With 50 million registered users, MySpace should be one of the most powerful online communities on the Internet; but many of those users register and depart, to never be seen again.
Greenspan Still Angry Over MySpace Deal
Ex-Intermix CEO Brad Greenspan still hasn’t gotten over the sale of his former company, the parent firm of MySpace, to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.
MySpace To Get Safety Czar
Advertisers are hitting News Corp. where it hurts by looking for escape clauses in their MySpace contracts. As negative press mounts for the phenomenally successful young blogger website over an apparent rash of sexual predation, News Corp. plans to appoint a “safety czar” to help assuage the fears of parents and educators.
MySpace Mobilizes Phone Blogging
Young people like MySpace, but love their cellphones; MySpace wants to tap into that love with a line of mobile phones and a service so users can carry their brand wherever they go.
Playboy Goes Bunny Hunting In MySpace
Even amid swelling controversy surrounding sexual predation on MySpace.com, Playboy Magazine is trolling the record-breaking website for models willing to pose nude for a special “Girls of MySpace” edition.
NSA Wiretaps, MySpace, and Virtual Surveillance
Earlier this week, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced questioning from the Senate Judiciary Committee, in regards to legitimacy of the Bush Administration’s NSA wiretapping surveillance program.
Police Look To MySpace For Sex Predators
Social networking websites are not only tools for criminals and social pariahs to mine their perversions, but also increasingly for law enforcement to collect evidence and set traps. MySpace.com is the latest online area being scoured, this time to find information related to seven teenage girls who say they’ve been assaulted by men they met through the site.
No Room For Copycats In MySpace
Some fans of the social networking site have built domains like MySpaceSupport.com in support of the popular service; MySpace’s corporate masters at News Corp have rewarded those fans using MySpace in their domain names with the gift that keeps on giving: cease and desist letters.
Murdoch: MySpace The Next Big Portal
Take the News Corp publisher’s vast fortune, add it to the very popular social networking site MySpace, and suddenly Rupert Murdoch is playing Fox to the major portal sites like MSN, Yahoo, and AOL.
Does Yahoo Aspire To Be MySpace?
Hang out with friends, listen to new music, talk about what’s important to you, share pictures from a party, MySpace has become the teen place and now has 47.3 million users.