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Just because Rupert Murdoch has big marketing muscle, lots of money and a good track record doesn't mean everything he touches becomes an instant success. MySpace put its new "News" section into beta several months ago and is promoting it like crazy on the MySpace homepage. Pretty impressive promotion considering that MySpace is one of the top 10 sites on the Internet.
Have you noticed "RT" and the word "retweet" on your Twitter feed? Not sure what it all means? This tutorial will teach you the basics of a Twitter retweet.
Top law enforcement officers from Connecticut and 7 other US states have asked MySpace.com to turn over the names of registered sex offenders who use the social networking Web site. In a letter, the attorneys general asked MySpace to provide information on how many registered sex offenders are using the site, and where they live. …
The US Department of Defense has announced that it will be blocking access to popular “recreational” sites on the Internet including YouTube.com. The ban against social networking sites is all set to be effective from May 14 and will cover U.S. troops based in Iraq and Afghanistan. Julie Ziegenhorn, spokeswoman for U.S. Strategic Command was …
Terrified that her 45-day prison sentence for drunk driving will plunge her into a world of daily beatings, group showers and a total absence of anything that's even vaguely "hot," Paris Hilton is doing all she can to get out of jail before she even goes in.
According to the rumors, the plan is for MySpace to buy Photobucket for somewhere around $250-300 million.
MySpace just blocked videos and slideshows hosted by Photobucket from appearing on the site. Did this blockage have any effect on MySpace traffic? Photobucket traffic? Let's take a look.
According to reports, Rolling Stone Magazine is considering creating a social network separate from the main Rolling Stone website. But is social media even a good fit with their older audience?
The MySpace page appeared in early November, one more online molecule in the endless social networking universe. It was a fan page with a hot pink background, a tribute to a one-hit Canadian teenage pop star from the early 1990s. “As Robin Sparkle’s #1 Fan, it was my duty to create this page,” read the …
Sanford Wallace, the Spam King, is being sued for setting up thousands of fake profiles on MySpace containing unnatural links to porn and gambling websites.
Social networking behemoth MySpace.com is set to launch its own news service that will allow users to comment on and rate stories that they post on their personal pages. MySpace’s news aggregator service is intended to keep users on the site instead of having them go to other places on the Web to get gossip, …
Breaking up is always hard to do. But when couples split these days, they don’t just have to divide their friends, dishes and favorite restaurants. They also have to figure out how to untangle their digital lives. “You need to visualize your breakup as exorcising your electronic connections as well as your physical connections,” says …
News Corp.’s MySpace could open itself to programming from other content companies, Fox Interactive Media president Peter Levinsohn said Wednesday. In addition, Fox Entertainment Group has hired a president for digital media, Dan Fawcett, filling the post vacated by Ross Levinsohn in November. Speaking at the Bear Stearns Media Conference in Palm Beach, Fla., Levinsohn …
Can YouTube be an effective crime fighting tool? Police are catching suspects by posting sharing surveillance videos on YouTube, but its effectiveness is still unclear.
The popular online hangout MySpace said Monday it will experiment with a video-filtering system designed to block clips containing copyright materials. MySpace is licensing technology from Audible Magic Corp., which late last year obtained rights to a system for scanning video clips and looking for signature vectors _ such as a unique digital fingerprint _ …
MySpace is to launch on mobile phones in Europe through an exclusive deal with Vodafone. The service will launch first in the UK and then be rolled out to selected key European markets, thought to include Germany, France and Italy. MySpace Mobile will come pre-loaded on selected new Vodafone handsets to offer customers an “off-the-shelf” …
According to Hitwise, MySpace related search terms accounted for half of the top 10 search terms to all sites on the Internet in 2006.
