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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: newscorporation</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/newscorporation.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2009-12-05T17:09:57+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>FT.com: The rise and fall of MySpace</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Dec/5/myspace/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-12-05T17:09:57+00:00</published><updated>2009-12-05T17:09:57+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Dec/5/myspace/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/fd9ffd9c-dee5-11de-adff-00144feab49a.html"&gt;FT.com: The rise and fall of MySpace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Lots of stuff about the internal politics at News Corporation. Of particular interest: MySpace have to take feature proposals to News Corp for approval. Meanwhile, Facebook are leading the industry in their use of A/B testing to figure out exactly what features their users will respond well to.

    &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;Via &lt;a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=977869"&gt;Hacker News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ab-testing"&gt;ab-testing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/buckettesting"&gt;buckettesting&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/facebook"&gt;facebook&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/myspace"&gt;myspace&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/newscorporation"&gt;newscorporation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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