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MySpace to launch online games channelPosted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on Oct 23, 2007 8:37 AM Subscribe Alerts: News Corp.-owned MySpace has announced a partnership with with casual-game maker Oberon Games, part of Oberon Media, to create a dedicated "channel" on the social networking site, featuring of social...[Read the rest]

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Official: MySpace Platform: In a Q&A session last night at the Web 2.0 conference, Rupert Murdoch and MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe revealed details on the much rumored plans for the MySpace Platform, a... [Read the rest]; Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Oct 18, 2007 10:13 AM
"Quarterlife" exclusive to MySpaceTV: MySpace has bagged itself some more professionally-produced online video content, to "air" exclusively on the social networking site. "Quarterlife", a production developed by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, creators of... [Read the rest]; Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Sep 13, 2007 5:37 AM
"MySpace Fashion" launches: After over a year of existing in "Beta" status, MySpace has launched a revamped version of its fashion community, dubbed "MySpace Fashion", to co-inside with start of next week's New... [Read the rest]; Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Aug 28, 2007 9:31 AM; 1 Comment
Lonelygirl15 gets some "exclusive" MySpace company: The season finale of the hit web video series, Lonelygirl15, is to be available exclusively on MySpace. And in an interesting and innovative twist, the final episode will actually be... [Read the rest]; Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Aug 2, 2007 5:03 AM
MySpace, a place for finding talent?: 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... [Read the rest]; Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Jul 26, 2007 4:31 AM
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. [Read the rest]; Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Jul 23, 2007 9:32 AM
The Facebook effect: MySpace to open up: 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... [Read the rest]; Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Jun 29, 2007 5:27 AM
Research: Myspace and Facebook are different class: Research by Danah Boyd suggests that the two social networking sites reflect existing class structures. [Read the rest]; Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Jun 25, 2007 11:10 AM; 1 Comment
Facebook and MySpace are like chalk 'n' cheese: Broadly speaking the two sites cater for different demographics, solve different problems, and in terms of strategy -- with Facebook's new platform -- couldn't be further apart. Yet they both... [Read the rest]; Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Jun 21, 2007 4:58 AM; 9 Comments
YouTube: What MySpace can teach Google about copyright: Will Google CEO Schmidt's "wait for the tools" banter on media giant Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement legal claim at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference this week... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: Jun 1, 2007 2:48 PM
MySpace wins Photobucket, Over Google?: UPDATE: May 30: "MySpace wants photobucket? Where is Google!", I asked earlier this month (see story below). Alas, News Corp. is the lucky buyer after all, at an undisclosed price. "The... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: May 30, 2007 10:00 AM; 2 Comments
MySpace Friends: Rupert Murdoch is NOT the boss!: Rupert Murdoch is not the boss of me! So believes Eli Pariser, Executive Director, MoveOn.org Political Action, and he wants fellow civic organizers to believe the same. In a joint... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: May 18, 2007 1:37 PM
MySpace polices video copyright: Where is Google YouTube?: MySpace is the worlds leading lifestyle portal, as it not so modestly describes itself; The lifestyle portal is owned by an "old" media company, News Corp. YouTube is the premier... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: May 11, 2007 12:37 PM; 10 Comments
MySpace launches 'Take Down Stay Down'; Facebook does classifieds; MySpace: Microsoft's biggest competitor?: The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… [Read the rest]; Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: May 11, 2007 10:05 AM; 1 Comment
MySpace buys Photobucket: After an on/off relationship it appears that the number one photo sharing site has been acquired by the number one social network. [Read the rest]; Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: May 7, 2007 2:31 PM; 1 Comment
MySpace to 175 million friends: It's OUR Space, not yours!: “Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you if you’re young at heart,” so croons Frank Sinatra. Maybe, but the very young are getting their hearts broken at... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: May 3, 2007 1:17 PM; 14 Comments
MySpace China, a place for censorship: The look and feel of MySpace China may resemble its US cousin, but its editorial policy couldn't be more different. Perhaps an inevitable concession to doing business in the country,... [Read the rest]; Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Apr 29, 2007 5:21 AM; 3 Comments
MySpace: Worth it, or not?: UPDATE: What a difference five months makes in gauging the economic marketing worth of MySpace to advertisers? If the "nuggets of wisdom" gleaned by Forbes from research presented by MySpace... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: Apr 24, 2007 9:53 AM; 3 Comments
Web 2.0 copycats: Google stumbles, MySpace digs: Yahoo checked out Google’s ecommerce play Tuesday, Google stumbled upon a roll of the dice Web site recommendation tool yesterday and MySpace digs social news aggregation and voting today. Where... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: Apr 19, 2007 12:15 PM; 1 Comment
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... [Read the rest]; Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Apr 19, 2007 9:36 AM
Social Networking for the masses: Rise of 'The Sleuth': Is social networking really just a young persons game? Is MySpace the only social networking game? (see Web 2.0 ages: Poor old media?)NO. There is a social networker in each... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: Apr 17, 2007 12:30 PM; 1 Comment
Web 2.0 ages: Poor old media?: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction! The Rolling Stones sang it, and Rolling Stone is feeling it, from the blogosphere!Rolling Stone magazine, once a must read for all music and pop-culture... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: Apr 13, 2007 10:56 AM; 1 Comment
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… [Read the rest]; Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Apr 13, 2007 5:04 AM
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. MySpace has always been like the... [Read the rest]; Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Apr 11, 2007 7:20 AM; 3 Comments
MySpace, the election: MySpace is to hold a 'mock' presidential election, open to all MySpace users who reside in the United States, regardless of whether they are eligible to vote in the official... [Read the rest]; Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Apr 3, 2007 10:24 AM
Google vs. MySpace: Is YouTube doomed?: Jeff Jarvis ordained $150 billion market cap Google “God,” last week, no joke. In January, he publicly thanked YouTube, for “changing the world and society,” in the guise of a... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: Mar 26, 2007 6:37 PM
Is MySpace's widget policy upsetting users?: MySpace's abandonment of its laissez faire attitude to commercial activity hasn't gone unnoticed by users. The New York Times reports on one of the site's earliest and most high profile... [Read the rest]; Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Mar 20, 2007 8:22 AM; 3 Comments
MySpace, a place for friends (and presidential hopefuls): Following in YouTube's footsteps, MySpace has created a page dedicated to aggregating the official profiles of those US presidential hopefuls that have embraced the social networking site. [Read the rest]; Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Mar 19, 2007 9:38 AM; 2 Comments
Embarrassed by MySpace foolishness or your criminal convictions? Erase them!: Your reputation is at stake whenever you go online and shoot your mouth off. Your reputation is at stake when you end up drunk and half (or fully) naked on... [Read the rest]; Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe in Rational Rants on: Mar 16, 2007 10:17 AM; 5 Comments
Social network traffic up 11.5 percent; MySpace still dominates: According to Hitwise, the US market share of Internet traffic to the top 20 social networking sites grew by 11.5 percent from January to February 2007, to account for 6.5... [Read the rest]; Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Mar 15, 2007 6:14 AM; 10 Comments