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Are You Ready For Myspace TV?

Megan O'Neill — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:25:10 +0000

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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Hilarious: Guy Thinks Myspace’s Tom Anderson Is The REAL Father Of His Baby [Video]

Megan O'Neill — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:52:36 +0000

When Shannon and Joe’s baby was born with blue eyes, Joe was sure that he wasn’t the real father. After all, neither parent has blue eyes and, when asked if he thought he could make a blue-eyed baby Joe responded, “No you can’t! Can two cats produce a dog?” But Joe 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.
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Justin Timberlake Will Have an Office and a Staff of Six for MySpace Relaunch

Kenna McHugh — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:50:49 +0000

Similar to his role as Sean Parker in The Social Network, 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.
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Facebook Still the Fastest Social Network; LinkedIn and Twitter Close Behind

Kenna McHugh — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:58:46 +0000

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.
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Headliner.fm: A Social Network for Musicians

Reid McCarter — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:45:37 +0000

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 so many superior social networks have been set up, Myspace has become dated and lost its appeal for the general public. A new service, the recently launched Headliner.fm looks to reinvent music-based social networking by streamlining Myspace’s best ideas and combining these with great, original features.

The premise of Headliner.fm is simple: help artists get in touch with each other so they can more easily form networks and share fans. While this sounds like it shouldn’t be anything revolutionary, as someone who plays in a band, it’s an extremely welcome tool that should, if properly advertised, become a mainstay for indie artists seeking to promote their work.

Headliner comes equipped with many useful features. The meat and potatoes of the service — getting an artist heard by networking with similar musicians — is handled through integrated linking to social mainstays like Twitter, Facebook and, yes, Myspace. By taking advantage of a Hootsuite-styled posting system, Headliner users are able to queue up news and releases, allowing for timely promotional announcements of shows, fresh material and more. Artists have to approve of one another’s posts as well, meaning that it’s in the best interest of Headliner.fm members to filter out unnecessary, spammish messaging in order to keep their profile attractive enough for potential listeners to pay continued attention to.

The entire system runs on the virtual currency of “Band Bucks”, a kind of points system that rewards interconnecting with others. Band Bucks are earned by helping to promote other artists and can be spent on asking others to spread a message in turn. This system is a simple but intelligent way to keep the whole network under control while providing ample reward for artists who invest time and energy in getting the most out of the service. Combined with in-depth analytics that allow users to monitor how their music is being received (for instance, checking the number of times their songs have been re-posted on Facebook walls), handled through a deal between Headliner and SoundCloud, the site seems to have thought of most everything that aspiring artists could want from a new social network.

Such a sound foundation makes Headliner.fm well worth paying attention to for both casual audiences and musicians. The ability to so easily discover and/or network with similar acts while simultaneously promoting music is something that hasn’t been properly offered by another social network to date — and this may be all that Headliner needs in order to become popular. We’ll have to wait and see how the site develops over the coming months in order to really say whether or not it’s a success (initial user figures look promising) but, if nothing else, the concept and execution is exciting enough to already deserve praise.

Check out Headliner.fm at its official site for more information or visit the company’s Vimeo page for a quick demo reel of the service in action.

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NYPD Uses Social Media to Catch Criminals

Kenna McHugh — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 08:40:08 +0000

The NYPD plans to use online policing to collect information about gang showdowns, murder cases, problematic house parties and other forms of destructive social activities.
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LinkedIn Bests Myspace For U.S. Visitors, Taking No. 2 Spot

Kenna McHugh — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:41:04 +0000

According to newly released report from comScore, 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. MySpace decreased in numbers from 34.9 million in May. But, Myspace has new owners, so we might see a change in the numbers in the ensuing months.

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News Corp Lets Go — MySpace Gets Purchased by Specific Media

Neil Vidyarthi — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:06:53 +0000

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.

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Myspace Speculation Continues; No Official Word Yet

David Cohen — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:10:04 +0000

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.

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Myspace Employees Facing Ax This Week?

David Cohen — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:10:58 +0000

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

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EU Reports: Social Networks Fail to Keep Children Safe

Kenna McHugh — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:30:46 +0000

“I am disappointed that most social networking sites are failing to ensure that minors’ profiles are accessible only to their approved contacts by default. I will be urging them to make a clear commitment to remedy this in a revised version of the self-regulatory framework we are currently discussing,” stated Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission for the Digital Agenda.
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92% Social Network Users are on Facebook, 13% are on Twitter

Kenna McHugh — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:45:13 +0000

The Pew’s 85-page Internet report places Facebook on a pedestal, high above all other social networking platforms. Betanews describes the report best “smooches up to the social networking service in just about every conceivable way.” If you look over the Pew report, you can’t help but notice that Facebook has essentially changed how people spend their time online.
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Myspace Continues Music Push with New App, Homepage

David Cohen — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:24:01 +0000

Myspace continued to forge ahead with its renewed focus on music, announcing the launch of the Myspace Artist Web App, along with a redesign of its Artist Home Page.

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New App Creates Harmony Between Myspace Music, Facebook

David Cohen — Thu, 12 May 2011 16:00:41 +0000

The integration of former fierce rivals Myspace and Facebook continued with Wednesday’s release of the Myspace Music Artist App, which allows artists to publish all of the content on their Myspace Music profiles to Music tabs on their Facebook fan pages, without having to manage profiles on two separate social networks.

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Manny Pacquiao Hijacks Myspace on Day of Shane Mosley Fight

David Cohen — Fri, 06 May 2011 18:50:54 +0000

WBC Super Welterweight World Champion and WBO Welterweight World Champion Manny Pacquiao will get in the ring with Myspace Saturday, as the consensus pound-for-pound No. 1 boxer will “Hijack” the social network to promote his bout against Shane Mosley in Las Vegas Saturday night.

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