Topic: MySpace Inc.

More De-friending at MySpace: 300 International Staff to Be Cut

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Jun 23, 2009 at 8:49 AM

The axe is falling yet again on MySpace, this time on the social networking site's overseas offices. The company announced today it intends to cut 300 workers, or two-thirds of its international employees, from its foreign ...READ»

BUSINESS ARCHITECT | Comment

Have You Defined your Social Architecture?

BY Paul Arthur Bodine
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Sep 3, 2009 at 10:18 PM

The world of business discovered social media in 2009. Business professionals are setting up professional Facebook pages, groups and fan pages for themselves and their companies in a way they never did with LinkedIn, MySpace or Plaxo. ...READ»

INTERNET + WEB | 8 comments

Does Online Popularity Translate Into Sales?

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Aug 30, 2006 at 1:45 PM

Today, while reading "5 Brands Make Their Mark on MySpace," on iMedia Connection's web site, I wondered whether social networking popularity could actually translate into sales for a company. I doubt that befriending thousands of ...READ»

MYSPACE | 3 comments

Auto-Played Out: MySpace Music Streaming Drops 20%

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 2:30 PM

In mid-August, MySpace switched off the "auto-play" feature on its musicians' embedded audio players. The move was supposed to save MySpace money; every time one of those songs queued up, the company had to shell out royalty fees--as ...READ»

INTERNET + WEB | 2 comments

MySpace Seeks Relationship with Google

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Wed Oct 11, 2006 at 7:20 PM

Following Google’s $1.65 billion deal to purchase YouTube this Monday, News Corp’s MySpace.com has announced interest in expanding its own relationship with Google, and plans to meet with the search engine giant later this week ...READ»

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT | Comment

Not Everyone Loves MySpace

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Nov 22, 2006 at 1:19 PM

At a time when most music artists are embracing MySpace as an extension of their marketing plan, Jay-Z wasn't too delighted that MySpace served its site members a sneak preview of his entire new album last week. Kingdom Come, the ...READ»

ETHICS | 2 comments

MySpace vs. Sex Predators

Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Dec 5, 2006 at 5:40 PM

MySpace is hatching a plan to fend off online sexual predators, but will it work? According to an article in today's Wall Street Journal, the social networking site is building a database of sex offenders that will include names, ...READ»

TECHNOLOGY + COMPUTERS | 6 comments

MySpace Tightens Security

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jan 19, 2007 at 11:11 AM

Last night I attempted to login to MySpace to accept a friend request, but the system wouldn't let me in. When I attempted again this morning, I noticed that the site had added CAPTCHA (a type of challenge-response test used in ...READ»

INTERNET + WEB | 13 comments

MySpace is Starting to Suck

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Feb 28, 2007 at 1:25 PM

The fun thing about MySpace was the ability to customize your profile page with widgets from other (smaller) services such as media-sharing service Imeem or social content-sharing site esnips or slideshow-generating service Slide, or ...READ»

MEDIA | 6 comments

Will Reuters call it "MyMoney?"

Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Mar 2, 2007 at 11:29 AM

Have social networking sites taken over the world? Or maybe it just seems that way because everything I do gets posted to the newsfeed in Facebook within seconds. If you don't know what I am talking about, you must be one of ...READ»

INNOVATION | Comment

Road Rage in the age of Facebook

BY andrew couch
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Oct 9, 2008 at 3:34 PM

Online On Your Blackberry? Drivers Text Message and Post their Road Rage Driving in traffic is full of idiotic rude drivers and your impulse to roll down the window and give the obligatory middle finger or in some people's ...READ»

CULTURE | 8 comments

If Time is the New Currency...

BY Danielle Sacks
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Aug 16, 2006 at 12:56 PM

Talk to anyone in the ad industry these days and the mantra de jour is: time is the new currency. Brands, entertainment, technology...you name it, we're all competing for the public's attention. And if someone is willing to spend ...READ»

FREE BACKGROUNDS | Comment

MySpace Layouts, Designs and Backgrounds are the Internets hottest trend

BY skize mycommentcodes
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Feb 12, 2009 at 5:32 PM

Premade MySpace layouts are an exceptional way to tune your profile. If you are looking to put up a little area of your own on the network, then possibly you may desire to consider MySpace. As these layouts are wonderful resources to have fun with our own personal profile. These templates will be able to customize in numerous dissimilar ways to turn out millions of different MySpace web pages.READ»

WEB PR | Comment

White House Embraces Social Media.

BY Richter10.2 Media Group
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu May 14, 2009 at 10:51 AM

What is Social Media? Wikipedia defines it. “At its most basic sense, social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share news, information and content.” With the success of Barack Obama’s ...READ»

MYSPACE | Comment

MySpace: A Place for Friends No More

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Jul 2, 2009 at 8:53 AM

After laying off 30% of its U.S. work force and gutting its overseas operations, MySpace's leadership promised radical change, and it seems that change is finally here. In an effort to reverse declining viewership, boost advertising ...READ»

CAREERS | Comment

Study: Do Social Networks Improve Your Life?

BY Rusty Weston
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jan 25, 2008 at 7:37 PM

Ever wonder what those millions of other people joining social networks plan to do once they're there? Beyond throwing sheep on Facebook or becoming a fan of hip-hop stars on MySpace, many people join social networks to better ...READ»

MYSPACE | 1 comment

Former Facebook COO Owen Van Natta Taking Over at MySpace [UPDATED]

BY Noah Robischon
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Apr 23, 2009 at 3:43 PM

Since yesterday's announcement that Chris DeWolfe is stepping down as MySpace CEO, all sorts of juicy details have begun to circulate. The widely held assumption is that the executive shake-up is the work of newly anointed ...READ»

INTERNET + WEB | 21 comments

More Trouble for MySpace

Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Jun 22, 2006 at 8:21 PM

A 14-year-old Texas girl is suing MySpace for $30 million, alleging that a man who misrepresented himself on the site sexually assaulted her. Within days of receiving an online message from the 19-year-old, who claimed to be a high ...READ»

MYSPACE LOCAL | Comment

MySpace Partners With Citysearch for "MySpace Local"

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 12:45 PM

In a Web event this morning, MySpace announced a new service called MySpace Local in partnership with Citysearch that will debut in open beta next month. Using the latter's database of 75,000 local businesses, MySpace has created ...READ»

INNOVATION | Comment

Can You Launch the Next Big Thing in a Crowded Market?

BY Shel Horowitz
Relevancy Score: 100
Sat Mar 21, 2009 at 7:25 AM

<em>Someone in a LinkedIn gorup asked, "Is there an opportunity for a startup online business to become a successful brand when there are so many established players?" I think my answer is relevant ...READ»

CAREER DEVELOPMENT | 1 comment

MySpace, MyResume?

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Aug 8, 2006 at 2:08 PM

With the increasing use of blogs and social network services such as MySpace, it's more true than ever that you are your references. In the past, human resource professionals might Google potential employees as a spot check. Now, ...READ»

BLOGJAM 2006 | 3 comments

Social Networking: A Status Report

Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 12:53 PM

It's been a few years now since two business magazines named Social Networking Applications the Technology of the Year. I thought it might be worthwhile recapping how far we've come since then, and trying to understand why we haven't ...READ»

MYSPACE | 1 comment

MySpace Cuts 400 Staff as Facebook Takes the Lead in U.S. Visitors

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Jun 16, 2009 at 4:48 PM

In the largest de-friending in its history, MySpace cut 30% of its workforce today in an effort to save money and offset falling advertising revenues. Ominously, the layoffs came the same day reports emerged that rival social ...READ»

COLLABORATION | Comment

Your Online DNA...Social Networking for Business Part 2

BY Sherman Mohr
Relevancy Score: 100
Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 6:23 PM

Innovation in today's business environment calls for accepting the need to be visible online. You will be searched and researched. This relatively new process for learning about vendors, prospects, employees and others is one of ...READ»

INTERNET + WEB | 15 comments

My Week on MySpace

Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Apr 20, 2007 at 5:36 PM

Yesterday, I wrote a blog post about the safety of social networks. I would personally like to rescind that and talk about how I have since been violated by the lack of security on MySpace. While I am still a firm believer in ...READ»

Topic: MySpace Inc.

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