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Le Monde.fr : La fête est finie pour Facebook et MySpace		Le Monde.fr: The party is over for Facebook and MySpace
Les réseaux sociaux sur internet ont-ils perdu leur pouvoir de séduction ? Certes, tout le monde est aujourd'hui sur Facebook ou MySpace, mais des signes inquiétants concernant leur potentiel financier apparaissent. Le 7 mai, News Corp a déclaré que le chiffre d'affaires de MySpace cette année serait inférieur aux prévisions. Lundi 12 mai, Facebook a annoncé qu'il allait s'endetter.		Have social networks on the Internet lost their power of seduction? Of course, everyone is now on Facebook or MySpace, but some worrying signs about their financial potential appear. On 7 May, News Corp. said the turnover of MySpace this year would be below expectations. Monday, May 12, Facebook announced that it was going into debt.
Le champion des sites pour étudiants a expliqué qu'il allait emprunter 100 millions de dollars à TriplePoint Capital pour investir dans de nouveaux serveurs. <...>		The champion student site said it would borrow 100 million dollars from TriplePoint Capital to invest in new servers. <...>
<...> Que les fonds proviennent d'un requin de la finance, version Silicon Valley, plutôt que d'une banque, suggère que l'argent a été prêté dans des conditions peu favorables.		<...> The fact that the funds come from a finance shark, Silicon Valley style, rather than a bank, suggests that the money was unlikely to have been loaned at favourable conditions.
Les investisseurs potentiels sont peut-être tétanisés par le précédent MySpace. Rupert Murdoch, le patron de News Corp., a déclaré que Fox Interactive (dont la partie la plus importante est MySpace) n'atteindra pas son objectif de 1 milliard de dollars de chiffre d'affaires cette année, compte tenu des difficultés à vendre de la publicité en ligne. <...>		Prospective investors are perhaps frozen by the MySpace precedent. Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. boss, said that Fox Interactive (the most important part of which is MySpace) will not reach its goal of $ 1 billion in turnover this year, given difficulties in selling online advertising. <...>

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed May 14th, 2008 at 01:58:57 PM EST

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Meh, going the way of friendster and Orkut. I'd bet we'll see a new generation of this kind of websites 3 to 5 years from now, which will also fade away. Each generation will need to have its own social networking site...

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Wed May 14th, 2008 at 02:39:26 PM EST
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Maybe there will be a lot of money for whomever designs a programme to automatically port your profile from one networking site from another. Like you could update you base profile to say you liked ice cream, and voila! MySpace, FaceBook, FaceSpace, MyBook, and your dog's auntie automatically know about it.

Member of the Anti-Fabulousness League since 1987.

by Ephemera on Wed May 14th, 2008 at 04:07:27 PM EST
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