Myspace #5 by Kit Menkin
Top 500 Sites 1. Yahoo! 2. Microsoft Network (MSN) 3. Google 4. EBay 5. Myspace In reading www.leasingnews.org , Shawn Halladay was commenting on the accuracy, even though non-scientific Alexa report ( also owned by Google and used in their statistics.) The fact that many of the leasing media sites have stayed in the relative same position to give credence was note. Also www.leasingnews.org , a blog, has risen up the ladder. To show the importance of this interactive medium, “Myspace” is now number five. It is perhaps the most active blog web site for those under 30 years old, primarily.
To those of a different age, we might have never heard of it. My son Dash has one, and so does Katie, age 24, who uses her Blackberry as much as her telephone, as well as her wireless laptop on the kitchen table with the TV on, too. Now I don't know if I approve of the “freedom” and what is on many of these blogs, but the interaction is what attracts them, and will the same for Shawn Halladay's blog as he talks about lease accounting, new tax laws that affect leasing, management and sales changes. I am not saying his well-written blog will ever get up to #5 as it is basically about a specific niche of the financial industry. If you visit a MySpace site, you might think how in the world did this get to be popular. AOL tried it will their free web sites and chat rooms, their early claim to fame, as well as making it easy to dial up to the internet. Here what is emphasized is freedom to have a junkyard of stupid, personal pictures, odds and ends, quotes from friends, and a form of “Classmates” from your previous schools and colleges. And free. Who has been promoting “MySpace,” none other than the “old man,” Rupert Murdoch. His Newscorp must have run the numbers and saw a gold mine. They bought Myspace for $580 Million back in July of 2005. Alexa's PageViews graph comparing Google and “MySpace' reveals that myspace gets a little more than 50% of the pageviews of Google. I predict as more people discover Shawn Halladay's blog “Leasingnotes.com” it will continue to grow. Maybe he might even invite a “MySpace” for the leasing community.
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