Archive for January, 2010

Bogus MySpace profile: Sydney man guilty of raping aspiring model

Friday, January 29th, 2010

A Sydney man has been found guilty of raping an aspiring lingerie model after promising to help her break into the industry. Paul Rajendran used a bogus MySpace profile, under the pseudonym James Carter, to arrange a meeting with the woman in Sydney's CBD in early March last year.

Data doesn’t lie: “MySpace angles” are the best for hookups

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

It's 2010 and online dating has become so ubiquitous that it's not only socially acceptable, it's practically the go-to when people decide it's time to meet someone new. One advantage to it all being on the Internet, though, is that we can discover what works—do people really respond to the ...

Fake MySpace account lead to assault

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

A man raped an aspiring lingerie model after setting up a fake social networking profile and promising to help her break into the industry, a court has heard. Paul Rajendran used a bogus MySpace profile, using the pseudonym 'James Carter' to arrange a meeting with the 23-year-old woman in early March ...

MySpace Hires Sean Percival To Further Socialize Their Content

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

MySpace is obviously a social network, but in terms of being talked about these days on the social web it has lost a lot of steam in recent years. To help with that, they’re bringing in Sean Percival to be the service’s new Director of Content Socialization.

Marketing Presence on Myspace

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

In its initial stages, MySpace was a virtual gathering spot for teenagers mostly, and not much more than that. There are still lots of teenagers on MySpace and there’s still a lot of socializing going on, but MySpace has evolved. These days, companies and individual marketers both have a significant ...

Twitter, MySpace, Facebook revamping dictionaries

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Slang used on social networking websites such as Twitter, MySpace and Facebook will soon enter dictionaries. Words such as noob, pwnd, blag, hashtag, tweet and unfriend with a high online presence and currency were said to be changing the spoken language.

MySpace staff slashed almost 30 percent

Friday, January 8th, 2010

The restructuring continues at MySpace, whose staff will get cut by almost 30 percent, the News Corp. division announced Tuesday. MySpace's staff is "bloated" considering the "realities of today's marketplace," which prevents it from operating with efficiency and innovation, MySpace said in a statement.

MySpace Kicks Off Developer Challenge

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

MySpace began the contest submission period for the MySpace Developer Challenge. The competition is aimed at “encouraging further innovation from the developer community,” according to the company. “We believe the best onsite and offsite integrations with MySpace are not here yet and the MySpace Developer Challenge intends to find them,” says ...