Is MySpace News Hiring?
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A job posting for social news site Newroo, which was purchased by Fox Interactive Media last year, hints at the possible future launch of
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On the Web, the competition for most popular site can be as intense as the race for the pennant or even the Presidency. So news that up-and-comer MySpace.com beat incumbent Yahoo! (YHOO) for most monthly page views for the first time in November understandably grabbed headlines.
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MySpace next week will begin providing APIs to developers looking to create applications to run on the social networking site.
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MySpace, the online social networking site owned by News Corp, is in talks with music companies to launch an advertising-supported free music service, according to several reports on Wednesday.
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Tabloidtakeovertastic... Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is considering swapping MySpace for a stake in Yahoo!â¦
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Blog: A source close to the hire hints that longtime tech writer Newitz, currently a freelancer for Wired's blog network, will be at the helm of a new title from the NYC-based blog network.
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MySpace will let its users send and receive messages, comment on pictures, post bulletins, update blogs, find friends and update their mood status on cell phones.
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Blog: Alex Welch tells CNET News.com that there had never really been any plan to become a MySpace division--Fox Interactive was the prospective buyer the whole time.
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FakeYourSpace.com offers users of MySpace.com a way to enhance their pages by hiring âfriendsâ for money.
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MySpace is now showing &#8216;Powered by Google&#8217; next to its search box which is featured on the MySpace home page, admin pages, and profile pages.  Google and MySpacestruck a landmark deal last August which assured Google search and AdWords would be the MySpace search engine and sponsored ads programs of choice.  Furthermore, the partnership is also [...]
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Social networking giant MySpace will open its platform to outside application developers,&#160;a move that was made months ago by its close competitor Facebook&#160;and helped boost its popularity.Chris DeWolfe, MySpace&#39;s CEO, made the announcement during an appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday.The first step in opening the platform will be the creation in the next week or two of a catalog of existing widgets from third-parties that MySpace has allowed on its social network for the past four years.Then MySpace will open its platform broadly to outside developers at some point in the coming months, said DeWolfe.MySpace will have a &quot;sandbox&quot; where applications will be given test-drives by a portion of its members, to make sure the applications are safe and secure, before they are deployed to all users, DeWolfe said.However, DeWolfe said that the overall intention is to make it easy to incorporate the applications into MySpace. &quot;The idea is that, at the end of the day, most of these applications will come to MySpace,&quot; he said.MySpace will also let developers generate advertising revenue from the applications they build for the site, he said.Since opening its platform to external developers in May, Facebook has built up a catalog of about 6,000 applications, which it credits with increasing its members&#39; engagement on the site and their enjoyment of it.Facebook&#39;s popularity has grown very quickly this year, as the site has grown to 47 million active users today from 12 million in December, according to company statistics. Over half of its active members return to the site daily.In June, MySpace had 114.1 million unique visitors worldwide, up 72 percent from the same month last year, according to comScore Networks. Meanwhile, Facebook had 52.2 million unique visitors in June, up 270 percent from June 2006, according to comScore.Until now, MySpace has granted access to its platform on a case-by-case basis to developers that request it, but it doesn&#39;t have open APIs (application programming interfaces), a source of much criticism for the company in this Web 2.0 age when mashing up applications has become so popular.DeWolfe shared the stage with Rupert Murdoch, CEO of MySpace&#39;s parent company News Corp., and both answered questions from conference chair John Battelle and from audience members.With some people putting Facebook&#39;s value at around $15 billion, Murdoch was asked how much he thought MySpace would be worth and whether he would consider &quot;unlocking&quot; that value by selling the company or taking it public. Murdoch said nothing of the sort is being considered for MySpace.The Web 2.0 Summit ends on Friday.
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News Corp.'s (NWSa.N) MySpace.com is  in talks to bring the social-networking site to China with  Boston technology trade publisher International Data Group's  Chinese venture arm and former China Netcom Group Corp.  (0906.HK) Chief Executive Edward Tian, the Wall Street Journal  reported on its Web site on Friday.
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News Corp.'s  Fox Interactive  Media on Monday said it selected Google Inc.  as  MySpace.com's search system in a multiyear search and  advertising deal that also covers some of Fox's other  properties.
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(InfoWorld) - Stepping up efforts to keep sex offenders off MySpace.com, the popular social networking Web site has partnered with an online identity and background verification company to build a U.S. national sex offender database and dedicate staff to checking the database against MySpace profiles. Sentinel Tech Holding Corp. will build a searchable database containing information on sex offenders in the U.S. who are registered with various federal and state law enforcement agencies. The database, which will be frequently updated, will include details such as name, age, physical appearance and distinguishing features like tattoos and scars. MySpace staff will monitor the site 24-hours-a-day for sex offenders who are on the list. They'll remove any matching profiles that they find. MySpace has been lobbying for new legislation that could help it take the program one step further. The company wants a law that requires sex offenders to register their e-mail addresses in a national sex-offender database. The law would stipulate that the use of an unregistered e-mail constitutes a parole or probation violation, forcing offenders back to jail. If such a law is passed, MySpace can more easily identify sex offenders that have profiles on its site, the company said. MySpace has been criticized for enabling profiles by registered sex offenders. Earlier this year, journalists around the country began cross referencing sex-offender databases with MySpace profiles, finding matches and publicizing their results. MySpace responded by hiring a chief security officer to oversee safety and law enforcement affairs and introduced an advertising campaign to promote online safety. MySpace still faces some thorny issues. For example, most sex offenders aren't legally forbidden from creating a MySpace page so it's unclear if MySpace will receive some backlash for removing profiles.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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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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How does a MySpace executive announce his resignation? On his MySpace page, of course. Fox Interactive president Ross Levinsohn wrote Friday in a blog post that he would step down effective November 27.
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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.