MySpace

"We are definitely not in any ongoing talks for a sale of MySpace, " he said on the sidelines of the Allen & Co organized media conference.

He is now trying to bring his MySpace website there with help from his wife, Wendi, who is Chinese.

MySpace puts communication and self-expression at the forefront, with communication with your friends really being the point of each page.

I remember when MySpace was at its height of popularity it was referred to as a "relationship killer. "

Dow Jones has stripped off the gloss he enjoyed from MySpace and made him look like an old guy with print in his veins.

Two years ago, he even looked as if he had "got" the internet better than others, having bought MySpace for $580m in 2005.

It grew rapidly from its origins as a site focused on members' musical interests into a more eclectic network.

MySpace began life as part of the News Corporation with the same sort of hoopla that now surrounds Facebook.

Communication on social networks Facebook and MySpace should happen a few times a week.

"Naked agent f. b. i. " : Screen name of a Shanghai white collar worker who posted revealing photos of herself on her Myspace blog.

He posted a notice on his MySpace site about the party and 500 people turned up to his suburban home in Melbourne on Saturday.

A year ago News Corp executives talked about relaunching the site as an entertainment focused site.

Few new social networking companies are trying to steal market share from Facebook, MySpace or the other big entrenched networks.

A new social-networking site called MySpace was just starting to make waves. And the word "twitter" was reserved mainly for birdsong.

But MySpace's blunder was to try to force-feed content to users by completely cluttering their homepages with links to it.

At MySpace I tried to digest that "inbox" and "community" by myself, and that worked pretty well for a few years.

MySpace said the number of visitors to its European sites had risen more than 68 per cent in the past year, to about 25m per month.

Operations in London, Berlin and Sydney are to become primary hubs for MySpace's international operations.

Among the widgets available today, Yahoo has announced an eBay widget, a CBS Entertainment widget, and a MySpace widget.

Producer and author Laurie David mentioned the Ideal Bite site and linked to it on her MySpace page.

On the contrary, the studio was able to use Twitter, MySpaceMySpace and its own social-themed site to promote the film.

In the summer she launched a website with social-networking features that works as a sort of MySpace for freelancers.

They predicted that Murdoch, known for his conservative politics and commercial impulses, would turn off the freewheeling MySpace community.

MySpace, he believes, will prove to be "high fashion" and therefore high risk, while NBC's strategy is to be "a general retailer" online.

Social networks are a lot like nightclubs, and Friendster was the place to be in 2004 and '05, before MySpace came along and stole its mojo.

The agreement also calls for MySpace to hire an independent examiner for two years to monitor how the site handles consumer complaints.

A year earlier, Rupert Murdoch had bought MySpace, a rival whose audience even today remains bigger than Facebook's, for $580m.

A growing number of firms have established their own pages on MySpace, to which users can link.

It could be argued that with more time and more marketing dollars, we might have been able to change users' perceptions of Myspace.

News Corp started turning MySpace into a music-oriented site after its rivals Facebook and Twitter eclipsed its popularity.

MySpace issued a statement saying it "does not tolerate cyberbullying" and was cooperating fully with authorities.

We couldn't communicate on MySpace and Facebook about nudism since we were all kind of embarrassed.

MySpace confirmed that Keller had left the company but declined to comment further.

In the end it was hosted services like Blogger and MySpace that really turned online diaries into a mainstream activity.

The only real difference was a more concentrated focus on music.

The company launched a new version of the site in October centered on music, movies and entertainment for the 35-year-old-and-under crowd.

Tony Stark: Yes. Yes it's very cool. I don't wanna see this on your myspace page. Please, no gang signs. No, throw it up. I'm kidding.

At MySpace we had the luxury of having social first, and building the products on top of that layer.

Between Mahjong and Minesweeper he manages to squeeze in a few hours on MySpace, and then he plays RPG's(Role-playing game) 'til midnight.

Google is unlikely to want to pay such a high price again, given MySpace's declining popularity and disappointing advertising revenues.

High Growth: Facebook has one of the fastest growth rates, and could potentially overtake MySpace if these rates continue.

This is currently just a beta product, but MySpace will roll this service out globally over the coming weeks.

I particularly like the way he tells us on his MySpace entry that his "sexual orientation" is "straight" .

If you carry a mobile phone, write e-mail or post entries on MySpace, being out of sight does not mean being out of mind.

And they are creating a social networking system that will seek to be a sort of MySpace for the change-the-world crowd.

The rise of Bebo also undermined MySpace's dominance, while Twitter is among the latest novelties eating into users' attention spans.

News Corporation, which owns MySpace, is said to be seeking a buyer for the business.

Miller said News Corp is planning another reinvention of the beleaguered site with a relaunch expected later this year.

The search king, which pays a special rate to place ads on MySpace, has suggested that it may be paying too much.

It would be interesting to see how this changes as sites such as Facebook and MySpace become more apparent in our everyday lives.

Google has a contractual agreement with News Corp to place advertisements on its network, MySpace, and also owns its own network, Orkut.

Richmond's police have started monitoring Facebook, MySpace and Twitter messages to determine where the rowdiest festivities will be.

One in every four US residents uses MySpace, while in Britain it is as common to have a profile page on the website as it is to own a dog.

In some situations, content posted on MySpace has been used in court.

For me, MySpace, Twitter, Facebook and many other social networks have been positioned more as entertain channels, anything but business.

But with social-networking giant MySpace unveiling its new music service Sept. 25, I'm becoming less smug by the moment.

Unlike MySpace, it had clean and elegant profiles.

Not every datacenter will be able to replicate MySpace's costly feat of hardware compression, though.

Sure enough, she became a MySpace sensation. Two million people are recorded to have logged on to her live stream video.

MySpace, which used to dominate the social-networking arena, has come to look like My Empty Space.

There's this thing called my space where, you can post all this information online.

An ad-free nonprofit with only a fraction of the users and funding of MySpace, CouchSurfing's challenge is different.

In September, RBC Capital markets analyst Jordan Rohan said MySpace might be worth $15 billion in three years.

To take advantage, the News Corporation property partnered with Snocap in September to provide digital music retail tools for MySpace users.

Some formerly high-flying Internet businesses like MySpace, owned by News Corp. , have been brought to earth by the recession.

Fifty-nine-year-old Lori Drew allegedly helped create a MySpace account that purported to be for a 16-year-old boy.

More MySpace execs will soon be leaving, voluntarily or not, as Van Natta fills the gaps and adds loyal lieutenants.

MySpace in particular, needs to be a catalyst for trust among its users and advertisers.

MySpace has a legitimate defence that many of its users do not infringe anyone's copyright.

MySpace also announced that LG will preload the MySpace Mobile application on the next-generation of its Windows Mobile 6. 1 phones.

Yahoo! was originally interested in MySpace, the biggest social network, but lost it to News Corporation, a media conglomerate.

If you've ever clicked a text ad on MySpace, About. com or any thousands of blogs with "Ads by Google, " you've got Susan Wojcicki to thank.

(NWS) agreed to sell MySpace to a PE-backed online ad network called Specific Media for a paltry $35 million.

As a result, it will not receive all of the $900m that Google had agreed to pay for the right to offer search and advertising on MySpace.

"We have to make MySpace a very Chinese site, " Mr Murdoch told a media conference organised by Goldman Sachs.

In a bid to cut costs, MySpace also has laid off more than 400 workers, or 30 percent of its staff, in the United States.

Instead, they update their profile pages on Facebook, MySpace or other social networks.

Insisting on real names is supposed to combat spam. MySpace struggled with it in the past and Twitter "spambots" crop up from time to time.

Essentially, (and I won't be liked for saying this), Sound Cloud is like myspace. com, albeit more slick.

The victim apparently posted something against one of the girls on MySpace.

The 21-year-old singer, who rose to fame on the back of her MySpace page, presented herself to police yesterday.

Thanks to the "network effect, " MySpace soon became the place to be online.

The ability to post high score as Facebook or MySpace status updates helps increase the visibility of the game amongst potential customers.

But a recent post on ZDNet suggests that MySpace revenue has climbed significantly since then.

Jonathan Miller, News Corp's head of digital media, is widely believed to be calling the shots at MySpace.

MySpace is introducing separate guide pages for all the major cities in the United States.

MySpace provided a way for those bands to promote their music and reach a wide network through social networking.

In early November, both Facebook and MySpace announced new schemes that would allow advertisers to more closely target messages.

Leading social networking sites MySpace and Facebook continue to maintain their traffic but struggle to ignite significant revenue growth.

In conjunction with the sale, Myspace slashed its work force yet again, laying off more than half of its roughly 450 employees Wednesday.

In conjunction with the sale, Myspace slashed its work force yet again, laying off more than half of its roughly 450 employees Wednesday.

The restructuring will affect all divisions and regions, Chief Executive Mike Jones said in a statement on Tuesday.

The report forecasts that MySpace can be one of the top 10 service provider in 2008.

They make videos out of email spam and multimedia projects from MySpace profiles, and make a case for Web surfing as an art form in itself.

Indeed, during a press conference today, MySpace specifically stressed that its new service will always emphasize reviews from friends.

Facebook, which allows people to keep track of what friends say and do, was not even the largest such network; MySpace boasted more users.

Some people do this on their Facebook or MySpace pages, or in one of dozens of online gratitude groups.

The explosion of bombs outside his Iraq home had drowned out the buzz around YouTube, MySpace ( NWS), and the new, user-generated Internet.

Websites like Facebook and MySpace along with microblogging site Twitter have become immensely popular amongst teenagers and children.

Where is the forum for audiences to share user-generated content and opinions, as they do on YouTube and MySpace.

Executives from MySpace's parent company, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, held meetings this month with state attorneys-general.

MySpace doesn't quite make a comeback, but gets a fresh start ofsorts with its music and entertainment offerings.

From reading press reports this week, one might think Yang and others were geniuses to sell back in 2005.

In October, MySpace's smaller rival Facebook and New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo agreed to settle a child safety probe.

By making their personal verdicts on the candidates public, users can influence the virtual "community of friends" who view their pages.

Big media is least likely; the ghosts of the AOL and MySpace deals still haunt the corridors of Time Warner and News Corp.

He says that "we have to find ways, without destroying its character, of getting more advertising revenue. "

This being the 21st century, he does what any self-respecting modern-day superhero would do and sets up his own MySpace page.

The company on Tuesday said about 300 of 450 employees in offices outside of the US would lose their jobs.

If they'd been corrected, I believe both MySpace and Facebook would have thrived as different types of social networks.

It also lacks the ability to pull in content from other social networks, like some third-party apps do with LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace.

A group of sites including MySpace, Facebook's main rival, is pushing an "OpenID" button that works with any participating social network.

Since then, I've been able to reflect upon my experience there.

Five years ago Rupert Murdoch was hailed as a visionary when he shelled out $580 million for MySpace.

In October MySpace launched "Artist Dashboards" and integrated its music video vault with recent acquisition iLike.

MySpace will also announce tools for small businesses to create ads and deliver them to relevant audiences on its network.

When last seen, MySpace's visitor numbers were still plummeting, and nobody knows how to turn it around.

As a candidate, he had four times as many friends as his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, on MySpace. com.

Soon after this speech, Mr Murdoch bought MySpace, an online blogging and social-networking site wildly popular with young people.

Explain, why you added me to your myspace friends.

On Facebook or MySpace , there's good reason to be careful about who you befriend .

MySpace released details of its restructuring, which will eliminate 500 jobs, or half its worldwide workforce.

They say MySpace is preparing to block all widget providers over time and will let only those who pay a "toll" back in.

His medical center also has a Facebook page, a MySpace page and a Twitter feed.

It now ranks as the top social game developer on MySpace and the fourth largest on Facebook.

Jason Hirschhorn, chief product officer at MySpace: Wonders about how they'll limit developers working on the platform.

Some sites keep a very professional approach (like LinkedIn) while others have a more organic, free-form look (like MySpace).

He is widely expected to return MySpace to its roots in entertainment.

Some sites approach this by giving users almost full control over the way their profile page looks (MySpace).

Jones is a well respected executive who has proven product experience (something sorely lacking at MySpace).

In fact, he strongly opposed the original sale to News Corp. , believing that MySpace was being severely undervalued.

Social networking is booming, and big contenders like MySpace and Facebook are racking up millions upon millions of users.

MySpace, which has more than 100m users, declined to comment on the cost of the campaign.

You too can put the oil price dashboard on your web site, Blogger page or blog.

My oldest daughter, Chloe, is in high school, and she's into gadgets and MySpace and Rock n Roll.

News Corporation has sold its ailing social networking site MySpace to online advertising firm Specific Media.

He set up the program to search the lists for 46 U. S. states and ran the code on the MySpace database servers housing member profiles.

Rivals such as Friends Reunited and MySpace have seen 'average session times' drop off, which then led to a reduction in visitor numbers.

To begin with, MySpace Music is free, and users get instant access to a vast library of songs.

THE HOST: Now then myspace, I say the team website, that has had a spot of bother in recent days.

Microsoft would bring its web brands, MSN and Live, and News Corp would add its new-media jewel: MySpace, an online social network.

fold. The company also has been pursuing a smattering of small deals, such as its recent sale of the Myspace social network.

Commercial activity includes selling ads on a MySpace page through their widget or software.

In August, Google signed a $900 million deal with News Corp. to provide search and display advertising to MySpace users.

As ReadWriteWeb has said in the past, "Whereas MySpace is still a website, Facebook has become an entire eco-system. "

Create a page on Facebook or MySpace for your company or product.

Each participant heard a short clip of a song downloaded from thesocial-networking website Myspace.

By doing this, MySpace execs say they're hoping to protect their company from copyright-infringement lawsuits.

You can now get a MySpace branded credit card and rack up points to download free music on the site.

Universal's suit claims that MySpace, owned by News Corp, is a "willing partner" in copyright infringement.

The MySpace account registered to your email address is been scheduled for cancellation and will take effect within 48 hours.

According to his post, the 2006 revenue forecast was $200 million and most of it was based on monetizing banner ads.

A petition then circulated and Facebook and My Space pages were created with the same theme.

Finalize your name, and register it with every service you can think of (twitter, wordpress, myspace, etc).

There are over 200 million registered users on MySpace. If MySpace were a country, it would be the 5th largest in the world.

MySpace and Fusion-io recently announced they are working together to reduce costs associated with datacenter operations.

In the early days of their marriage, Wendiwas steeped in Rupert's business, especially the social-networking site MySpacein China.

Editor's note : This guest post is written by Tom Anderson, the former President, founder and first friend on MySpace.

MySpace's new "hypertargeting" strategy scans profile pages for keywords and sells ads against them.

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, MySpace just made some major announcements.

The online social networking site MySpace is to cut nearly half its global workforce.

MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids.

MySpace, according to the white-paper, plans to replace over 1700 of their remaining 2U servers as they reach their end-of-life.

Examples are telephone networks, email, fax, and social networks (Myspace).

In June Owen Van Natta, the site's new boss, announced plans to cut hundreds of jobs at the bloated operation.

His oldest daughter, then 11, was the first in the family to create an account, on MySpace. And it was without her parents' permission.

Microsoft has also held talks with News Corp about combining its internet operations with MySpace.

MySpace users can then learn about particular candidates, and comment or express support on their own MySpace pages.

Meanwhile, time spent on MySpace's nearest rival, Facebook, has remained relatively flat.

OpenTable's new offering is more limited than MySpace's, of course, but the two pieces of news create an interesting juxtaposition.

The Android app for social-network site MySpace sent age and gender, along with a device ID, to Millennial Media, a big ad network.

Fans from everywhere also make Cascada number one in Germany for the most visited "MySpace" page.

MySpace just announced that it will bring its Open Platform to Windows Mobile phones.

But acquisitions such as MySpace have benefited financially by being part of a much larger corporate enterprise.

MyMusic's solution is simpler, and far better, I think: it lets you know what your friends are listening to.

You can also take a game badge to embed on your blog, or social networking profile, like MySpace, hi5, Piczo, etc.

The social nets created through Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and other sites are actually complex support circles.

Ms Dolce, who goes by the alias ForBiddeN, boasts around 900, 000 "friends" who link to her MySpace page.

Customers include MySpace, LinkedIn, and comScore.

Last July, Photobucket still got 54% of its traffic from MySpace, but last month, that number had declined to 38%.

News Corp's websites, including MySpace. com, are planning to sell films and shows from the group's Fox network.

A number of current MySpace execs are hoping for the job, particularly Jeff Berman , president of sales and marketing.

So the person you're looking for likely has a Friendster, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, or Xanga account?

Researchers say more than half of young people who use MySpace often discuss high-risk behaviors.

Ironcially, in 2010 your going to see MySpace on that list.

The move follows last week's restructuring in the US, when MySpace said it would cut its workforce there by 30 per cent.

MySpace has almost willfully discouraged older people, smarter people, and more mainstream people from joining.

It allows one click publishing to sites like MySpace, Facebook, Friendster and Xanga.

It is not even the biggest; MySpace boasts 114 million residents, while Facebook is home to fewer than half that number.

I don't think a large consumer campaign would have significantly changed the outcome for Myspace.

And companies like eBay and MySpace have built profitable businesses that couldn't exist without the contributions of users.

MySpace, which is part of Fox Interactive Media, is probably the best-known online group in Los Angeles.

He says MySpace uses a reporting system that's more transparent and accessible than Facebook's.

In the past year, more big advertisers have also begun to campaign on MySpace.

Once the top dog in social media, MySpace's popularity has been overtaken by Facebook.

You can even create MySpace or Facebook postings through it or keep your address book organized.

Expanding abroad has become a key source of audience growth for Facebook and MySpace, the largest U. S. social network.

I wanted to know if it could be done -- if we could revive a legacy Internet brand that had so many challenges.

Since acquiring MySpace nine months ago, its user base and revenue have more than tripled - according to the article.

MySpace has also gotten in on the act, looking for models, comic book artists and producers.

Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads.

There is even speculation on blogs that, as is feared for its failing rival MySpace, the website could one day 'sputter into oblivion'.

IN 2007 Danah Boyd heard a white American teenager describe MySpace, the social network, as "like ghetto or whatever" .

Redpoint also invested another $4 million in February 2005 for a specific stake in MySpace.

MySpace won't say how big its song library is but admits it trails rivals like Rhapsody and iTunes.

See what else they're reading. Check out their MySpace and Friendster profiles and view their Flickr photostreams.

Ms Kantrowitz says MySpace has also seen increasing advertiser interest in pan-European campaigns.

YouTube and MySpace are both fine examples of this.

Post on MySpace Profile: Don't forget about the world's second largest social network when sharing your favorite articles.

Other recent discussions with AOL and MySpace could lead to alternative deals to boost Microsoft's presence online.

No one talked about MySpace or the other social networks. We just talked about Google.

Post the link to your MySpace profile so your friends can enjoy it too.

We draw neat diagrams showing MySpace started to die as Facebook sprang to life, etc.

She's also represented MySpace on numerous conference panels.

Murdoch has experimented with the republican world of the internet, with MySpace, which News Corporation bought for $580m in 2005.

So our practice has a Facebook page. It has a MySpace page.

' Leslie Cochran, a street resident in Austin, Texas, who has twice run for mayor, has 10, 775 'friends' on his MySpace page.

There are also shortcuts for setting up accounts for Picasa, Photobucket, Bebo, LastFM and MySpace.

"Professional content alongside user-generated content will be a big theme in 2007, " says Richard Rosenblatt, a former chairman of MySpace.

Um, Ted? 2006 called, and it wants the hackneyed geopolitical analysis back. . . . and sent via MySpace.

His dad had seen suicide threats that Schlicker had posted on MySpace then took away his internet access.

" Before posting on MySpace, ask, " 'Are these photos you would show to your mom?

Even social networking sites such as Facebook or MySpace are exploited to polish up the personal brand.

Amazon, AOL and Yahoo all score high, with MSN and MySpace trailing behind.

MySpace offers Valentine-themed videos and other graphics users can exchange.

Anyone viewing the user's profile would be similarly infected and so Samy's fame and popularity quickly spread to 1m MySpace members.

The biggest of the sites, MySpace, launched in August 2003 and now has more than 200 million accounts worldwide.

A viewer simply clicks on a button on the relevant MySpace page.

In the most recent quarter, the division that houses MySpace reported a $156 million operating loss.

Our choices were restricted to The Arbor Day Foundation, 2012 Olympics, IKEA, or Myspace.

Although MySpace has focused more on entertainment such as music, it has steadily seen its visitor numbers drop.

Throw in songs from the 5 million artists who already have pages on the site, and MySpace has a pretty good starter set.

How could News Corp. , of all companies, run by a 75-year-old media mogul, possibly know what to do with an Internet community like MySpace?

In March 2009, MySpace became the first major social media provider to publish feeds in the Activity Streams format.

I suggest you don't go searching for information about your kids on MySpace.

Thirty one percent monitor their children's Facebook accounts and almost 70 percent are friends with their children on Facebook or MySpace.

Myspace have taken them down now but it could happen again.

They are fully integrating Facebook Connect into their website which is great news for those nonprofits utilizing MySpace.

I have been told many times by the young people, say, hey, you should check on Twitter, or hey, you should check on Myspace.

Baidu created a shopping mall of Web offerings, many of them imitations of popular Web sites like MySpace.

For online users are fickle: look at the collapse of social networks MySpace and Bebo.

Market leader MySpace is also investing in helping its users share media.

The MySpace widget, like several others, will be ad-supported.

Eighty of the top 100 brands advertise on MySpace.

Even those participants who reported using MySpace said they had used the site less in the past six months.

Meanwhile, startups such as MySpace and Facebook redefined community interactivity, concepts honed or created by AOL.

Remember, these were in the days when MySpace still had 4x or 5x more users than did Facebook.

Video ads on MySpace reportedly fetch just $25 per thousand showings; CBS charges $50 on affiliated sites, NBC as much as $75.

He also created a functioning replica of MySpace's log-in page.

In 2005, when he was 19, he created a computer worm that caused MySpace to crash.