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MySpace Follows Our Advice, Promises To Simplify Privacy Settings
Last week, as the outrage grew over the privacy implications of Facebook’s new ambitions to spread its tentacles deeper into the Web, Michael offered some advice to MySpace. This is MySpace’s moment to shine, he argued: MySpace, the once great social network that still has scores of millions of ...
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How Did MySpace Become Number One on Android?
When MySpace announced earlier this week that they had now established themselves as the number one social networking application on the Android platform and the number three download overall, needless to say, we were a bit shocked. After all, (with no offense to MySpace intended), there are more Facebook users ...
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MySpace Launches An Activity And Content Stream
MySpace has launched an activity and content stream, which they are calling simply the “Stream.” Previously they showed a feed of status updates from friends, but the new feature shows a lot more content, including things like music your friends are listening to on MySpace Music, video they’re watching, links ...
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Google Now Includes MySpace Status Updates in Real-Time Search Results
MySpace and Google just announced that starting today, status updates from MySpace users will appear in Google's real-time search. MySpace announced its real-time Stream API in December and Google launched its real-time search feature just a day before the MySpace announcement. While Google was one of MySpace's launch partners (together ...
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Tom Has Finally Reached His MySpace Friend Limit
MySpace cofounder Tom Anderson supposedly begged to keep his job when the rest of the founding team was shown the door nine months ago. They kept him on, almost as a mascot. He was, after all, the first friend everyone had when signing up to MySpace. He lost his President ...
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Facebook Connect Pops Up on MySpace
About a month ago, we heard reports that MySpace and Facebook aren’t quite the archenemies they once were; on the contrary, MySpace was about to implement Facebook Connect, which meant that users would be able to log into MySpace with their Facebook credentials. Now, MySpace has indeed rolled out an ...
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MySpace and WSJ Send a Citizen Journalist to Davos
MySpace, The Wall Street Journal and the World Economic Forum have announced their second annual contest to send a citizen journalist to Davos, Switzerland. The user will be a special correspondent at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010. It’s important to note, however, that only users from the ...
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MySpace And Wall Street Journal To Send A Citizen Journalist To Davos
Once again, MySpace is partnering with The Wall Street Journal, which are both owned by News Corp, to send one MySpace user to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January. Dubbed the “MySpace Citizen Journalist,” the contest will let one lucky winner, who is chosen by a panel ...
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MySpace Loses Tim Schulz
Tim Schulz has resigned from his role as Senior Product Manager at MySpace, he confirmed a couple of hours ago on Twitter. Schulz let the MySpace executive team know that he was leaving the social networking company on Friday, and he informed us that starting January 2010, he’ll be running ...
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MySpace Releases One API, Buys Then Kills Another
MySpace, the social network heavyweight looking to get back some of their old momentum is making a big splash with developers this week. On one hand, they announced an innovative, open platform for real-time stream access and more. But will that be overshadowed by a complete lack of care for ...
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Myspace Opens Floodgates: Developers Get API for Real-Time Stream
Earlier this week Myspace announced a partnership with Google to deliver real-time status updates to the search experience. As of today, the company is furthering its real-time efforts by announcing the public release of the real-time stream, status and mood commenting, open search and photo upload APIs. Myspace's offer to ...
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Ok, Now It’s Done. MySpace Music Completes Acquisition Of iMeem
MySpace Music has completed its acquisition of most of the assets of music service iMeem. We first broke the news that MySpace was close to acquiring iMeem last month. Two days later, we reported that an agreement was signed to purchase the assets of the company for $1 million ...
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MySpace Kills Streaming Music Apps Powered by iMeem's API
In a move of ninja swiftness, MySpace has acquired and subsequently shuttered iMeem in its entirety, even trashing the streaming/sharing music startup's API, which had heretofore supplied much-needed resources to a small but vibrant ecosystem of apps. The acquisition was announced just yesterday, and developers were given no warning that ...
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MySpace Music makes its way to the UK
MOG may well be hitting a sweet spot with its All Access service, but it’s only available in the United States for now. Its most obvious competitor, MySpace Music, was too (apart from Australia and New Zealand) until a minute ago when the company made its official debut in the ...
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MySpace Music Charts: Billboard for a New Generation
Anyone following MySpace’s maneuvers in the past few months is aware of the talks to buy Imeem, the acquisition of iLike, and the implication-heavy partnership with Google on music search. Clearly, music is the perceived key to MySpace’s MySpace comeback. Today we have further proof of this notion in the ...
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MySpace to Live Stream Twilight New Moon Red Carpet Premiere
The film “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” continues to take over MySpace. Last month, the first “New Moon” trailer premiered on MySpace, and the social site also served as home base for the “New Moon” soundtrack. On November 16 at 6:00 PM PT, MySpace MySpace will stream the red ...
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MySpace Adds Full Music Video Archives, Deep Artist Analytics
MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta will make a number of announcements on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this afternoon. Among them are two major changes to MySpace Music. The service will now have a full historical archive of music videos from the major labels and independents. ...
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Listen to the Entire Twilight: New Moon Soundtrack on MySpace
You’ll have to wait another 36 days to see the next chapter in the highly successful Twilight saga, but you can listen to the accompanying tunes right now, courtesy of MySpace. Head on over to the official Twilight MySpace page, scroll down past the humongous images of the movie’s vampire/human/werewolf ...
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MySpace Partners with UStream for Embedded Live Video Chat with Mixed Results
This morning, MySpace users got to see and participate in a live video chat with actor Gerard Butler and director F. Gary Gray through a MySpace promotional page that integrated popular streaming video site UStream. Due to an unfortunate technical glitch, users ended up hearing the audio from the film's ...
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More Proof: Facebook for the Rich, MySpace for the Poor
Oh how the mighty have fallen. The one time king of social networks, MySpace, now has the honor of being the site where the less affluent members of the online population stake their claims by way of bedazzled profiles overrun with auto-playing videos and songs. Meanwhile, the upscale, financially solvent ...
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MySpace Expands Twitter Syncing To Six New Countries
Yesterday MySpace launched two-way syncing with Twitter for U.S. users, something Facebook has shied away from to date. This evening, they’ve extended the functionality to the UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and India. You can sign up for the service at myspace.com/sync. MySpace says they’ve also got a ...
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MySpace Hooks Up With Twitter, Offers Two-Way Sync
Realizing that it’s better to swim with the stream than against it, MySpace has just turned on two-way sync with Twitter. MySpace status updates can now be sent to Twitter and shared with all of your followers there, and Twitter updates can appear in your MySpace activity stream as ...
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New Moon Soundtrack Revealed on MySpace
New Moon, the second film in the Twilight saga, is still two months away from theaters, but it’s easily one of the more hyped up films we’ve ever seen on the Web. There have already been a number of trailers leaked, and when we hosted two stars from ...
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MySpace Now Syncs Status Updates With Twitter
MySpace just announced that its users will now be able to sync their status updates with their Twitter feeds. MySpace users will be able to send their status updates on MySpace directly to Twitter and will also be able to import their Twitter updates to their MySpace feeds. This is ...
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Last.fm and MySpace Blocked in Turkey?
Music site Last.fm and social network MySpace are the latest sites to be added to Turkey’s block list, according to a Turkish blog and Twitter reports. Web users in Turkey are already prevented from accessing YouTube; Facebook, meanwhile, seems unaffected by Internet filters. Turkish blog WebRazzi reports on its ...
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See HD Trailer for Upcoming Michael Jackson Documentary on MySpace
Michael Jackson’s death came at a time when the singer was preparing for one of the biggest endeavors of his career: a series of 50 final concerts called This Is It. It was supposed to be one final crescendo in Jackson’s career, but due to his untimely death, it wasn’t ...
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MySpace Now Pushes Activity Streams to Windows Live
MySpace and Microsoft just announced that Windows Live users can now start broadcasting their MySpace activity stream on Windows Live. MySpace users can now import status updates, blog entries, photo uploads, and music into Windows Live. MySpace and Microsoft built this MySpaceID implementation on the activitystrea.ms standard, which has also ...
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How Facebook Beat MySpace: From College Dorm to Platform
Two years ago Danah Boyd's article "Viewing American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace" mesmerized marketers and tech journalists. Facebook was described as "hegemonic" while MySpace was the haven of "subaltern" teens. Whether Boyd intended it or not, Facebook became characterized as the privileged space of college kids ...
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Former MySpace Exec Allen Hurff Working On A Startup Incubator
Allen Hurff, the former SVP of Engineering at MySpace who left the company earlier this Summer, will apparently be launching a startup incubator as his next venture. An anonymous tipster points us to the man’s LinkedIn profile, where his current activity is listed as ‘Facilitator of the WebSquared Era at ...
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iLike Acquired by MySpace: Live Blogging the Press Call
We just got an invitation to a MySpace press conference with MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta that will start at 11:45am PDT. We also just received news that MySpace did indeed enter into an agreement to acquire the music recommendation service iLike. The financial terms of the acquisition were not ...
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MySpace to Unveil Integration With Sites Around the Web, Using Open Standards
MySpace will announce in the next few weeks a major new feature being added to its MySpaceID product that will allow third-party websites to write updates into the MySpace activity feed just like Facebook Connect, but will also incorporate open semantic microformat code in order to comprehend what those updates ...
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MySpace Gets Some Love From The Former Kings Of Grunge
Alright, I’ll admit upfront that I’m a little biased here. Pearl Jam was my favorite band growing up and retains a place in my heart. I like them so much, that they got me to visit the new social networking whipping boy, MySpace, today. Why? Because the band’s new single, ...
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European MySpace employees wait for a bloodbath
Four days ago MySpace announced they were laying off 30% of their staff in the U.S. and promptly sent 400 employees packing. The announcement stated that the layoffs only applied to U.S. employees. That strongly indicated that the next up for termination were over 100 of its international employees, as ...
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KFC’s MySpace Strategy: A Lifetime Supply of Chicken
KFC has put a lot of marketing muscle behind their new “Kentucky Grilled Chicken,†most notably with the free meal giveaway by Oprah. While that campaign generated enormous online buzz – some of it rather unfavorable as stores refused to honor the coupons – the chicken chain is ...
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MySpace Adds A Bottom IM Bar, Like That Other Social Network
I hate the bottom toolbar on Facebook. I simply never remember it’s there for things like applications and quick access to photos. But it is fairly useful as a place to store your IM buddy list so it’s mostly out of sight but still open. And that’s exactly what MySpace ...
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MySpace Wants To Avoid This Whole Holocaust Denial Thing
Lots of heat is being put on Facebook over Holocaust denial, ranging from blogs to CNN to pissed off moms who still can’t post pictures of their breasts on their Facebook pages. Facebook is standing firm in their defense of the deniers. Meanwhile, MySpace is just hoping no one ...
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Layoffs Hit MySpace
MySpace has let go of as many as 45 employees in the last week, we’ve confirmed. Sources close to the company say that the exact figure may be smaller, but that MySpace has definitely laid off a significant number of people. MySpace has refused to comment on the ...
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Three’s Company: Meet Your New MySpace Executive Team
Less than a week ago MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe still felt secure in his job. Fast forward to today and DeWolfe is out and a new CEO, Owen Van Natta, is starting his first day on the job. And he’s already got two lieutenants, either of which could easily ...
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Hiring Of New MySpace CEO Settles Many Old Scores
MySpace parent company News Corp. continues to leak, off record, that Owen Van Natta is in the final stages of becoming the new CEO of MySpace (one of the more obvious candidates on our list yesterday). Van Natta certainly has the experience on paper to run the company - he ...
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MySpace Finally Opens The Door To Application Notifications
Tonight MySpace is preparing to launch a new addition to its application platform that allows developers to distribute notifications from their apps to their users. It may not sound particularly exciting at first, but the feature is one that developers have been clamoring for, as the notifications are essential ...
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MySpace ‘Lite’ Brings Bloated Profile Pages Down To Size
MySpace users have been noticing a new button in their Nav Bars this afternoon, allowing them to switch between the site’s traditional ‘Full’ view and a new view, called ‘Lite’, which strips out the customization and media that the site’s profiles have become known for. When reached for comment, ...
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MySpace To Launch Featured Apps Directory Next Week
MySpace has announced that it is planning to launch a new “Editor’s Pick” category in its application directory next week, allowing members to quickly sift through the platform’s best apps. MySpace had previously shown a handful of featured apps as users browsed its Apps Directory, but these rotated and ...
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Earn Some D’oh: MySpace Wants You To Make Your Own Simpsons Couch Gag
Nearly anyone who has watched TV in the last twenty years is familiar with The Simpson’s intro, which always features a different brief segment at the end as the family rushes to sit together on their couch. Even after 436 episodes it’s a gag that still hasn’t gotten old. ...
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MySpace Goes Local: Announces Partnership with Citysearch
MySpace today announced a partnership with Citysearch that will bring Citysearch's database of local businesses to the social network's new MySpace Local service. Users on MySpace can now review, rate, and share content about businesses on MySpace Local, and reviews and ratings will appear in users' activity stream. MySpace will ...
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MySpace and Microsoft Bring OpenSocial to Windows Mobile
MySpace just announced that it will bring its Open Platform to Windows Mobile phones. The new MySpace mobile application for Windows Mobile will be built on top of Microsoft's Silverlight platform. In addition, MySpace also announced its MySpace Silverlight SDK, which will make it easier for developers to build OpenSocial ...
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MySpace Embraces Microsoft Platforms For Mobile And Web Applications
Two Microsoft-related announcements coming from social networking giant MySpace today: the portal is adding support for Windows Mobile-run phones to its new mobile application, due this summer, and bringing the Silverlight runtime to its developer program thanks to a jointly developed Open Source kit. The upcoming application will be created ...
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MySpaceID Gets An Upgrade, But Did It Already Miss The Boat?
MySpace has just released a major upgrade for MySpaceID, its product that allows users to sign in to third party sites with their MySpace credentials to import their social graphs and profile information into these third party services. The update addresses many of the features MySpaceID has lacked since ...
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You've Got to Be Kidding: A MySpace Credit Card?
MySpace is announcing today that it is partnering with Citi to offer its users a co-branded credit card. We expect to start seeing cards flashed at retail outlets by 99-year olds named "bongkillah," or what have you. MySpace is a lot of things, and despite Facebook's formidable attack ...
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MySpace Continues to Play Catch-up but Is It Too Late?
While it used to be a bit of a media darling, it's not often that we write about MySpace anymore, but they continue to plug along - as one of the most popular sites on the Web. And, they continue to roll out new features for their user base. For ...
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MySpace Inches Closer To Offering Full-Fledged Webmail Service
Last month we reported that MySpace was planning to launch a webmail service - a move that could instantly make it one of the web’s largest Email providers (provided a substantial portion of its users took advantage of the feature). Today we’ve received a number of tips that MySpace ...
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U2’s New Album Debuts on MySpace Music
It’s nothing new for albums to premiere online before hitting record stores (do those still exist?), but the debut of U2’s album on MySpace Music marks a big moment for the service. The latest release from arguably the biggest band in the world, the “No Line On The Horizon†...
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MySpace Quietly Launches Site-Wide Image Search
MySpace has introduced a new image search feature to its integrated search engine, allowing users to quickly search through photos shared by their friends and the MySpace community. While MySpace did not officially announce the new feature, the company has confirmed that it recently went live, and indexes around ...
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MySpaceID: MySpace Sides with the Open Stack
A few months ago, MySpace began to reveal details about its answer to Facebook Connect - MySpace Data Availability. At the time, we were left to guess what the offering would contain. What we did know was that - in stark contrast to the proprietary nature of Facebook Connect - ...
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50 Hot MySpace Music Layouts
MySpace is not known for good design. Its garish profiles make designers nauseous. And yet, there are signs of hope: we’ve tracked down 50 MySpace music layouts that are quite remarkable. Stylish. Stunningly well-conceived. Beautiful, even. Could it be that MySpace profiles aren’t all bad? ...
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MySpace launches searchable video widget
Now you can put a TV on your MySpace profile--sort of. The News Corp.-owned social network has built a new widget for its developer platform called " Primetime," a video player that syndicates much of the professionally created content available on its MySpaceTV media hub. Included in that roster ...
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MySpace Finally Completes Mobile Trifecta with BlackBerry App
It's inevitable. News surfaces about a new iPhone or Android application and almost immediately it's followed by "When are we getting our BlackBerry app?" And with good reason. For all the buzz about Google and Apple handsets, BlackBerry remains the dominant force in smart mobile devices. So it shouldn't come ...
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MySpace Primetime: Massive Distribution for Hulu
MySpace has launched an internally developed application called Primetime that is essentially a custom media player providing access to all of Hulu’s video content. The app allows you to embed the player on your personal homepage and profile, and lets you search Hulu and watch video from within the ...
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MySpace beating Facebook on ads? Well, duh
There's a big Wall Street Journal piece on Tuesday about how MySpace is still seriously beating Facebook in the advertising and marketing game, regardless of the fact that Facebook has started to breeze past it in traffic. This is one of those stories geared toward the Journal 's less ...
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MySpace Launches Profile 2.0. No, You Don’t Have to Switch
For many, MySpace ’s profiles have always been a mess: unevenly aligned elements, ugly colors, music and videos playing everywhere (often simultaneously) are to be expected when you click on someone’s profile. On the other hand, one can argue that this is exactly what users want, hence MySpace’s humongous popularity. ...
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MTV to MySpace: Post Our Content, Please
From the moment people had the ability to upload video content to the Web, they took the liberty of posting anything and everything they could find - whether they owned the rights to the content or not. Unfortunately, this caused the people who did own the rights to the content ...
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MySpace Profile 2.0 Takes Visual Cues From Facebook
Earlier this month we asked if Facebook was becoming more like MySpace. We noted that there were new apps cropping up that were making Facebook look a lot more like MySpace. MySpace has started to open up alpha testing for its Profile 2.0 service. We caught a sneak peek and ...
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MySpace Finally Supports Mobile Photo Uploads
Short of using a specialized application ( or phone ) of some sort, users of the social networking service MySpace did not have a way to easily upload photos from their mobile phones directly to their profiles until now. According to a recent entry on the MySpace blog, mobile photo ...
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OpenID Day Coming Soon for MySpace
This summer MySpace announced that it would implement OpenID and a number of new user data hooks for developers to build mashups with. That announcement was made in July and there's been no MySpace OpenID seen in the wild...until now. As pointed out by intrepid explorer of the interwebs ...
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MySpace MyAds: Target Ads to "Drinking" and "Partying"
When in doubt, follow the leader. That's what MySpace seems to be doing with the release of MySpace MyAds, a service that - on the surface - appears to have a great deal in common with another successful ad model, Google AdWords. Like Google's ad platform, the new MySpace ad ...
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MySpace and HP Team Up to Allow Site-Wide Photo Printing
MySpace has partnered with Hewlett-Packard (HP) to bring print-on-demand capability to the popular social network. That’s right. Those embarrassing photos of you Xeroxing your rear end at the office Christmas party aren’t just on your receptionist’s MySpace albums anymore. They’ll be printable so that even those who haven’t found the ...
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Is Facebook Becoming MySpace?
Given Facebook's growing marketshare both here in the U.S. and worldwide, there's a growing concern that Facebook will soon morph into that other social network - one that many of us had happily left behind: MySpace. But unfortunately, hints of MySpace have been cropping up into Facebook lately thanks to ...
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MySpace Music: It’s All About the Activity Stream
MySpace Music launches officially this evening, featuring an enormous collection of free streaming music from all four of the major record labels (EMI apparently signed on at the last minute) and several intriguing features for music discovery and monetization. While there is much to get into in describing the ...
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MyDebates.org: MySpace Gets Political
MySpace today announced that it will work together with the Commission for Presidential Debates (CPD) to broadcast the upcoming presidential debates in the U.S. live on the social networking site. MySpace and the CPD also created MyDebates.org, where users can learn more about the issues and candidates through various quizzes ...
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Myspace Plays Catch Up: Allows Users to Record Videos From Webcam
While social networks can sometimes overlap in features, there are a selection of features that you can only find on one network or the other. This has been the case for Facebook and Myspace users for years. However, Myspace is looking to play catch-up this week. The popular social network ...
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MySpace Partners With RIM To Create New MySpace App For Blackberry
Today, MySpace announced a global partnership with Research in Motion (RIM), makers of Blackberry smartphones. The two companies have come together to create a new version of the MySpace Mobile application designed specifically for Blackberry devices. MySpace Mobile, which officially launched in March of this year, lets users interact with ...
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MySpace Cofounder Tom Anderson Was A Real Life “WarGames” Hacker in 1980s
Late last year we discovered that MySpace cofounder Tom Anderson, arguably the most popular individual on the Internet with 240+ million MySpace friends (he is added by default to every MySpace account) was actually 37 years old, not the 32 that he continues to claim on his MySpace page. ...
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The 5 New Veeps at MySpace
We got our hands on a memo from MySpace announcing some major new hires for the company in their executive management. Five new vice presidents have been added to their roster coming from companies like Yahoo, MTV, the Los Angeles Times and eBay. The memo was kind enough to provide ...
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MySpace Opens Up First; Launches Data Availability on Flixster and Eventful
The so-called social Web just became legitimately open, as MySpace has launched the two first implementations of its Data Availability initiative on Flixster and Eventful. Simultaneously, the company is announcing that it will support OpenID, allowing its users to sign into any OpenID-enabled website using their MySpace credentials. ...
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MySpace Shows Facebook How It’s Done: Google Gears To Power Messaging
The Google I/O conference in San Francisco kicks off today with a really welcome announcement: MySpace has integrated Google Gears into its messaging system, which will back up all messages to a user’s local machine and allow for very fast search and sorting. This is the largest third party ...
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Newsweek Confirms MySpace CoFounder Lied About Age
Newsweek has confirmed our story that MySpace cofounder Tom Anderson, who automatically becomes everyone’s first friend when they register for the site, has lied about his age. Newsweek based their confirmation on “professional license information, voter registration and utility and telephone service applications” (our story was based on a statement ...
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MySpace Looking for the Next “Prom Queen”
MySpace had a great deal of success with their short form webisode, “Prom Queen”. The heavily hyped ode to teenage drama drew over 15 million streams during its run and is gearing up for another season. MySpace is looking to take the format to the streets, now soliciting film makers ...
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MySpace Had 4 Times the Sex Offenders Originally Reported
MySpace.com has found and deleted profiles of 29,000 convicted sex offenders, more than four times the initial 7,000 profiles they claimed in May. The numbers were discovered after MySpace turned over info detailing the offenders they had removed from the service. MySpace turned over the records after states filed a ...
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Virgin Comics And MySpace Partner on New User-Generated Comic Series
Here’s an interesting new venture by Myspace: they’ve partnered with Virgin Comics to create Coalition Comix. Mike Carey, a veteran comic book writer, will guide the process of creating an entirely new comic on the site. And they are promising to take user ideas and votes to guide the story. ...
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MySpace Likely To Open Platform To 3rd Party Developers
MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe has indicated that MySpace will likely open its platform to 3rd party developers, according to a report at FT.com The move will see MySpace following in the footsteps of Facebook; Facebook’s wildly popular F8 release has seen in excess of 1000 additional applications made available to ...
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PhotoBucket Videos Blocked on MySpace
Sometime around 10:30 pm PST tonight, MySpace began blocking videos embedded on MySpace pages that originate from Photobucket. This is a major blackout, affecting millions of embedded videos. Photobucket images and slideshows are not affected. Videos from competitors like YouTube are still working fine. As with previous outages, embedded ...
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MySpace TrailerPark: Dedicated Movie Trailer Site
I got a chuckle this morning when I saw an email from MySpace that they were launching a new service called “ TrailerPark ” (I thought perhaps they were targeting an underserved demographic for membership expansion). But their new service has nothing to do with that. Instead, it’s a dedicated ...
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John McCain’s MySpace Page “Enhanced”
Someone on Presidential hopeful John McCain’s staff is going to be in trouble today. They used a well known template to create his Myspace page. The template was designed by Newsvine Founder and CEO Mike Davidson (original template is here ). Davidson gave the template code away to anyone who ...
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MySpace: Why We Block Widgets
MySpace PR has replied to our request for comment on the Imeem blockage that we reported over the weekend. Julie Henderson, SVP Corporate Communications at Fox Interactive (MySpace’s parent company), says: If a widget violates our TOS, we block them. Breaches would include any person, widget or software that ...
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MySpace to Implement Copyrighted Video Filtering
MySpace announced this morning that it is offering free indexing to any content producers who want to block users from uploading their copyrighted videos.  The site has been offering audio filtering and limited video filtering since late last year.  The biggest question on the table is whether and when YouTube will do ...
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MySpace is Getting a Little Testy
There was a mysterious outage on MySpace this morning. It lasted just 2.5 hours, and the site itself performed mostly as it should. All that happened was this: Anyone trying to add a Flash widget to the site, or show an image via an inserted link, or otherwise embed any ...
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News Corp: MySpace Worth $6 Billion
In an investors meeting in Australia yesterday, Rupert Murdoch said that MySpace could now be sold for $6 billion — about a 10x return on the original $580 million that News Corp. paid for it. In other news, one of the many MySpace alternatives, Facebook, is rumored to be in ...
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MySpace Moves to Protect Copyright Holders
On Monday MySpace will announce a partnership with California startup Gracenote to help detect and block copyrighted music from being posted on MySpace member pages. This will allow them to be more proactive about copyright enforcement, in addition to complying with DMCA take-down notices. YouTube made a similar announcement ...
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MySpace Makes Subtle Shifts to Emphasize Video
We wrote earlier about News Corp’s unease with the Google-YouTube acquisition. For the last few weeks News Corp has been engaging in a one-sided PR war with YouTube - from News Corp. COO Peter Chernin’s recent comments that 60-70% of YouTube traffic comes from MySpace (YouTube says this is incorrect ...
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MySpace: We don’t need Web 2.0
News Corp. chief operating officer Peter Chernin told company investors today that, “If you look at virtually any Web 2.0 application, whether its YouTube, whether it’s Flickr, whether it’s Photobucket or any of the next-generation Web applications, almost all of them are really driven off the back of MySpace.” ...
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MySpace driving more retail traffic than MSN search
New Hitwise findings indicate that MySpace sent more US traffic to online retail sites last week than MSN search, the third largest search engine on the web. That’s big news, as it’s tangible evidence that youth oriented online social networking is a market driver of serious proportions. ...
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MySpace security measure disables viral spread of widgets
MySpace has taken a step to increase security that disables a key method for third party vendors to spread their services inside the online social network. The company is using new code in a new version of flash that disables outgoing links from flash widgets and it is pushing ...
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MySpace hit #1 US destination last week, Hitwise
Hitwise is reporting that MySpace was the website most visited by US internet users last week. This is the first time that’s happened, the company reports. Yahoo and Google traditionally lead the pack, but Hitwise’s Bill Tancer points out today that MySpace attained a market share figure of ...
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MySpace moves to protect children
Next week will see a number of moves by MySpace to try and protect young users, the New York Times reported today. The biggest change will be that users registered as over 18 years of age will be required to enter the full names or email addresses of users ...
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MySpace in foreign languages due out this summer
MySpace co-founder and chief executive Chris DeWolfe was quoted by the Financial Times yesterday and said that the first localized, non-English versions of MySpace will be available this summer. The company has designated 11 countries to target, naming specifically only France, Germany, China and India. I’ll place my ...
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MySpace Feeds the DeadPool, Nukes Another Startup
MySpace, the 27.4 Billion Pound Gorilla, stomped on another startup today. DatingAnyone.com has shut down its service. Last week startup Singlestat.us closed its doors in response to a MySpace cease and desist letter. The same letter, with a different name and address, is the cause of the shutdown of DatingAnyone.com. ...
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MySpace, The 27.4 Billion Pound Gorilla
It’s worth noting the massive increase in users and traffic at MySpace over the last few months. Paul Kedrosky summarized the key October 2005 MySpace metrics from a BusinessWeek article late last year. Those stats, along with more recent April Comscore and internal Myspace data, are summarized below. MySpace has ...
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