MySpace Facebook Integration Deepened With 'Mashup' (VIDEO)

(AP/Huffington Post) NEW YORK — In a sign of the companies' divergent fortunes, MySpace says it will let its users log in to their Facebook accounts through their MySpace page.

Doing so will port the likes and interests they have listed on their Facebook profiles to MySpace, where they will get a stream of entertainment content based on these interests.

MySpace users have already been able to sync their status updates to their Facebook profiles. Thursday's announcement is a deeper integration of Facebook's technology into MySpace. It doesn't involve any financial transactions.

Once a mighty rival, MySpace has conceded that it is no longer a social network but a social entertainment destination – think MTV for the Web 2.0 generation. Facebook, meanwhile, is working to become the social overlay of the Web.

WATCH:

Mashup your Facebook Likes on Myspace

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Comments

[Alien Nation]

10:27 AM on 11/22/2010

Looks like a bunch of cheesy musicians - just like myspace. Everyones all emotional and owns a guitar.

[MIKEinNYC]

10:11 AM on 11/21/2010

Might as well change it to SpaceBook.

[rigmoten]

05:07 PM on 11/21/2010

We've been calling it faces-of-spacebook for some time.

[whochick]

08:20 PM on 11/19/2010

I'd rather keep mine separate although I don't get on MySpace a lot.

[reebus856]

03:32 PM on 11/19/2010

Apparently My Space finally stopped holding it's breath & exhaled into the ether. Actually the merging of a social networking behemoth w/ a dedicated entertainment arm, might prove symbiotic-time will tell(?). Now they can both be a "one-stop shopping" integration. Yet I'm suspicious about there being no financial transaction occuring(really?) especiallly w/ Murdoch's[aka News Corp] baracuda business tactics, as well as Zuckerberg's et.al hunger for growth.
I liked the suggestion by a staff writer from WaPo calling this mashup "My Face" '-O

[MaxPowerXP]

12:09 PM on 11/19/2010

that's what MySpace gets for being this past decade's version of Geocities

[Carnacamarna]

09:51 AM on 01/05/2011

I hadn't thought of the word Geocities in so long.....

[Mike4Obama]

10:36 AM on 11/19/2010

Looks like Murdoch is trying to get peoples information from Facebook.

Be wary. No doubt its a scam to infiltrate the network on a wide scale.

[FCorey]

04:07 PM on 11/19/2010

I never let my Twitter, Myspace and FaceBook play with each other.

[MrVee]

07:32 PM on 11/20/2010

Agreed. I would never trust anything tied to Foxnews.

[kerryonworld]

10:12 AM on 11/19/2010

I did the Facebook mashup too and wrote about it here:
http://www.kerryonworld.com/internet/sharing-what-you-like-the-myspace-facebook-mashup

The ideas was supposed to be that you open the door to your Facebook profile to give permission to Myspace to take pieces of information and use it to put up relevant content in an entertainment sense on your Myspace profile. I found that it did absolutely nothing if not just snagging my personal information.

[FollowMal]

11:21 PM on 11/18/2010

I did the "mashup" but that doesn't mean I'll hit myspace very often. I'm over 50 so they don't show much that I'm interested in. Not that I use Facebook that much either. I'm there, I like seeing my grandchild's pics and keeping in touch with friends and family, but it's not the be all end all.

[delta7777]

05:54 PM on 11/18/2010

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["Once a mighty rival, MySpace has conceded that it is no longer a social network but a social entertainment destination ']

MySpace serves a valuable function in this niche,
and serves it quite well.

MySpace has infinitely less creepy insidiousness than facebook.
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[StansDad]

10:40 AM on 11/19/2010

Tom still looks creepy to me

[FCorey]

04:08 PM on 11/19/2010

Tom and Zuckerberg look like the kids that go nuts and shoot up a school because someone called them 'nerds'.