Myspace

MTV, MySpace Partner To Test Profiting From Piracy

AP | RACHEL METZ | Posted 12.04.2008 | Media


NEW YORK — Instead of trying to take down all copyright-protected videos that its members post, MySpace will let certain clips stay _ and give t...

The MySpace Election... and Beyond

Chris DeWolfe | Posted 11.29.2008 | Media


Chris DeWolfe

A campaign no longer has the luxury of thinking of the Internet as an afterthought, but rather it must be a major part of the strategy of every campaign from president down to student body president.

If It Ain't Broke, Don't Try To Fix It

Leslie Harris | Posted 11.23.2008 | Media


Leslie Harris

Given the proven benefits of this open model for Internet use, it is confounding how many people, both in government and industry, seem willing to start tinkering with it.

Online Social Networking and the Quarterlife Crisis

Beth Appel | Posted 11.22.2008 | Living


Beth Appel

After celebrating my 25th birthday with a full day of crying for no apparent reason, things have changed. I blame Facebook.

Chicago Band Needs Your Help

Chicago Reader | Miles Raymer | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago


Life on tour is unpredictable to say the least. You never know what kind of show you're heading to, or where you're going to sleep after you play, or ...

What's Next In Online Safety

Stephen Balkam | Posted 11.17.2008 | Living


Stephen Balkam

Kids are now producing the kind of content we once shielded them from. There are cases pending in court where the kids are being charged with production of child pornography.

MyAds: MySpace Targets Small Advertisers With New Program

CNet | Caroline McCarthy | Posted 11.13.2008 | Media

Read More: MyAds, Myspace, Media News

MySpace has unveiled "MyAds," an advertising technology focused on small businesses and individuals rather than the huge brand advertisers that the Ne...

Bloggers Lead Media to Report McCain/Palin's Campaign "Lies"

Alan W. Silberberg and Ralph J. Shapira | Posted 11.02.2008 | Media


Alan W. Silberberg and Ralph J. Shapira

While traditional media have disparaged blogs as being unreliable, that chaotic, unmediated world known as "the blogosphere" has led the way in ferreting truth from falsehood.

Oasis Launching New Album On MySpace

AP | Posted 11.01.2008 | Entertainment


LONDON — British band Oasis is joining the music rush to the Internet. It is premiering all of its new album, "Dig Out Your Soul," on MySpace s...

On Facebook, The High School Reunion Never Ends

Pauline Millard | Posted 10.30.2008 | Media


Pauline Millard

These aren't people I see everyday but it's nice to hear from them every now and again.

MySpace Music Launches, Challenges Apple's iTunes

Financial Times | Kenneth Li and Matthew Garahan | Posted 10.26.2008 | Media


News Corp's MySpace launches a new online music service on Thursday, aiming to loosen Apple's grip on the US music industry and challenge all other on...

"Retrosexuals" Find Old Flames On Facebook

TIME | Posted 09.16.2009 | Technology


As Facebook users have begun to skew older--the website is now as popular with 30-, 40- and 50-somethings as with the college students who pioneered i...

MediaBizBuzz on Democrats, Republicans, Gustav and Ike

Jerry Weinstein | Posted 10.09.2008 | Home


Jerry Weinstein

Click for News, Photos and all the links to major press coverage of the Republican Convention and for the Democratic reaction. This past week could ha...

Fox News Picks Facebook Over News Corp's MySpace

New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 09.18.2008 | Media


Fox News Channel wants more friends. But instead of reaching out on the News Corporation's own social network, MySpace, the cable news channel is choo...

Report: Keith Olbermann Refuses To Participate In MSNBC-MySpace Partnership

New York Post | Page Six | Posted 09.13.2008 | Media


Keith Olbermann is again being an embarrassment to MSNBC. The cable channel and MySpace have teamed up to choose two "citizen journalist" corresponden...

Friend Poaching or Social Networking?

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 09.11.2008 | Living


Dr. Irene S. Levine

Friendships change over time. A friendship that is 'stolen' may have long been gone. It may offer the poachee an opportunity to change or get rid of a friendship that was draining or toxic in other ways.

Debates Commission Partners With MySpace To

Variety | Ted Johnson | Posted 09.06.2008 | Media


When Barack Obama and John McCain engage in their presidential debates, online viewers will be able to track issues, embed videos, submit questions, o...

A Kick in the Career: Facebook This!

Thomas Stern | Posted 08.12.2008 | Business


Thomas Stern

Which came first, the Internet chicken or the shirking-human-contact egg? It's true that the volume of our communication has quadrupled at least, but what does that really mean if we rarely have to look people in the eye?

Amazon's Secret Weapon In Digital Music War With Goliath iTunes

Fortune.com | Devin Leonard | Posted 08.08.2008 | Business


NEW YORK (Fortune) -- It was easy to scoff two years ago when word leaked out that Amazon was launching its own digital music service. The Seattle-bas...

Charity May Begin at Home, But It's Moving Online

Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.02.2008 | Living


Arianna Huffington

America's economic downturn presents a daunting double-edged challenge to charitable organizations. Hard times mean that more people than ever will be in need of help -- and that fewer people will be in a position to help.

All is Not Well in Silicon Valley

Aaron Greenspan | Posted 07.25.2008 | Business


Aaron Greenspan

MySpace and Facebook have utterly failed to improve any significant aspect of the American economy -- and have "succeeded" at wasting millions of manhours that could have gone toward boosting our national productivity.

MySpace Has The Rich Users

Epicenter | Betsy Schiffman | Posted 07.05.2008 | Business


We always thought MySpace was the ghetto of social networking. Turns out, we were wrong. It's full of rich people, according to comScore. In touting ...

MSNBC, MySpace Team Up To Recruit Citizen Journalists

Hollywood Reporter | Paul J. Gough | Posted 07.04.2008 | Media


NEW YORK -- Citizen journalists, MySpace and NBC News want you to help cover this summer's political conventions. MySpace, NBC News and MSNBC.com are...

Aloha, Mr. Hand

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 06.27.2008 | Media


Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

For all his reliance on social science research, in The Dumbest Generation Mark Bauerlein doesn't present any evidence to justify his assertion that this generation is the dumbest in American history.

MySpace Redesign To Focus On Making So Much Money

The New York Times | BRIAN STELTER | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business


When the News Corporation added MySpace to its portfolio nearly three years ago, it expected that if its base of 16 million users kept growing -- and ...