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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.

News Corp’s MySpace hires more executives

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, hired two technology startup veterans to fill top roles at MySpace after a management shakeup last week aimed at revitalizing the online social network. MySpace named Michael Jones as chief operating officer and Jason Hirschhorn as chief product officer, News Corp said in ...

MySpace launches uReport citizen journalism community

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Social networking giant MySpace announced an agreement with fellow News Corp. unit Fox News Channel to launch uReport, a new citizen journalism community enabling users to submit photos and videos from a computer or mobile device. According to MySpace, the partnership--its first with Fox News--offers members the opportunity to share ...

MySpace chief’s exit forces News reshuffle

Monday, April 27th, 2009

News plans a new management structure at its MySpace social-networking Web site following the resignation of co-founder and Chief Executive Chris DeWolfe. A successor to DeWolfe wasn't named. He will remain an adviser to MySpace, Jonathan Miller, the top digital officer for News Corp., said yesterday in a statement. MySpace President ...

We can’t beat Facebook: MySpace founder

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

MySpace’s co-founder has capitulated in the social networking war, admitting his site will never beat Facebook in both popularity and number of users. The Newscorp-owned social networking site and Facebook have about 280 million active users. But in an interview with the Herald Sun, MySpace co-founder Brett Brewer says Facebook ...

Fox News taps MySpace for citizen journalists

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

MySpace on Monday invited its members to become volunteer "uReporters" by supplying news pictures or videos for use at the social networking website and Fox News network. Fox citizen journalism service MySpace uReport went live online at www.myspace.com/ureport.

MySpace or Yours?

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Social networking sites have revolutionized the way people connect, reconnect and interact. Not only do they make it easier for stalkers to do what they do best, but they also give those who are socially inept a way to be…well, social (while still, of course, being inept if they so ...

Did You Know The Background Of The MySpace Cofounder?

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

You must have heard about the co-founder of MySpace, Mr. Tom Anderson. If you dig into the past of this person there is an interesting story that might interest you. He started hacking computers at the minor age of 13 years. In the year of 1985 he was identified by ...

MySpace purges 90,000 sex offenders

Monday, April 13th, 2009

MySpace has identified and barred some 90,000 registered sex offenders from using the site over the last two years, the online networking site revealed to a US investigative task force on Tuesday. The "shocking" number was 40,000 more than MySpace had previously acknowledged, according to Connecticut Attorney-General Richard Blumenthal, a co-chairman ...

Myspace FACT

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

MySpace was founded by former Friendster members Chris Dewolfe and Tom Anderson in 2003. They saw opportunity to beat Friendster with more options and less restrictions for social network users. MySpace was purchased in 2005 for $580 million by Rupert Murdoch creator of a media empire that includes 20th Century ...