Archive for June, 2009

The decline of MySpace

Friday, June 19th, 2009

MySpace is looking to do an about-face. The once-red-hot social networking site acquired three years ago by septuagenarian mogul Rupert Murdoch, which landed him on the cover of Wired magazine and won News Corp. praise for embracing the Internet ahead of its old-media rivals, has cooled considerably.

Myspace not for Blogging

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

MySpaced is extremely popular and receives a lot of traffic, but is not for the serious blogger. The advantages to MySpace include the ability to upload and share video, audio and image files as well as a blog. But blogging is not the main business of MySpace, MySpace’s central focus is ...

MySpace to cut staff by 30%

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

MySpace, the social networking site, has said it will cut almost a third of its staff as it looks to cut costs to compete with increasing competition. The cuts total about 400 staff, leaving 1,000 people at the struggling unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

MySpace is harming kids’ brains

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

MySpace and other social networking websites are rewiring children's brains making them more self-centered and reducing their attention spans, a neuroscientist has warned. The nature of communication on the sites could stunt development of the brain, Oxford University neuroscientist Susan Greenfield said.

Generation MySpace

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Our classrooms are populated by children of the digital age. For them, the internet is neither an amazing innovation nor a mystifying distraction. It is simply part of the fabric of their world. Consequently, there is a growing need for those of us over 25 to get to grips with ...

MySpace ‘reveal hidden messages’

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Expert says there are "hidden messages" behind social networks Regular status updates could paint you as an attention-seeker IF you're changing your Myspace status every five minutes there is a good chance the only thing people will notice is that you're an attention-seeking extrovert.