MySpace launches free mobile service
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Another string to social networking bow MySpace has fired another salvo in the battle for social network supremacy with a free mobile version of its website.â¦
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MySpace takes personal profile-advertising matchmaking program for a walk.
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MySpace enters the casual gaming space.
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In an attempt to directly compete with rival social networking site Facebook, MySpace announces it's preparing its own app platform to launch Tuesday, Feb. 5. Developers can sign up now and start building widgets and games to run as native MySpace applications.
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MySpace announced a deal with US mobile telephone service provider Cingular Wireless to enable users of the teen-oriented website to take their online journals on the move.
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MySpace is about to make it possible for developers to build applications that can run, and make money, on its site.
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Rains down spam, opens door to users accounts A handful of enterprising people - at least one of them a teen - has devised a Javascript that allows its owner to temporarily access the browser's MySpace account, according to a security professional who was among the first to publicly write about the service.â¦
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Facebook took a new step into the mobile realm on Thursday, launching a platform for operators designed to make its social networking application work better on portable devices.Vodafone is the first operator to use the Facebook for Mobile Operators platform and has started services in the U.K. and Germany, said Jed Stremel, Facebook&#39;s director of mobile division. Vodafone will soon expand the program to Greece, Italy, Spain, Ireland, and Portugal.The platform involves giving operators a set of technical specifications intended to resolve some of frustrating hang-ups when using Facebook on a mobile phone rather than a PC, such as smoothing out login problems and opening up other features, Stremel said.The move by Facebook, which ranks next to MySpace as one of the most popular social networking sites, is intended to grow its user base, which the company estimates at 64 million users. So far, the company says it has 6 million users of Facebook Mobile, an unsupported mobile version of the Web site that will now get full support, Stremel said.At the moment the mobile site does not have any advertising. Stremel would not reveal the financial details of Facebook&#39;s deal with Vodafone, although he said operators will be able to generate revenue from data services as their subscribers access Facebook.The long-term hope for social networking sites is&#160;rich online advertising revenue. Facebook, which has an&#160;exclusive deal with Microsoft to place ads on the site, also did not say when it would put advertising on the mobile site.The company is hoping to lure more operators by the simplicity with which they can enable Facebook, Stremel said.Facebook has created special Web pages with instructions on how operators can set up their systems, he said. The instructions, for example, let operators add system settings that will let their subscribers send MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) with photos or video to their Facebook profiles, Stremel said.The platform also includes other specifications designed to stop abuse of Facebook, such as spamming, Stremel said. When someone sends their first MMS with a photo to their profile, the user is sent back a confirmation message with a code or a link. That confirmation then links that person&#39;s phone with their Facebook account, Stremel said.&#160;
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MySpace is moving into new territory. On Monday, the Fox Interactive Media property announced it would launch a series of new, ad-supported mobile Web sites targeting mobile device users.
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A free music service partly funded by adverts has been launched by social music site Last.fm
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A Silicon Valley start-up is gearing up to embed free, Web-based telephone services on a variety of popular social networking and blogging services, including MySpace, Friendster and Blogger.
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A mobile music service that enables users to download music to many cell phones has been launched by a British startup.
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With rival Facebook's open API gaining traction, MySpace on Wednesday said that it would launch its own API on February 5.
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Software vendor Oz says it will release new software that will cellphone users to connect to social networking sites such as MySpace.
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British mobile phone company Vodafone  Group Plc unveiled a deal with News Corp's MySpace on Wednesday  that will allow its customers to access the popular web-based  social network using cell phones.
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By Kelly Proctor, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Jun. 23--Social networking sites such as MySpace aren't restricted to teenagers or to hard-wired computer users anymore.
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British telecoms giant Vodafone has said it has signed the first European deal with MySpace to allow its mobile phone subscribers to access the social networking website.