Posted by Simon Perry on 10 April 2008 | Tagged as: News Corp., Investments, MySpace, Microsoft, Yahoo, Advertising, Google, USA, Search
The tussle between Yahoo and Microsoft has gone through a couple of extra rounds of late. We thought we’d bring you up to date with the current state of play.
Back in Feb Microsoft offered Yahoo $44Bn. Yahoo said no thanks.
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 4 March 2008 | Tagged as: Business, MySpace, Social software
Oh great. There’s yet another social networking service arriving on an already crowded landscape, and this time it’s Facebook ripping off MySpace by offering their own full-on dedicated music service.
The feature set appears to be a note for note copy of the basic MySpace services, so bands or musicians can create their own homepages, add […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 14 February 2008 | Tagged as: MySpace, Investments, News Corp., Yahoo
It’s being reported that there’s ’secret’ discussion going on between Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and Yahoo, apparently in an attempt to find an alternative route to Microsoft buying it.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 11 January 2008 | Tagged as: Content, MySpace
MySpace is to launch MySpace Celebrity, a ‘channel’ (read Web page) on MySpace that bring to attention MySpace pages of ‘celebrities.’
The illusion they are trying to create is that MySpace users will be able to interact with their favourite stars. The likelihood is that they will in fact be communicating with one of the […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 2 November 2007 | Tagged as: Services, MySpace, Social software, Google, Software
Google is to collaborate with MySpace on OpenSocial, an Open Platform for Social Application Development.
Consisting of a set of common APIs that can be used for building Web-based social applications. The hope is that they will simplify the process of developing social applications.
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 22 October 2007 | Tagged as: MySpace, Content, Social software, Web 2.0, User Generated Content (UGC), Research
Despite the hype and huge growth, investors are still wary of another dot-bomb crash.
Posted by Simon Perry on 17 October 2007 | Tagged as: Services, MySpace, Skype, VoIP
MySpace is to introduce MySpace IM with Skype, giving their considerable number of users the ability to directly IM with each other, and talk using Skype for zero cost.
The integration between MySpace and Skype sounds like it’s been considerable, with MySpace users able to block or grant access to them through settings on their MySpace […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 14 May 2007 | Tagged as: Content, MySpace, News Corp., USA, Legal
New ‘Take Down Stay Down’ technology aims to keep dodgy content of members’ profiles.
Posted by Simon Perry on 20 April 2007 | Tagged as: News In Brief, Services, MySpace, Social software
Following the anticipation of the Beta launch of MySpace News, we thought we’d pop over and have a look at what the service is like and how well it’s doing.
It’s obviously early days, but wow is it quiet over there … you can almost hear the tumble-weed running through it.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 19 April 2007 | Tagged as: News In Brief, Services, MySpace, News Corp., Content Indexing & Navigation
Where did they get that idea from? Will it fly?
