MySpace users with mobile phones are about to find out if they can walk and watch TV at the same time.
On Wednesday, News Corp's online social network will make video clips from its members' pages available for viewing on mobile devices including the BlackBerry Bold, Palm Centro, Motorola Q9, LG Voyager, Nokia N95 and Samsung Instinct.
Members will be able to look at video on their own homep
While OpenID is one of the more interesting online identity concepts, usability issues have clearly hampered its mainstream adoption. Flock, MySpace, and OpenID provider Vidoop have now come together to develop a browser extension for Flock that makes using OpenID a lot easier for Flock users.
MySpace is not known for good design. Its garish profiles make designers nauseous. And yet, there are signs of hope: we’ve tracked down 50 MySpace music layouts that are quite remarkable. Stylish. Stunningly well-conceived. Beautiful, even.
Could it be that MySpace profiles aren’t all bad? You be the judge.
Lori Drew has been convicted of three misdemeanor counts of computer fraud in the MySpace suicide of young Megan Meiers, 13 when she hung herself.
A jury deadlocked on a fourth count of conspiracy but reduced the charges from felony to misdemeanors. Said Tina Meiers, Megan’s mother:
“For me it’s never been about vengeance,” she said.
Courtney Holt, an MTV executive, will be named as president of MySpace Music, possibly as early as Monday, according to a source close to the company.
MySpace Music is the digital music service formed by News Corp. and the four largest recording companies. Some observers say that MySpace, with a well-established history of offering music, could emerge as a competitor to Apple's iTunes.
Guns N' Roses fans who have waited 17 years to hear the rock band's new album are mere hours from having their patience rewarded with a free Web debut before it goes on sale next week.
Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy will make its debut on the band's MySpace page starting Thursday, according to a Reuters report Wednesday.
This morning MySpace announced their new Primetime application which brings in all of Hulu’s content and makes it accessible to the MySpace user base. This agreement also brings in an additional 150 million pages to MySpace for them to display advertisements on. This is a huge agreement for MySpace as the company has been releasing a number of new video services for users that benefits the primary content owners.
The only problem with the application as far as I can tell, is that MySpace doesn’t provide substantial promotion for Hulu from the site’s navigation bar.
YouTube and MySpace are two of the hottest social Web sites on the Internet, and with good reason. One is a huge database of video content, the other is a social networking powerhouse. It's easy to add a YouTube video to your profile on MySpace.
Add yet another social network to the list of highly-specialized services looking to connect people with one particular thing in common. We've seen DoggySpace, a social networking service for those who have had alien encounters, a site for toddlers, and even U.S. spy agencies are getting in on the action.
Considering Veterans Day, which, of course, was yesterday, it seemed only appropriate that we'd get MyVetwork, a social networking service for veterans and their families.
Last Thursday John Battelle sat down with MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe and Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman to discuss the future of music.
Some interesting things were said, including remarks by Bronfman that Warner will only sign new artists if they agree to give the label a cut of all possible revenue streams. But the biggest story about the talk, by far, was this: MySpace may be creating a music device.
At least that’s what dozens of blogs and mainstream news outlets reporte. A sample:
