MySpace Friend Updates Arrive. Is Anyone Still Using MySpace?

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Upon logging into MySpace this morning, I noticed the new “Friend Updates” area, MySpace’s attempt to mirror the Facebook News Feed. Unfortunately, all that was there was a message to the effect of “there are no recent friend updates.” After clicking “edit subscriptions” I noticed that MySpace had only auto-subscribed ...

Flektor and MySpace Officially Unite

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Fox Interactive Media have completed the assimilation of Flektor to their collective today, and are announcing integration of MySpace log-ins into Flektors multi-media management tool suite. This does little for MySpace users, as the tool suite was already freely available to anyone who may have happened by the site, ...

comScore: MySpace Continues Domination of Facebook

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Gian Flugoni of ComScore released some data the company recently presented at the Forrester Consumer Forum that speaks to the ratios of visitor and ad impression shares between MySpace and Facebook. The numbers are interesting, and the implications admittedly difficult to interpret, but the raw numbers come as no ...

MySpace News Feeds, Coming to a Profile Near You

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Newsfeeds. Everybody’s got them, and MySpace wants them too. You’ll find them added to your account in the next month or so, alerting you to all of your friends’ activities. This isn’t the only time MySpace has moved to better emulate Facebook, which seems to have ...

Best of Mashable: MySpace

Monday, November 26th, 2007

MySpace - still the king as far as sheer number of visitors goes, but just a runner-up when it comes to features. However, as far as news go, no social network has gone more mainstream than MySpace; there’s a whole virtual world there, and you can’t afford not to take ...

Hey, Kids, MySpace Can Hurt You

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Whenever some agency creates a site aimed at young people, you can be absolutely sure that kids will a) never ever visit it and b) if they do visit it, they’ll laugh at it. This will probably be the case with ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) and their site which should ...

MySpace Bullies: These People are Scum

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Looks like we’ve been out of the loop on this MySpace story that’s all over the news (see video above): just over a year ago, depressed 13-year-old Megan Meier started receiving flirtatious MySpace messages from a 16-year old called “Josh Evans” on MySpace. They struck up a virtual relationship. ...

Facebook: We’re More Annoying than MySpace

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

A couple weeks ago we wrote about a blogger and bandmember of Uncle Seth named Jay Moonah. Jay was trying to take advantage of the new Facebook Pages feature, and create a site for his band.  Like any respectable band page on or off Facebook in this day and age, ...

MySpace and Textango Giving Away Free Music

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

A little known company called Textango has partnered up with MySpace for a promotion similar to what we’ve seen with Radiohead. Free music. Punk band Pennywise is giving out free, ad-supported music through Textango via its mobile music distribution service. If you add Textango as a ...

Will a MySpace Re-Design Fix It?

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

MG Seigler over at ParisLemon spoke today about a rumored MySpace re-design in the works. MG likes to refer to MySpace as “spilled coffee over their keyboard and as they blotted it up pumped out MySpace.” I, myself, like to call MySpace the Internet’s virtual trailer park. Between ...

Myspace CSRF and XSS Hack

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

In the comments to my article on CSRF, someone questioned whether CSRF is really anything worth worrying about. Rather than give a hypothetical example, I can point to a real one that is getting some attention today: Myspace Hack Overview M...