Posts Tagged ‘MySpace’

Myspace is positioning themselves to be the next big player in the social TV space. At CES 2012, Justin Timberlake, co-owner of Myspace, took the stage to reveal, “We’re ready to take television and entertainment to the next step by upgrading it to the social networking experience.”

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When Shannon and Joe’s baby was born with blue eyes, Joe was sure that he wasn’t the real father. But he did have some idea who Shannon’s baby daddy was—Tom Anderson from Myspace—and he took her on Maury to find out if his suspicions were correct.

Justin Timberlake is set to take on the social networking responsibilities for real. In the coming year, he plans to turn his creative abilities toward reviving MySpace.

SmartBear Software company released its standard quarterly report for overall Web Performance for Social Networks. The company ranked each social media site by its speed and availability in the third quarter of 2011. By speed means how fast the platform loads on the Internet, and by availability means maintaining its presence on the Internet without crashing.

Even though the rest of the web has moved on from Myspace the site is still the go-to network for a great many musicians, maintaining relevancy with bands that use it to easily track fans, set up (and publicize shows) and host music, photos and news in a single place. The problem is that, as [...]

The New York Police Department is taking advantage of social media information even though the platforms offer privacy settings. NYPD is perusing Facebook, Twitter and MySpace to track criminals who have committed or are planning to commit crimes.

According to newly released report from comScore data, professional social network Linkedin best Myspace in June regarding overall traffic. Linkedin is now the No. 2 most visited social networking site in the U.S. Of course, the increase of traffic started with LinkedIn filed its IPO in May, reaching the ultimate of 33.9 million unique visitors in June compared to Myspace with 33.5 million unique visitors.

News Corp has sold MySpace to Specific Media, a digital media company.  The deals’ details were not disclosed, but reports are speculating that it’s in the $35 million area.  This ends an era for the once social networking leader.

Here’s the latest on Myspace: The floundering social network has not been officially sold, nor have rumored layoffs been officially announced, but that doesn’t mean the (still, for now) News Corp.-owned company hasn’t been in the news.

The ax will swing again at Myspace this week if there is any truth to rumors reported by Gawker.