MySpace, Facebook and Social Networking
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.
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 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 Amy Walgenbach of the MySpace Developer Platform. “We also want to reward innovative developers big and small and recognize them as much as we can.”
News Corp.’s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace told users of its recently acquired imeem music streaming service that “the MySpace Music team is working around the clock to duplicate your imeem playlists” — a popular feature that was not immediately preserved during the acquisition, TechCrunch reported. Due to imeem’s financial situation, the site was near shutdown when it was acquired by MySpace; users were simply redirected to MySpace Music on the day the deal was announced, leaving many angry that the playlists they created had disappeared.
Mobile content firm Myxer has launched a new service called MobileStage, which aims to help artists and labels market themselves for mobile users.
It’s a bit like MySpace’s web version, allowing artists to create mobile websites, manage their fanlists, and even create their own apps for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android. “We listened very carefully to a large cross-section of artists, and one universal theme we heard was the artists’ desire for more engaging and personalized ways to connect with their fans,” says Myxer CEO Myk Willis.
Mobile ringtone and media provider Myxer is expanding into artist services with a new program called MobileStage. Dubbed the “MySpace for Mobile,” MobileStage is a suite of mobile marketing tools and services for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android devices.
Now that the digital equivalent of a super-vac, MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta, has sucked up some decent music start-ups–Imeem and iLike–for a song, to bolster the social-networking site’s efforts to expand into an entertainment portal, what’s next?
According to several sources, the News Corp. unit has turned its omnivorous attentions on Flixster, the popular social-networking site for movies.
Not willing to let Facebook and Twitter completely own the market for searchable, up-to-the-minute information, MySpace announced on Wednesday a set of new developer application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to let third-party sites access more of its content.
Not willing to let Facebook and Twitter completely own the market for searchable, up-to-the-minute information, MySpace announced on Wednesday a set of new developer application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to let third-party sites access more of its content.
Here’s an interesting study in contrasts. When MySpace acquired iLike back in August, MySpace left the site mostly intact. The iLike home page is still there, you can still add iLike’s music-finding and sharing application to your Facebook page, and iLike is given prominent placement in Google search results for music-related queries, thanks to an October deal between MySpace and Google. (That deal also included several other companies.)