A beta version of MySpace Mexico launched in January, but as of this morning, the real thing is open for business. MySpace has also hired two new executives in Latin America, and the company intends to host a concert featuring Café Tacuba, “one of the most culturally significant and popular Latin alternative bands in the world.”
The Next MySpace Could Be A Cluster Bomb
The rise of the social network has caused the rise of other, perhaps predictable, things: copycat networks; and investor curiosity. Blame MySpace and Facebook. Blame (or congratulate) Hi5, known, apparently, everywhere but the US, for extracting $20 million out of venture capitalists.
MySpace, Virgin Comics Partner
Virgin Comics and MySpace have partnered to launch Coalition Comix, an online comic book platform that will allow users to work with comic book creators in developing and creating characters and stories.
Facebook (Sort Of) Surpasses MySpace In UK
MySpace is still beating Facebook in the UK – News Corp.’s site receives 41 percent more visits. But Facebook has just overtaken the older social network in terms of Internet searches, and this has big implications for the future.
MySpace, MSN Collaborate In China
Well over a week ago, reports surfaced that MySpace China and MSN China would partner; Luo Chuan, the CEO of Myspace China, denied them. Now – you guessed it – the partnership has been made official.
MySpace Feels Pressure From Facebook, Bebo
MySpace has long been the UK’s leading social network (in terms of traffic), but the site seems to be losing its touch. Conversely, two competitors – Bebo and Facebook – are starting to show strong gains of their own.
MySpace Founders Want How Much?
Just as Rupert Murdoch and the News Corp apparatus pore over a potential deal for Dow Jones, MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson have submitted their pay requests for consideration.
MySpace TV Set To Launch
When you think of video-sharing sites, you think of YouTube, DailyMotion, Blinkx . . . the list goes on. But MySpace probably isn’t on the list, and News Corp wants to change this fact; hence, the introduction of MySpace TV.
MySpace is Las Vegas, Facebook is IKEA
Danah Boyd, a sociologist and researcher in the U.S. who specializes in youth culture and online social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, has posted a draft version of a new paper she is writing on what might loosely be referred to as “class divisions” between the two popular social networking sites. Although she says that the differences between the two audiences are not strictly class-based, there appears to be a clear difference between teens who gravitate to one versus the other.
MySpace Comedy Turns One
MySpace is celebrating the first anniversary of MySpace Comedy, a community for comedians to reach fans and share their talent.