MySpace, Sony debut ADD-friendly 'Minisode Network'
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Blog: New video network features pared-down episodes of a variety of old TV shows, but claims that the plots stay intact.
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MySpace is moving into a new arena -- casual gaming. The social-networking giant announced a deal with New York-based Oberon Media on Tuesday to create a new, free gaming destination.
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With Facebook slowly creeping up on MySpace, is there room for two social networking sites?
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Zango and cash In Brief A worm exploiting Javascript support within Apple's embedded QuickTime player has spread across the MySpace network.â¦
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Hoping to tap into the growth of wireless networks across college campuses, other public spaces and within homes, Sony Corp. will announce Tuesday a new pocket-sized gadget for instant messaging and other Internet-based communications.
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MySpaceTV, the video wing of the  online community network, late on Sunday unveiled its first  original Web series to give its users a television-like  experience with the interactive benefits of the Internet.
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(InfoWorld) - MySpace.com is launching a new music download service that emphasizes music from independent artists, the latest in a string of services announced in recent weeks that hope to topple iTunes from its crown. Some of the services, such as one backed by Universal Music Group, are even offering music for free, backed by advertising services. But analysts say they'll have trouble toppling Apple Computer's iTunes, which has staked out a solid position in what's becoming a crowded music download market. "Ultimately it's a volume business, and the market isn't large enough to sustain 20 different services," said Jonathan Arber, research analyst for OvumÂ in London. The service from MySpace.com, which is in beta today, lets users sell their own songs through their personalized MySpace home pages. The company has partnered with Snocap, a companyÂ founded by NapsterÂ founder Shawn Fanning, for some of the technology behind the service. MySpace's large user base, which it says is more than 70 million, may be key for the new offering, as it jostles with several other technology and media companies that have allied to secure a piece of the music download market. Last week, Samsung ElectronicsÂ said it would start a subscription service later this year withÂ partner MusicNet. The online store will have 2 million licensed songs from major record labels and 40,000 independent ones. Also last week, a new company,Â SpiralFrog, said it will offer free music downloadsÂ backed by Universal Music Group's catalog, with the service supported by advertising. It's due to launch in beta by the end of this year. While MySpace's service hasn't been formally announced, a marketing executive at the company began touting it on her MySpace Web page on Monday, offering tracks from a group called The Format for $0.79 each. (http://www.myspace.com/danidudeck) The service will let users embed songs in their personalized pages that other users can then purchase, wrote Dani Dudeck, MySpace director of communications. To buy songs, a user needs an account from eBay's PayPal money transfer service and a U.S. billing address. Artists will be able to set the price of their tracks, with MySpace and Snocap keeping a small service fee, according to a story Monday in Business Week magazine. The service could appeal to aspiring musicians, allowing them to skirt business arrangements with music labels and pitch their songs directly to MySpace's users. It's unclear, however, whether the major labels will embrace it. They may be wary of posting tracks on MySpace because the songs will be in an MP3 format without Digital Rights Management (DRM), which restricts how they can be copied and played, Arber said. The means the tracks could potentially be downloaded from MySpace and then uploaded to illegal file-sharing networks. At the same time, he said, the opportunity to set variable pricing for songs offered on MySpace could be more attractive for the major record labels, who have bristled over Apple's insistence on uniform pricing. Individual tracks in the U.S. retail for $0.99 each. Apple has so far retained its lead in music downloads. iPod users can purchase compatible songs from the iTunes Music Store and eMusic.com, but most other services offer songs in incompatible file formats. It's led other companies to try other approaches, such as subscription and ad-supported services, both those each present their own difficulties. Napster and Yahoo have subscription services where users have access to thousands of tracks as long as they continue to pay monthly fees. But the subscription model generally hasn't been that successful, Arber said. Ad-supported services, such as Universal's arrangement announced last week with SpiralFrog, could face competition from more experienced Internet companies. "There are already existing companies that are much better at targeting advertisers on the Web," Arber said.
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(InfoWorld) - MySpace went mobile in a big way on Monday, launching a service that lets Cingular Wireless subscribers use many features of the social networking portal on their cell phones. For $2.99 per month plus standard use charges, Cingular subscribers can download a Java application that lets them blog, upload photos and update their MySpace profiles, among other things. The service, MySpace Mobile, is available now on select handsets. Subscribers can text-message "MYSPACE" to the Cingular number 386. The offering represents the first big mobile deal for the popular News Corp. portal, which claims 80 million active users. MySpace already offers some capabilities to users of Helio, a relatively small-scale mobile joint venture from SK Telecom Co. Ltd. and EarthLink Inc. Many would-be competitors have tried to emulate MySpace's success on the Web, and mobile devices present a new opportunity to capture social-networking users and make them loyal. Other MySpace Mobile features let subscribers read and reply to their MySpace messages, view and manage their friend requests, post comments, and view the profile, friends list and groups list of any MySpace user. For now, MySpace is leaving out video, said Amit Kapur, MySpace vice president of business development. Video may make it onto the service as mobile devices and networks improve, he said. Also, the mobile client cuts down on the elaborate graphics and wallpaper that can make MySpace pages slow to fully load even on the Web. To appeal to the big audience of Cingular's more than 58 million subscribers, MySpace is offering a simpler interface than it does for Helio's mobile-browser-based offering, Kapur said. The process of creating blog entries will be similar to standard mobile text-messaging and can be used for quick, short entries. The entries will appear on both the user's mobile and Web pages. The Cingular deal will be exclusive into next year, but MySpace intends to make mobile access ubiquitous across the U.S. cellular landscape in 2007, Kapur said. It also is looking into mobile offerings in other countries. Today, MySpace Mobile has no advertising. As the mobile advertising market and technology mature over the next few years, MySpace may offer a free, advertising-supported version of the service, Kapur said. Cingular and MySpace earlier this year set up a service that lets MySpace musical artists make songs into Cingular ringtones. The mobile operator's subscribers can also get MySpace Mobile Alerts that tell them via text message when they get messages, comments and other postings to their MySpace pages.
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News Corp. NWSa.N on Tuesday said it   will launch a new service to offer full episodes of its   television shows on MySpace.com and the Web sites of its local   Fox TV stations after they have aired.
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News Corp&#39;s MySpace can tailor  advertisements to its members based on information on their  personal profile pages, after experimenting with technology  over the past six months, The New York Times said on Tuesday.
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Beta of new MSN's video-sharing service called Soapbox available Sept. 19.
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Blog: The social networking company plans to launch an API to connect to other services.
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Cingular Wireless has made a connection with social-networking kingpin MySpace to allow MySpace users to update their online profiles through compatible Cingular phones.
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News Corp. on Tuesday said it will launch a new service to offer full episodes of its television shows on MySpace.com and the Web sites of its local Fox TV stations after they have aired.
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Blog: Real Networks announced today that the new version of their RealPlayer will allow users to download and organize embedded internet video content right from their browser.
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Users of the MySpace.com social networking Website will be able to add multiplayer games to their personal profile pages, and play them for free, from next year. MySpace has struck a deal with Oberon Media Inc. to make available hundreds of casual games from its portfolio, the companies said Tuesday.
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MySpace announced today that through a partnership with Oberon Media, it will add a section of free, multiplayer games to the popular social networking site. Casual games are turning into a huge industry, with growth expected to double to over $500 million in revenue this year.