtistData will no longer be 100% free

By Arnbjorn Marklund | Published: January 9, 2009
ArtistData (I shared my love for this site some time ago) will no longer be 100% free. ArtistData will leave the beta phase and fully launch the platform. I have really enjoyed using ArtistData and I think it is one of the greatest tools to plan and promote a tour (especially in North America). But leaving beta [...]
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The US Presidential election and social networking

By Arnbjorn Marklund | Published: November 6, 2008
As we all know, social networking sites is a great way to communicate with fans. Not only for musicians, but for politicians too. I guess “followers” would be a better word than “fans” in this matter. And just by looking at how many followers the presidential candidates had on different social networking sites, we pretty [...]
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