There are strong reasons to doubt that competitive capitalism will fix social media networks
Web 2.0 companies and social networks have become fodder for the work of Dutch artists writes <strong>Natalie Dixon</strong>.
Twitter and Facebook have teamed up, creating ‘Don’t be evil’ software to counter the tweaking of search results in favour of Google’s social network.
MySpace has been sold to an online ad company for $35-million, a fraction of the $100-million its parent company was seeking for the social network.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. For months the tech press has swirled with persistent rumours that News Corporation is selling MySpace.
The lack of a new blockbuster hit like 2009’s <em>Avatar</em> helped push third-quarter profits down 21%. News Corporation said on Wednesday.
Struggling social network seeks to cut costs as parent News Corp explores sell-off, according to reports.
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/ 9 December 2010
Die Antwoord’s music video for <em>Enter the Ninja</em> has been chosen as the 2010 Video of the Year on social networking site Myspace.
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/ 25 November 2010
The <i>M&G</i>’s <b>Faranaaz Parker</b> rounds up five quirky things you may have missed over the last week.
There was a time, long ago, when Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace was biggest beast in the online jungle of social networking.
Buying a fledgling social networking site is the quickest way for a giant corporation to gain credibility with a youthful audience.
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/ 15 February 2010
Departure of Owen Van Natta, the social networking site’s chief executive, calls into question Rupert Murdoch’s digital strategy.
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/ 6 December 2009
The software-engineering and server-farm infrastructure needed to support 350-million users burns money, and so does the bandwidth they use.
MySpace, the networking site that helped launch the careers of Lily Allen and Arctic Monkeys, said today it would cut two-thirds of its workforce.
The White House took a major leap into Web 2.0 on Friday, launching pages on social networks MySpace and Facebook and sending its first "tweets".
The "Place for Friends" is starting to feel lonely. MySpace, the Rupert Murdoch-owned website, is losing popularity and key staff.
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/ 9 December 2008
MySpace is teaming up with internet search leader Google to extend MySpace’s reach and counter the expansion of their common rival, Facebook.
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/ 3 December 2008
News Corp’s online social network MySpace is about to make video clips from its members’ pages available for viewing on mobile devices.
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/ 15 October 2008
MySpace on Tuesday launched an overhauled karaoke channel that lets amateur crooners post online video of themselves in all their vocal glory.
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/ 13 October 2008
MySpace on Monday unleashed a tool to let small operators with tight budgets easily target online advertising to preferred demographics.
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/ 3 September 2008
Yahoo! has lost its lead of the United States market for online display advertising to MySpace.
Computer security researchers on Thursday warned that online social networking websites are playgrounds for hackers.
MySpace announced on Wednesday it is launching a website devoted to the United States presidential debates.
When are online student comments about lecturers free expression, asks Kate Smith, and when are they harassment?
The popular online hangout MySpace has won a -million judgement over junk messages sent to its members in what is believed to be the largest anti-spam award to date. A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled against notorious ”Spam King” Sanford Wallace, and his partner, Walter Rines.
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/ 26 December 2007
Online social-networking websites saw their ranks swell and values soar in 2007 as everyone from moody teenagers and mellow music lovers to mate-seeking seniors joined online communities. Seven out of the 10 hottest topics that triggered Google internet queries during the year involved social networking.
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/ 27 November 2007
A hunt for Britain’s top university is helping mobile firm O2 tap Facebook’s burgeoning audience and reflects the innovation advertisers need to tap the potential of such sites, analysts say. Social networking sites such as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook are hugely popular with younger internet users — vital but hard to reach for advertisers.
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/ 17 October 2007
Like a gourmet chef who rarely eats out, Google feeds advertising services to hordes of other businesses while skimping on its own marketing. The recipe has been extremely fruitful. While the internet search leader has sold more than -billion in advertising since 2001, Google has become a household name without buying expensive ad campaigns.
With online social networking portals becoming ever more popular, it was inevitable that niche communities would begin to map out their own territory on the web, writes Lloyd Gedye