Posts Tagged ‘MySpace’

What’s Your Time Online Spent Doing?

As the title of this article asks, what’s your time online spent doing? Do you spend more time viewing news and other content than you do emailing and shopping? Do you play games? What is it that you do?

August 15th, 2007
What’s Your Time Online Spent Doing?

Could Your Facebook Profile Keep You From Landing a Job?

A word of caution for those hunting for a job: make sure that your online profile is “clean” because employers are using information that they find online to help them determine who they should hire.

August 6th, 2007
Could Your Facebook Profile Keep You From Landing a Job?

Time Magazine’s 50 Best Websites of 2007

I always love the “Best Website” lists because there’s usually a handful of sites that I haven’t heard of, or paid much attention to. Time magazine has put together their list of the 50 Best Websites of 2007. They explain it as their picks of “what’s new and exciting about the Web right now.”

July 11th, 2007
Time Magazine’s 50 Best Websites of 2007

MySpaceTV Blatantly Copies YouTube

MySpace TV has launched. Go take a look for yourself and the first thing you’ll probably notice is that it has a very familiar resemblance of YouTube. Yep, MySpaceTV blatantly copied YouTube in more ways than one. While it makes sense for MySpace to take a video-sharing route, they could’ve at least put some effort into making the site their own.

June 28th, 2007
MySpaceTV Blatantly Copies YouTube

Rumors Running Rampant: Yahoo to Acquire MySpace?

Rumors are running rampant that Yahoo is considering acquiring MySpace.  This isn’t just some random rumor either – The New York Times is reporting that News Corp. and Yahoo have discussed the idea. It’s a pretty “loose proposal” as the New York Times says, but the idea has been thrown out there.

June 20th, 2007
Rumors Running Rampant: Yahoo to Acquire MySpace?

MySpace Launches Profile Editor for IE Users

MySpace is all about customization and allowing users to create personalized profiles. However, up until this point, users generally had to turn to outside sources to add that element of customization to their profiles.  There are hundreds of third party sources that offer pre-designed themes and backgrounds for MySpace pages for free.

May 16th, 2007
MySpace Launches Profile Editor for IE Users

MySpace: What We Take Down, Stays Down

MySpace has taken a big step today on trying to filter out copyrighted content in the form of both audio and video. The campaign they launched is called and aims to prevent the reposting of copyrighted content once it has already been removed.

May 11th, 2007
MySpace: What We Take Down, Stays Down

MySpace to Acquire Photobucket?

It takes some effort to keep up with Photobucket and MySpace. Back in the beginning of April, Photobucket and MySpace were feuding for a second time (first time in 2007) after MySpace blocked Photobucket videos and video remixes from displaying on MySpace profiles. Two weeks after that, they were friends again, and now the latest news is that MySpace has decided to acquire Photobucket.

MySpace to Acquire Photobucket?

MySpace and Photobucket are Friends Again

A couple of weeks ago, Photobucket and MySpace were feuding again (round 2) after MySpace blocked Photobucket videos and video remixes from displaying on MySpace profiles. Photobucket turned to their users to protest this move by MySpace and pressure them to change.

April 24th, 2007
MySpace and Photobucket are Friends Again

MySpace Enters Social News Market Today (Thursday)

MySpace is going from social network to social news today as they add on the addition of “MySpace News.” They’re expecting that their 100+ million users will make it the next social news success story as users will be voting on their favorite news items.

April 19th, 2007
MySpace Enters Social News Market Today (Thursday)