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MySpace, for all intents and purposes, is dead and has been so for quite a while. But it may be seeing somewhat of a revival, or maybe just a bit of thawing. MySpace has managed to gain one million new users since December when it introduced a new music player.
The New York Times reports that MySpace is about to ann... |
13 February 2012
07:51 GMT |
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A researcher from the Vulnerability Laboratory came across a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Google Apps webpage, hosted on the google.com domain, but also in other popular websites. Ucha Gobejishvili, also known as longrifle0x, found the flaw in Google Apps and reported it to Google. Even though th... |
27 January 2012
03:05 GMT |
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At this year's Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas, Panasonic and MySpace announced a joint venture in launching a web TV social service under the name of MySpace TV.
The service will be launched in the first half of 2012, and will be available on Panasonic's VIERA Connect platform.
The VIERA Conn... |
10 January 2012
12:42 GMT |
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There's no doubt in anyone's mind that Facebook is the biggest social network out there and the gap between its 'competitors' is especially noticeable in the US.
That's not to say that there aren't any other social sites out there, Nielsen put together a top of the most visited such sit... |
29 December 2011
15:01 GMT |
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It's not something that can't be easily observed by anyone online, but more and more people use social networking sites. In the US, more than half the population has a social network profile. Two thirds of internet users in the US visit and use sites such as MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and so on.
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29 August 2011
09:27 GMT |
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Not long ago, MySpace got bought for $35 million. Fire sale price, to be sure, but the site is bleeding users worse than it has had in recent years and its prospects are bleak to say the least. But the company that bought it has some big plans for it and has now revealed the focus of the new MySpace, music. The site... |
24 August 2011
11:11 GMT |
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Google+ is only a few days old, but it's gotten quite a lot of interest, mostly warranted only because it looks like it's the first Google social product that works. Perhaps it shouldn't be too surprising then that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself joined the new social network.
There were severa... |
4 July 2011
07:11 GMT |
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The saga is over, MySpace has been sold to Specific Media, an advertising network, for $35 million a paltry sum by any measure. News Corp. which has owned MySpace for the past six years or so has finally gotten rid of the property which was becoming an increasingly ugly spot on its quarterly financial reports.
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30 June 2011
03:33 GMT |
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A group of hackers has leaked tens of MySpace and PayPal login credentials which were allegedly captured by sniffing packets on open wireless networks.Called D3V29, the group has openly declared its affiliation with Operation Anti-Security (AntiSec), the hacking campaign originally started by LulzSec and carried forw... |
28 June 2011
08:53 GMT |
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During its quarterly earnings call, News Corp. has made it clear that it is done with MySpace and that the troubled social network turned media hub will find a better home somewhere else. This is not the first time the company has made indications that MySpace is for sale, but it's the most formal announcement t... |
3 February 2011
06:37 GMT |
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More bad news at MySpace, the company is getting another massive round of layoffs, to be announced tomorrow. Already, many of the social network's employees, especially overseas, have been cut in the last couple of years. MySpace is now expected to shed some 550 to 600 employees, out of an 1,000 total. Again, th... |
10 January 2011
09:59 GMT |
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MySpace recently changed its profile from social network to social entertainment hub, redesigned its logo and revamped its website – all in an attempt to regain some, if not all, of its former glory. However, rumors claim that these changes were not as effective as expected, and that as much as 50 percent ... |
2 January 2011
08:06 GMT |
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Myspace has announced a new mobile website and iPhone application which aim to further extend the site’s social entertainment experience to mobile devices. The mobile site is live, while the iPhone app is coming in a few weeks, the social networking company said.Accessible today on all iPhone, iPod Touch, Andro... |
1 December 2010
11:50 GMT |
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MySpace made an inevitable announcement, it is now integrating several Facebook features and enabling users to either login with their Facebook credentials or link their two accounts. With what MySpace calls Mashup with Facebook users will then get linked to the stuff they already like based on their Facebook interes... |
19 November 2010
06:15 GMT |
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Myspace may be the target of a lot of jokes these days, but it still commands a rather large audience and is one of the largest sites in the world and the US in particular. Today, it's starting to roll out a redesign which signals the start of a completely new focus for the site.The new Myspace is a complete ove... |
27 October 2010
09:03 GMT |
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After it was recently revealed that top Facebook applications leaked user IDs to advertising companies, some of MySpace's third-party developers were caught doing the same thing.On Monday, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) broke the news that many Facebook applications, including all in the top ten, were passing use... |
23 October 2010
06:18 GMT |
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MySpace hasn't been doing much lately, or at least it doesn't look like it's doing much, but it has been working on a redesigned logo. The new logo is "My" followed by a space, which is actually not as bad as it sounds. The idea is to emphasize the fact that users are the ones that make MySpace their o... |
9 October 2010
07:22 GMT |
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MySpace is continuing with the long overdue revamp. Having started testing a redesigned profile page, MySpace is now getting ready to roll out a new homepage as well. As with the new profile pages, the homepage is a lot cleaner, with a simpler interface but also does a better job a surfacing things to do on the socia... |
12 August 2010
06:23 GMT |
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MySpace has thrown in the towel a long time ago, in a way, and admitted defeat in front of Facebook’s onslaught. But that doesn’t mean it’s closing down shop, it still has tens of millions of monthly visitors, in the US alone, and the social network has been on somewhat of a soul search lately. The ... |
16 July 2010
09:03 GMT |
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MySpace’s troubles of late may start to look like the good old times once the long-standing Google advertising deal expires next month. The social network has relied heavily on guaranteed ad revenue from Google as part of a deal made in 2006. At the time, the search company agreed to pay $900 million, over the ... |
6 July 2010
05:20 GMT |
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MySpace, the popular social network that aims to focus its platform around social games, has recently launched Games Lab, a program that will invite game developers to the company's headquarters in Seattle and Los Angeles to work together with MySpace personnel for several weeks. The person in charge of the gam... |
24 May 2010
01:56 GMT |
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Web analytics firm StatCounter recently announced that Twitter had generated almost one in ten Social Media global hits to websites during March 2010. StatCounter's research arm, Global Stats, unveiled that the main source of traffic to websites was Facebook, as it accounted for 48 percent of all Social Media hi... |
23 April 2010
01:57 GMT |
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Social networking sites are gaining pace these days, and the competition in the area is increasing accordingly. Among various social media destinations, Facebook and Yahoo are detaching from rivals and are steadily taking over the social web, shows recently unveiled data from comScore, a leader in digital analytics ... |
21 April 2010
11:06 GMT |
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The web is all about the social component these days. It’s not just the obvious services, Facebook, Twitter and the likes, every site out there is trying to tap into your social graph and extend its functionality based on that. One thing that always happens when a group of people come together is ‘sharing... |
19 April 2010
04:26 GMT |
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The promise that comes with the Outlook Social Connector for MySpace is that the add-in is capable of putting the social network inside of Microsoft’s email client. A Beta development milestone of MySpace for Outlook is currently available for download, allowing end users to connect with MySpace friends inside ... |
11 March 2010
08:03 GMT |
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With Facebook at 400 million users and MySpace bleeding more each month, it has been clear for a while now that the social networking wars are over. But don't cast off MySpace for dead just yet, there may be some life in it left, or at least that's what News Corp. is hoping. For the past few months, there h... |
22 February 2010
11:00 GMT |
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Google came a little late to the real-time web party, just like any of the mainstream search engines, but it is now firing on all cylinders and real-time results often pop-up mingled with the regular ones. Google scrapes several sources for the real-time data, Twitter, Yahoo Answers and many others, and now it has ad... |
17 February 2010
05:54 GMT |
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Google rules online advertising, but there's one area where it hasn't made too much inroad, not for lack of trying, display advertising. This is where Yahoo shines, and has always done so, and 2009 was no different. In terms of raw impressions (views), Yahoo had a strong lead in the US with 512 billion imp... |
9 February 2010
07:13 GMT |
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As early as one year ago, MySpace and Facebook were mortal enemies in the social networking war and fighting for the title of the largest social network in the US. At that time, MySpace still had a significant advantage in terms of users, but many knew that the writing was on the wall for the News Corp.-owned social... |
15 January 2010
06:47 GMT |
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Imeem is the prime example that the online music business is far from a safe bet even now, as it's beginning to look like 2010 may finally be the year when music streaming services become viable businesses for the companies running them as well as for the users. The free streaming service has been acquired by M... |
29 December 2009
05:27 GMT |
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The live video streaming space is pretty crowded at the moment, but it's still seeing some very healthy growth. Despite revenue numbers being smaller than they'd like, live streaming services are competing at an increasing pace constantly trying to out do each other. The chat component for these sites has ... |
22 December 2009
09:57 GMT |
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MySpace may be late to the real-time party, but it's going all out now that it arrived. At the Le Web conference in Paris, the ex-social network and future entertainment hub announced that it’s launching several new APIs for developers including the Real-Time Stream API which will enable third-party services to... |
9 December 2009
11:41 GMT |
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Keeping in touch with your friends' activities becomes harder and harder these days and I believe that is the reason why social networking is suck a big success. Unfortunately, not everyone uses the same network and the time you spend checking all your accounts, news and comments grows every day. And, since you... |
8 December 2009
13:01 GMT |
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It shouldn't really surprise anyone at this point, but there are now rumors that MySpace will be rolling out Facebook Connect Integration sometime in the first part of 2010. Yes, the arch-enemies of just a couple of years ago are now making “friend requests.” But 2009 is not 2007, Facebook has clearl... |
5 December 2009
04:37 GMT |
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Despite what its execs may be claiming lately, MySpace is still a social network and a large one at that. It has been bleeding users for the past year or so but the ones that are still around should be glad to hear that the social network has just launched a new mobile version of the site dedicated to iPhone, Android... |
4 December 2009
12:15 GMT |
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Things are as messy as ever in the music streaming business yet most people are surprisingly determined in pushing forward. MySpace is now launching its Music service in the UK after being available in the US and recently in Australia and New Zealand. The free streaming service will offer millions of songs, though n... |
3 December 2009
08:28 GMT |
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The rumors that MySpace is acquiring music streaming service iMeem for a bargain-basement price have gotten some more weight behind them and a deal looks pretty much certain at this point. The deal doesn't paint a pretty picture for the music streaming business and it remains to be seen if MySpace has better lu... |
19 November 2009
09:30 GMT |
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The online music space is in a volatile state with newcomers popping up seemingly every week while older services are dwindling, having failed to reach the popularity they needed to survive. But, while they may not be thriving financially, the online music market is sure to explode in the coming years and already som... |
17 November 2009
11:08 GMT |
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Britney Spears has got her Twitter and MySpace accounts hijacked by vandals looking to defame her. The rogue status updates posted yesterday on her feed made references to Devil worshiping and the New World Order.Britney Spears, Twitter and hackers seem to be a recurring theme. Back in January, she was amongst the vi... |
13 November 2009
05:48 GMT |
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A Web developer has documented a proof-of-concept attack that could have been used to hijack accounts and steal private information on Facebook and MySpace. The attack leveraged a serious security oversight in XML configuration files used to define the cross-domain access policy for Flash applications.The discovery w... |
6 November 2009
08:08 GMT |
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It's common knowledge that MySpace has seen better days, as the once-biggest social network in the world loses even more traffic and users. But at least it had something to fall back on, a $900-million deal with Google running until mid-2010, which would guarantee at least part of its profits. But this isn'... |
5 November 2009
08:34 GMT |
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Google's not-so-spectacular-after-all music service, first rumored last week, is now official and no, it's not an iTunes killer or a Spotify killer for that matter. It's something closer to home for Google, an extension of its search engine dedicated to music. That being said, the music OneBox (Google ... |
29 October 2009
04:04 GMT |
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In a move that wouldn't be completely shocking today as it would have been even a few months back, Facebook and MySpace are apparently in talks for some sort of content partnership. According to The Telegraph, this has been confirmed by high-ranking officials at both companies though the nature of the deal isn&#... |
27 October 2009
09:35 GMT |
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MySpace as a social network has pretty much lost the race. In fact the social network's CEO is the first to admit it, though reluctantly, but says that MySpace is now focusing on an entirely different space aiming to become an entertainment hub rather than a place to connect with friends. The social network is n... |
22 October 2009
06:33 GMT |
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Despite a new-found wave of enthusiasm at MySpace, the social network's decline shows no sign of stopping anytime soon. News Corp., MySpace's parent company, isn't doing great financially either, so rumors that the companies are looking to get rid of Photobucket, the popular photo-sharing site acquired... |
17 October 2009
04:05 GMT |
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A group of scientists has recently published a new paper arguing that monitoring the activity that teens and children have on social-networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, could lead to a decrease in the number of suicides in this age group. Victoria University School of Information Management Professor Dr. ... |
14 October 2009
10:56 GMT |
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Facebook just keeps on growing and its worldwide dominance is matched by its growing share of the US market. The social network has just managed to overtake MySpace in the country less than half a year ago and now it's already distancing itself in terms of market share, grabbing a 59-percent slice. MySpace, on... |
10 October 2009
04:46 GMT |
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While the large social networks are getting all of the attention with Facebook or Twitter constantly in the spotlight it's the developers who create apps for them that are raking in the money. While Facebook is struggling to break even, app developers, especially those creating social games, are making a very ti... |
6 October 2009
09:12 GMT |
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Everyone roots for the underdog and with enough hype you start to believe that the little guy can really threaten the established players. But every so often you are reminded that most of the times size does matter and MySpace demonstrated this handily when it unveiled the two-way sync feature with Twitter last week.... |
29 September 2009
06:02 GMT |
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While the demographic difference between MySpace and Facebook is 'apparent' to anyone who has used the two social networks even briefly, now we have the actual data to back up any empirical observations. According to Nielsen, Facebook is much more likely to be used by more affluent people while MySpace appe... |
28 September 2009
05:37 GMT |
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