Archive for September, 2009
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
It has only been a week since MySpace launched its two-way sync with Twitter, but already the service has made an impact on the popular microblog.
MySpace's "lnk.ms" is now the second most used link-shortening service on Twitter, according to statistics compiled by Twitter link tracker Tweetmeme.
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
MySpace may not have been the original social networking site, since those who’ve been around long enough can remember Friendster and other such places to meet people online. However, for a long while, MySpace was the reigning social networking site, and today, although it has lost some of its market ...
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
In Lancaster County, the New Holland Police Department arrests and charges four teens with criminal trespass.
Police say on July 8th, a family, who lives on the 200 block of East Jackson Street, reported their home had been broken into while they were away on vacation. The residents told police $4,000 ...
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Rupert Murdoch said in July he wanted to reshape MySpace into an entertainment hub, and sources say the site now plans to launch a new video service sometime in the next several months with the help of sister site Hulu, CNET News has learned.
The big question is whether MySpace's service ...
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
MySpace on Monday began synchronizing user status updates with wildly popular microblogging service Twitter.
The News Corp-owned online social networking service said it is rolling out a test version of software that lets its US members stream real-time comments to MySpace and Twitter.
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
We don’t cover much executive news, but when the executive is friend to tens of millions of social networking users, it piques our interest. In this case, the executive we’re talking about is MySpace’s “Tom,” known to users of the social network as your automatic friend when you sign-up, and ...
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
MySpace LogoThis week, the social networking juggernaut MySpace (MySpace) made some sweeping changes, most notably ousting its current CEO and hiring former Facebook COO Owen Van Natta to fill the role. Is this the start of a MySpace comeback?
During 2008, MySpace held the lead in the US according to most ...
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Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Michael Jackson’s death came at a time when the singer was preparing for one of the biggest endavours of his career: a series of 50 final concerts called This Is It. It was supposed to be one final crescendo in Jackson’s career, but due to his untimely death, it wasn’t ...
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Facebook (Facebook) made waves last week when it released the code behind Tornado Web Server, the framework that powers some of the functionality behind FriendFeed (FriendFeed), which Facebook acquired last month.
While the move was a nice gesture to the development community, it’s not as if Facebook did this without a ...
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
KFC has put a lot of marketing muscle behind their new “Kentucky Grilled Chicken,” most notably with the free meal giveaway by Oprah. While that campaign generated enormous online buzz – some of it rather unfavorable as stores refused to honor the coupons – the chicken chain is now turning ...
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