Tag: myspace
The waters are getting decidedly murky in the Microsoft-Yahoo takeover, with News Corp looking keen
Microsoft’s courtship of Yahoo became a little less than friendly over the weekend following Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s ultimatum, which included a three week deadline and a threat to usurp Yahoo’s board of directors. Now Yahoo appears to be seeking comfort in the arms of others in order to forestall the takeover while Microsoft is apparently finding more allies to strengthen its advances…
Opinion: Government paedophile plans are a confusing web of ideas
Jonathan Weinberg writes…
OK, so let’s do a straw poll. What do you think would stop a sex offender abusing children? I know this is not a comfortable topic but it is an extremely important one in tech and Internet terms. Stiffer sentences maybe? The threat of castration? A life term in jail? Perhaps even death by lethal injection?
We’ve all had those “If I were Home Secretary” moments and this is one of them because the plans today released by the UK’s Home Secretary Jacqui Smith seem the worst kind of limp proposals for such a serious matter…
MySpace Music finally announced, with Universal, Sony BMG and Warner all signed up
I was going to write this afternoon about the rumours regarding MySpace Music coming through the wires getting hotter and faster, but before I had a chance, they only went and issued a formal press release about it!
As expected, they’ve entered a partnership with Universal Music Group, Sony BMG and Warner Music Group, which will offer music services on MySpace, a site that’s been known as a music community ever since all the sensible people fled to Facebook in 2007. Enhancing the MySpace Music platform already in place, they’ll offer DRM-free digital downloads, ad-supported audio and video streaming, a mobile store plus plenty of other knick knacks…
Social networks need to be more useful, so stop poking me and get a job!
After last week’s cry from those with the cash that there are too many social networks, more voices are calling for social networks to become more useful.
That follows comments from Google’s co-founder, Sergey Brin, saying that they hadn’t yet found the best way to advertise and monetise social networks, and statistics which suggest that the popularity of social networks are declining a little…
'Let's spend the fortnight together' (sorry) – Imeem stream Stones' latest album for 2 weeks
The Rolling Stones are streaming their latest album for free on Imeem, a week before it hits stores. Shine A Light (no new stuff, just old stuff, live), soundtrack to the forthcoming Martin Scorcese documentary of the same name (which is all about the Stones, incidentally), drops on April 1st.
MySpace to stream next month's US NME Awards live
Well I guess the first piece of news is that the NME is taking its awards ceremony (“the world’s most influential”, apparently) over the Atlantic to Hollywood for what looks like a one-off moneymaking exercise.
Yahoo, Google and MySpace teaming up to create OpenSocial Foundation
We know all about Google’s charity work – now deadly rival Yahoo and the still-going social network MySpace have all joined together to create a non-profit social networking development tool.
The OpenSocial Foundation is designed to give the community a neutral (ie, DEFINITELY NOT MICROSOFT) social networking standard. Based around Google’s existing…
MySpace offers you the opportunity to soundtrack user-generated feature film
Fancy being next John Barry? Or even David Holmes? Well, you can enter the world of soundtracking with MySpace, which is offering the chance to soundtrack Faintheart, the first user-generated feature film – which is being released in UK cinemas in the autumn.
MySpaceTV to host endless Britney Spears videos thanks to deal with TMZ
Guess what, everyone? MySpace is still going!
And it’s still doing deals to cram yet more content onto its already bewilderingly packed and ramshackle pages, with news that it’s embracing the dodgy celebrity paparazzi scene.
TMZ, the famed gonzo celeb-stalking channel, will provide a few exclusive videos of something like Britney Spears GETTING OUT OF A CAR each week…
Opinion: Why I'm not surprised people are bored of Facebook!
Jonathan Weinberg writes…
You can have too much of a good thing, isn’t that how the saying goes. Who wants sex, chocolate and alcohol every minute of the day? Eventually you’re going to getting a little tired of the same old daily routine.
I speak as a self-confessed Facebook addict when it first launched. I spent ages on there, ensuring I had more friends than everyone else on my friends-list, updating my status every five seconds, adding new pictures and sitting there transfixed by what my increasing social circle was up to. It’s like voyerism, only legal, and without the naughty stuff.
Why did it bothered me X was visiting the farm, or Y was updating their profile from their mobile while sitting on the toilet? I’ll tell you why, because it was new, it was innovative and it was a distraction from everyday life.
But since Facebook has become my everyday life, my interest has waned. I’ve not changed my status in nearly a week, last put snaps up before Christmas and my Blackberry battery is staying juiced-up for longer as I neglect to check it while on the move.
So it doesn’t surprise me that Facebook’s user numbers are falling. So-called “Facebook fatigue” has been highlighted with a five per cent drop from 8.9 million unique visitors to the website in December to 8.5 million last month. But it’s still 712 per cent higher than a year ago and nine per cent higher than three months ago….
