The new MySpace leadership has an ambitious goal to rebrand and rebuild the once-dominant social networking site
Now under new management, MySpace is looking to reinvent itself and rise like a Phoenix from the ashes. The once dominant social networking site fell from nearly 70 percent of the social networking market, to only 30 percent in less than a year, and was plummeting on the verge of extinction.
Once the most popular social networking site in the world, MySpace is now attempting to recapture the public's attention.
It's almost hard to believe, but MySpace used to be the most popular social networking site in the world.
Microsoft is helping busy business professionals stay in touch and manage social networks through Outlook social connectors.
Microsoft is transforming Outlook from an e-mail client, or messaging platform, to a social networking hub with the addition of social connectors. The integration of social networking is a huge benefit for Outlook users, and may even help drive adoption of Outlook as others look for a tool to help sift through the social network noise.
The companies are following through on an announcement made in December
Google has started incorporating into its search results status updates that MySpace users have posted publicly.
The company will award US$50,000 in prizes
MySpace has opened the submission period for its Developer Challenge, a contest in which the company will award US$50,000 in prizes for new applications and for innovative uses of the social networking site's application programming interfaces.
The company will release a new set of APIs
In an aggressive move, MySpace will open its users' public activity stream data to external developers, so that third-party applications and Web sites are able to display these status updates and action notifications.
The simple problems may have exposed users' data for an unknown length of time
Social-networking sites MySpace and Facebook have apparently fixed coding errors that could have allowed an attacker access to all of their users' data and photos.
It's hard to understand who in their right mind would want to incur the wrath of "Triple H," the intimidating superstar of professional wrestling. But when a poser created a fraudulent MySpace account in Triple H's name, it wasn't the wrestler that the perpetrator had to contend with.
Twitter use still exploding; Facebook easily maintains top social networking market share
While Myspace Inc.'s business took a huge slide in the U.S. over the past yearp, use of rival Twitter Inc.'s social network simply exploded as visits to the site in September increased by 1,170% compared to year-earlier figures, according a report released last week by Experian Hitwise, an Internet monitoring firm.
They will be able to build home page applications using the Yahoo Application Platform
Yahoo is opening its newly redesigned home page to external developers so that they can build applications for it, the company said Tuesday.
And Facebook users are wealthier than counterparts on Myspace
If you're hooked on posting updates on Facebook and Twitter, there's a good chance you have more money and are more urban than your fellow US citizens, according to a new study by The Nielsen Co.
Qizmt is a distributed computation framework based on the MapReduce programming model for processing large data sets
MySpace on Tuesday will release as open source a technology called Qizmt that it developed in-house to mine and crunch massive amounts of data and generate friend recommendations in its social-networking site.
The acquisition is expected to enhance MySpace's user experience
MySpace, scrambling to jump-start its popularity, has agreed to buy iLike, a social music discovery service that is very popular on MySpace and other social networks like Facebook.
Governor signs bill aimed at keeping known predators from online prowling
The state of Illinois made it a law this week that convicted sex offenders cannot use social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.
Head of Catholic Church in U.K. says texting, e-mail, social networks destroy friendships
The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England is warning that Facebook, texting and e-mails are destroying relationships and may even lead teens to commit suicide.
