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MySpace's Music Focus Pays Off
The social Web space is abuzz with new developments and entrants these days. Facebook's IPO. The explosion of Pinterest. The rapid evolution of Google+ into a place where the President of the United...
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Video of the Week: History of the Animated GIF
In the early days of the Web there was a lot of experimenting going on. It was a brand new world where almost anything seemed possible. Decades later, many of those dreams have come true and new...
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Shareholders pushed Facebook’s stock up slightly last week after reassuring comments from CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In the process, they overlooked a significant decline in two key areas reported by...
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Justin Timberlake Is Bringing Myspace Back To The Desktop, Where No One Will...
Myspace is back. It even has a pre-launch page where you can put your email address. In case you need a desktop-focused social network for sharing cool things you like that isn’t already called...
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[Video] Myspace: "I'm Not Dead Yet!"
Adam, Brian, Jon and Robyn discuss the future of the music business, which has come up in several RWW stories lately, in our latest Google+ Hangout. Brian describes the argument he just had with a...
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The Return Of Myspace: Company Pres Roger Mincheff Aims To Make History All...
Myspace is dead: Long live Myspace. The late social network known for garish user-generated designs is back in a bid to become what its leaders say it should have been from the beginning: a home for...
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Yes, MySpace Is Launching A Spotify Competitor. It Has No Choice
MySpace is planning to get into the music subscription business - because let's face it, it's got to do something. The move into music subscriptions has been rumored for quite some time, but Monday...
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Cheating DeathWatch: Myspace
The ReadWrite DeathWatch is known for serving up plenty of doom, gloom and grumpiness. But for the Holiday Season, we're taking a slightly different tack - highlighting companies, technologies and...
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Sorry Mr. Timberlake, But There's No Reason To Care About Myspace
Myspace may have picked a bad day to open up its redesigned site to the public. While the dethroned social networking giant quietly opened its gates Tuesday morning, everybody in the tech world was...
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8 Soaring Videos That Reach The Edges Of Earth
Editor's note: This post was originally published by our partners at <a href="http://www.popsugar.com/tech/Space-Flight-Videos-27687922">PopSugar Tech</a>.For a seventh-grade science...
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Myspace Plays Catch Up: Allows Users to Record Videos From Webcam
While social networks can sometimes overlap in features, there are a selection of features that you can only find on one network or the other. This has been the case for Facebook and Myspace users for...
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MTV to MySpace: Post Our Content, Please
From the moment people had the ability to upload video content to the Web, they took the liberty of posting anything and everything they could find - whether they owned the rights to the content or...
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Google Now Includes MySpace Status Updates in Real-Time Search Results
MySpace and Google just announced that starting today, status updates from MySpace users will appear in Google's real-time search. MySpace announced its real-time Stream API in December and Google...
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Outlook Sees First Trickle of Social Stream
Everybody is getting in the game. Google just announced Buzz, its social feed add-on to Gmail, last week and today Microsoft is bringing the feed to Outlook. Microsoft first announced its social media...
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Open Thread: Can MySpace Really Make a Comeback?
For months, we've been fielding rumors (and filtering out the facts) about MySpace's proposed redesign and rebranding.Tonight's report on TechCrunch outlines a few minor details of the overall plan to...
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How Did MySpace Become Number One on Android?
When MySpace announced earlier this week that they had now established themselves as the number one social networking application on the Android platform and the number three download overall,...
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While Facebook & Twitter Sit on Sidelines, MySpace Jumps Into Bulk User Data...
MySpace has taken a bold step and allowed a large quantity of bulk user data to be put up for sale on startup data marketplace InfoChimps. Data offered includes user playlists, mood updates, mobile...
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How US Government Spies Use Facebook (Updated)
The US Department of Justice this week released slides from a presentation deck titled Obtaining and Using Evidence from Social Networking Sites. The document was released in response to a Freedom of...
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MySpace Launches Events Platform
A couple of months ago, we asked whether MySpace could make a comeback. Since that time, they've become #1 on Android and jumped into bulk user data sales. Today, MySpace has unveiled a new events...
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PTA-Endorsed SocialShield Keeps Kids Safe on Facebook and More
A company called SocialShield has launched new technology aimed at keeping children and teens safe on social networking sites like Facebook. Using patent-pending "Safety Engines", the service scans a...
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MySpace Bleeding Money; News Corp Promises "Overhaul" Soon
The category of News Corp's business that includes MySpace lost $174 million in the fourth quarter, worse than the $136 million it lost in the same period last year, the parent company said during its...
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MySpace Planning "BIG Stealth Project"
MySpace is hiring for a "BIG 'Stealth Project,'" according to job listings that have popped up over the last few days.MySpace is in for a "major overhaul" in the next few months, owner Rupert Murdoch,...
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Twitter Passes Myspace to Become Third Most Trafficked Social Network
In its climb up the social networking ladder, Twitter - the service that many mainstream Internet users still like to equate with inexplicably sharing what you had for lunch - has surpassed former...
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MySpace's Last Gasp: We're All New! (We're Still a Social Network)
Today, MySpace is launching what may be its last-ditch effort to save itself before owner News Corp makes other plans, or even sells off the ailing company. With the launch of the "new MySpace," a...
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Poll: Will You, For One, Welcome Your New FaceSpace Overlord?
It's done. The battle between Facebook and Myspace is finally over. Yesterday, the two companies made a joint announcement introducing "Mashup with Facebook", a feature that brings all of your...
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Twitter Hires Away MySpace Director of Business Development
Companies used to pay millions of dollars to splash advertisements on the front page of MySpace, back when that social network was the hottest one on the web. One of the people in charge of selling...
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News Corp Has Finally Had It: Accepting Bids for Myspace
The death knells of the first generation of social media platforms continue. A day after Friendster announced that it would be deleting photos and blog posts from its platform, reports surface that...
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Breaking Up With Your Favorite Apps
NPR music podcast All Songs Considered just released a show about breaking up with your favorite bands. It got me thinking about favorite web apps or services that I've broken up with. So in the...
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With New Music Ambitions, Facebook Will Continue Where MySpace Left Off
Facebook is now "getting serious about music and media," writes Om Malik on GigaOm.com, revealing unannounced details regarding the social network's new ambition to be a place to discover music with...
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MySpace Relaunch Will Put its Focus Back on Music
When the site relaunches later this year, former social networking heavyweight MySpace will aim to reclaim the position it once held as a preeminent hub for music. MySpace went through several...
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This Week in School Internet Censorship
We posted last year about the prevalence of cyberbullying on social networks. The longer-term consequences of that are just now finding their way into our legal system, and this week the US Supreme...
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67% of Online Adults Use Social Media To Stay In Touch With Friends
In a new study released today, Pew Internet Research found that 66 percent of American adults online use Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn. They cite staying in touch with family and friends as...
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Tech's Doomsday Plots: How Your Favorite Tech Giants Could Lose Their Edge
When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone five years ago, it was a happy day for the Apple faithful. Less so for the folks at Palm, whose employer became a ticking time bomb. In one move, Apple leapfrogged...
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