Tag: myspace
Opinion: Why I am giving up YouTube for Lent
Ashley Norris writes…
In case you hadn’t noticed, this week was the start of what Christians called Lent. For those of you who dozed off during RE let me remind you it is a period of days in which the faithful deprive themselves of worldly pleasures in order to bring themselves closer to the almighty.
Back in the day folks would swap the temptations of alcohol, sex and the odd pillage for a more cerebral life of bible study and quiet contemplation. It sounds fine but not a lot of fun. I for one would have certainly missed the pillaging. Then more recently people started giving up things like chocolate and coffee. Again this is very sensible except for they risk an earlier than expected rendezvous with their maker following a cocoa bean and caffeine fuelled frenzy on Easter Sunday.
Now the Archbishop of Canterbury has weighed in with a call for people to give up squandering the earth’s resources for Lent. By this he means turning off lights when they are not needed, not driving to the shops when you can get the bus and generally reducing carbon emissions. It is all good stuff, but in my book it is not nearly the equivalent of a spot of a self-flagellation, which as you probably know was very popular during Lent. Besides shouldn’t we be doing that all year ’round?
So ignoring Rowan Williams I am going to go for the jugular and do something almost as painful as a few lashes on the back – I am going to give up YouTube….
MySpace Developer Platform coming 5th February
Presuming that you haven’t already deleted your MySpace account, you may be interested to learn that a development platform is launching for the garish, spammy service on 5th February.
Adam over at Mashable caught up with Amit Kapur, newly promoted COO of MySpace, who will be overseeing the new platform.
Though MySpace is rather behind the times when it comes to opening up to developers in this way, Kapur says that they’ve learned from the mistakes of others, and will be immediately addressing issues of privacy, monetisation, and data ownership.
Amusingly, they will be addressing the issue of spam on information feeds — prevalent indeed on Facebook, but hardly something MySpace is immune from.
Today is International Delete Your MySpace Account Day – who's in?
Finally, a reason to log into MySpace! It appears that I’m not the only one who’s fed up with the constant spam friend requests, as today is the first International Delete Your MySpace Account Day.
Blogger Simon Owens came up with the initiative, cataloguing 10 reasons why he was going to delete his profile today. These include the spam friend requests, ‘error’ messages and pages, women being harassed by male users, the loud and irritating music…
Penguin and MySpace offer fans the chance to create the next Bond theme
It’s surely every Bond fan’s dream – to write and record a James Bond theme. And now you have the chance to do just that, as well as win £1,000 of music equipment to go with the honour.
Outshouts – share your music with a personalised widget
Yet another way of promoting your band, with Outshouts offering a personalised widget for each of your online tracks.
Opinion: Social networks reach the parts other sites can't reach – yes, even sexual ones!
Jonathan Weinberg writes… According to MySpace, virtual friends are replacing real-life mates, with more people than ever using the Internet to socialise and find love. Well they would say that, wouldn’t they!
But interestingly, research by the social network has found they are also using the sites to “lose their virginity” with three per cent of under 24s questioned for the poll saying they’d paired up with a ‘friend’ for that purpose…
MySpace turns glossy mag with MySpace Celebrity
If you can’t wait for the latest glossy periodical to pop through the letter box, you could get your d-list fix with the newly-launched MySpace Celebrity.
Opinion: Vodafone gives us an early Christmas pressie and unwraps Social Networking on the move
Jonathan Weinberg writes… I saw a quick demonstration of this yesterday and it certainly looks like being a brilliant idea that I hope other mobile networks follow. With Internet prices dropping like stones across all the mobile firms thanks to bundled ‘unlimited’ data and use of social networking growing by the millions in the blink of an eye, it makes sense to match up the two.
Vodafone has designed a downloadable application that sits on your handset connecting you to Facebook, YouTube, MySpace and Bebo. Nothing majorly new there, because you can surf them at present and many have their own download applications too like the excellent Facebook program for Blackberrys…
Anthrax recruits singer through MySpace, elsewhere Bon Jovi switches from hairspray to hair wax
The metal hair-raisers Anthrax must be getting lax in their old age, for instead of hiring a new singer through the usual ways of scoping dive bars for the most tattooed, grizzliest hairspray consumers, they’ve…recruited through MySpace?
That’s about as interesting as if the metal band went through Adecco.
A musician in the New York area…
My geek web 2.0 social-networking t-shirt arrived!
It arrived! It arrived! My very own social-networking t-shirt from Spreadshirt was waiting on my desk this morning when I arrived at work, and as you can see, I’m a very happy bunny.
I’m as yet to tick off all the sites I belong to, as will wait until I buy a water-resistant marker, but 13 little boxes are screaming out for ticks inside them.
My only complaint…
