MySpace's video czar gives details on new 'TV' endeavor
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Blog: Jeff Berman, MySpace's general manager of video, tells CNET News.com about the social networking site's plans for its new MySpace TV, from Flektor to music videos to original programming.
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The popular online hangout MySpace said Monday it will experiment with a video-filtering system designed to block clips containing copyright materials.
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The online community MySpace is partnering with the BBC to bring some of the British broadcaster's programs to a worldwide audience in the site's first global content deal involving a major network.
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Representatives of older and new media companies detailed their embraces of the Internet Friday at the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco, with supposed old-line companies emphasizing opportunities and dismissing any threats to longstanding business models.Executives from CBS, Comcast, Joost, and Current participated in panel sessions on media operations and the Internet. While the Internet might be seen as potentially taking viewers away from traditional broadcast and cable television, panelists noted that TV viewership still accounts for several hours per person daily and continues on its 30-year trend upward.Comcast and CBS officials both noted that the Internet can extend their businesses."We love the Internet for a variety of reasons," said Amy Banse, president of Comcast Interactive Media, which is responsible for the cable TV provider's Internet businesses. People use Comcast's pipe to access the Internet and Comcast is the largest residential ISP, she said.But Comcast also believes in cable TV and that it will be around for a while, she said. "People thought that with television, radio would disappear and with cable television, broadcast television would disappear, and we all know that that hasn?t happened," Banse said.The Internet has enabled CBS to extend beyond its largely U.S.-based audience and to gain "new eyeballs," said Quincy Smith, president of CBS Interactive, which covers Internet operations. "We, CBS, have not found the Internet to be cannibalistic to television," Smith said.Persons who see a two-minute clip of a CBS show, such as "How I Met Your Mother," might be encouraged to watch the program, he said. He recalled how a recent clip of David Letterman interviewing Paris Hilton showed up on YouTube and drew a lot of traffic; this was embraced by CBS, which carries Letterman's show.Asked by panel moderator Josh Quittner, of Fortune magazine, if she was worried about Google, Banse dismissed this."You want me to be a dinosaur running scared. I'm really not," she said. Google has been a "wonderful partner" for Comcast, with people accessing the search site via the Comcast pipe, said Banse.?In a subsequent panel session, officials from Joost, which provides broadcast-quality Internet television service, and Current, which blends broadcast TV with interactive Internet communications, shared their companies' visions."We wanted to bring the magic of the Internet to television, not the dumbness of television to the Internet," said Joel Hyatt, co-founder and CEO of Current. A community has been fostered to submit video that can be viewed on Current TV.Joost, meanwhile, is making peer-to-peer-based video distribution software that can run on PCs and the Macintosh, said Mike Volpi, Joost CEO. High-quality is streamed, with some of it professionally created by companies such as CBS and Viacom. Other content is developed by persons who are not so familiar. Joost is trying to develop an advertising-supported model.Both Joost and Current embrace advertising as a business model."I believe advertising is definitely the way to go," Volpi said. Advertising thus far has not blended well on the Internet because it has been offered in the form of banner ads or keywords, he said. But there are plenty of ad dollars to be gained by going after targeted users, he said.
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Leaked screenshots from Fox Interactive Media reveal the face of MySpace's new Digg-style news site.
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MySpace, the social networking site,  on Tuesday said it formed a partnership with Oberon Media to  create a new gaming channel on the site.
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A Web site that enables its users to store photos and video for inclusion in MySpace profiles will become a part of the popular online hangout.
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Direct selling to cut out record companies MySpace is to start selling some of its music content, the Murdoch-owned social networking site said on Friday.â¦
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After a blog post last week in which celebrated former local TV news director Terry Heaton cited industry insiders as revealing Fox Interactive Media's intention to preparing to launch a MySpace news portal around Newroo technology in the second quarter, FIM officials this morning -- very clearly and ostentatiously -- declined comment.
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NEW YORK -- A Web site that enables its users to store photos and video for inclusion in MySpace profiles will become a part of the popular online hangout.
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It&#039;s only natural for companies large and small to want to capture some of the social-networking magic of MySpace.com, a Web site that has risen out of nowhere to become the Internet&#039;s second busiest by successfully figuring out what teens and young adults want.
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The move could foster some of the chaotic creativity that is more closely associated with its competitor, MySpace.
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MySpace, which we recently wrote about due to its partnership with Google, has shut down hundreds of user profiles as a precaution to a worm which is infecting user computers via MySpace &#038; Apple&#8217;s QuickTime media player. The worm seems to change user profiles and add malicious links and content when the video is played. Joris [...]
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As Paris wound up a frenetic fortnight of fashion shows, hip social networking site MySpace announced the launch of a new fashion channel offering a showcase for designers and fashion makeovers for users.
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Site will run programming from the two networks and hope to compete with YouTube.
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MySpace, the internet site specialising in social networking, claims to be drawing young people away from television and video games as they use its web pages to make friends and money.
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MTV Networks said on Friday that it  would launch two dozen new Web sites based on its shows,  including the entire video archives of Comedy Central's "The  Daily Show" with comedian Jon Stewart.