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- MySpace
- The most popular social networking site on the Web, especially for teenagers and people under 30. Founded in 2003 by Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe, MySpace was acquired by...
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- Lonelygirl15 gets some "exclusive" MySpace company
- The season finale of the hit web video series, Lonelygirl15, is to be available exclusively on MySpace. Lonelygirl15 already has an ad-revenue sharing deal with YouTube and Revver, so this is a major coup for the News Corp-owed social networking site. And in an interesting and innovative twist, the final...
- Tags: YouTube, Video Sharing, Social Networks, MySpace, Bebo
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- MySpace, a place for finding talent?
- NewTeeVee reports that MySpace, along with the FOX network and the Producers Guild of America, is launching a new video competition, which aims to seek out new television production talent via the social networking site. Dubbed the "Storyteller Challenge", starting September 4, MySpace will ask for 5-to 7-minute television "pilots"...
- Tags: Social Networks, MySpace
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- MySpace to launch Internet TV show?
- It's being reported that News Corp-owned MySpace is about to get in on the Internet TV game, by commissioning its own online video show.Newsblaze reports:It has quietly without fanfare, media flair, or bidding warfare, struck a deal with some Hollywood talent, expecting this little group to start new broadcasts of...
- Tags: Social Networks, MySpace
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Should you trust Facebook with your users?
- Inside Facebook has an interesting post detailing the affect a Facebook bug or partial outage can have on a Facebook application's user numbers. When there are kinks in the Facebook Platform, to users it can often look like a problem with the third-party app itself. That's because Facebook applications have...
- Tags: Social Networks, MySpace, Facebook
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- The Facebook effect: MySpace to open up
- The Financial Times is reporting that MySpace may soon open itself up to third-party developers -- in a similar strategy to Facebook -- which would see outside companies able to "plug" their web services into the number one social networking site. This is of course in direct response to the...
- Tags: Social Networks, MySpace, Facebook
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- Research: Myspace and Facebook are different class
- In my recent post 'Facebook and MySpace are like chalk ‘n' cheese', I argued that the two sites have contrasting user-bases, and cater for different needs.... essentially I see the two giants generally catering for the needs of different demographics — hence their distinct differences in terms of layout and...
- Tags: Social Networks, MySpace, Facebook
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- Facebook and MySpace are like chalk 'n' cheese
- With talk of Rupert Murdock attempting to 'offload' MySpace to Yahoo in return for a 25% stake in the company, there's inevitably been another round of discussion in the tech media comparing Facebook to MySpace. Not only is Facebook growing at a faster rate than MySpace -- though as TechCrunch...
- Tags: Social Networks, MySpace, Facebook
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- MySpace to befriend eBay?
- MySpace has hinted at a potential partnership with eBay, in a bid to offer e-commerce services to its millions of users. In an article in the Telegraph newspaper, MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe is quoted as saying:"If you're on your site and you have a line of T-shirts you have designed...
- Tags: Facebook, Google, MySpace, Social Networks
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- iTunes sets up shop in Bebo; CNN/YouTube sponsor presidential debate; Google Video search; social network privacy tested
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… iTunes sets up shop in Bebo. Apple has signed a deal with social network, Bebo, which sees the company selling digital music to the site's 8.8m users in the...
- Tags: Apple, Bebo, Facebook, Google, MySpace, Search, Social Networks, The Social Web weekly
- Blog posts 2007-06-15
- More thoughts on Facebook's new platform
- Earlier this week I reported on Facebook's plans to further open up and to turn the social network into a platform. Third parties would be able to partner with Facebook, who in return would provide the necessary hooks for those companies to port their applications, and set-up-shop inside of the...
- Tags: Facebook, MySpace, Social Networks, Widgets
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- FlashFlashRevolution: putting the rhythm into social networking
- Flash Flash Revolution FFR is a multi-player music game built in Flash, which follows the long tradition of rhythm-based games. You begin by picking a song, and each song has a corresponding pattern of arrows that goes along to the beat of the music. The goal is to hit the...
- Tags: MySpace, Social Networks
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Why is MySpace News a ghost town?
- When MySpace News launched last month, I described it as the latest move to turn News Corps social networking site into a one-stop-shop, providing as many reasons as possible for its users to stay within the site. MySpace keeps adding new features and content previously provided by 3rd party sites,...
- Tags: MySpace, Social Networks, Social News Sites
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- MySpace buys Photobucket
- First reported by Valleywag, and then confirmed by TechCrunch, MySpace has acquired the popular photosharing site, Photobucket. Readers of this blog will know that the two companies have had an on/off relationship, with Photobucket owing much of its success to News Corp.s social networking site, before they were blocked for...
- Tags: Widgets, Social Networks, MySpace
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- MySpace China, a place for censorship
- The look and feel of MySpace China may resemble its US cousin, but its editorial policy couldnt be more different. Perhaps an inevitable concession to doing business in the country, News Corp. and its local Chinese partners have implemented filtering software to prohibit users from discussing topics such as Taiwanese...
- Tags: Social Networks, Net culture, MySpace
- Blog posts 2007-04-29
- MySpace News goes live
- Following the rumors last month that MySpace was getting into the news aggregation game, MySpace News has now gone live. Built on technology developed by Newroo (which News Corp. acquired last year), MySpace news combines the aggregation functionality of Google News, with user voting similar to Digg.From Londons Times newspaper...
- Tags: Social News Sites, Social Networks, MySpace
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- YouTube spotlights presidential candidates; CBS excludes YouTube/MySpace from content deals; Can YouTube Hear Me? (update); and more
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week…YouTube invites presidential candidates into the spotlight. YouTube is putting each of the US presidential hopefuls into the Spotlight; a weekly event on the video sharing site where each candidate...
- Tags: YouTube, Widgets, Video Sharing, Social Networks, Politics 2.0, MySpace, Joost, Friendster
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- MySpace blocks Photobucket videos; the end of the wild west of social networks?
- MySpace, the 100 pound guerrilla of social networking, is at it again -- this time blocking Photobucket videos from being embedded on the site. No word yet from News Corp. as to the reason why; though Mike Arrington over at TechCrunch is speculating that it may be because Photobucket is...
- Tags: Social Networks, MySpace
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- "Harry Potter" publisher plans 'MySpace for books'
- Bloomsbury, the publisher behind the hit book series Harry Potter, has announced that it has plans to create the MySpace of the book world. With the final Potter coming out later this year, and amidst falling profits, the company sees entering the social media space as a way of filling...
- Tags: Social Networks
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Ning v2: another do-it-yourself MySpace?
- Need more proof that social networking sites are becoming a commodity? Look no further than Ning version 2, dubbed: "Your Own Social Network". Its the companys latest iteration of its service which is designed to allow anybody to create and run their own social web site -- with little or...
- Tags: Social Networks, MySpace, Video Sharing
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Barack Obama launches social network
- Barack Obama, the Democrat presidential hopeful, has launched his own social network which hes calling MyBarackObama.com. The site invites supporters to create a profile, blog their campaign experiences, plan and attend events, find other supporters, and help raise funds for the campaign. Obama already has an official presence of Facebook...
- Tags: Video Sharing, YouTube, Social Networks, MySpace, Facebook, social networking, Barack Obama
- Blog posts 2007-02-10
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