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64 Articles match "2008","MySpace"
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Friday, May 15, 2009
Top officers of some of the leading social media websites and tools (including Facebook, MySpace and Yammer) will be on the Panel, and there will be panelists from the worlds of media sharing platforms (Pringo), online advertising (Stun Media) and law (Greenberg Glusker), the latter to highlight risks relating to such issues as corporate blogging and privacy. Speakers: * Jason Oberfest, Senior Vice President, Business Development of MySpace * Paul Ollinger, West Coast Vice President of Sales of Facebook * Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW, YouTube * Majid Abai, CEO
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Friday, May 8, 2009
The Lance Armstrong Foundation and Demand Media, which is headed by former MySpace Chairman and Intermix CEO Richard Rosenblatt, inked a deal back in January of 2008 for Demand to create and run LiveStrong.com. Cyclist Lance Armstrong will be providing updates to his bike race at the upcoming Giro D'Italia race this weekend on Livestrong.com, as U.S. television broadcasters are declining to cover the event broadly this weekend.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Santa Monica-based Slingshot Labs , the startup incubator headed by MySpace co-founders Josh Berman and Colin Digiaro, officially rolled out its first web site this morning, DailyFill . The firm said the site has been in beta since late November 2008. According to the firm, which is a division of News Corporation, the new site will cater to "celebrity-obsessed" audiences and provide celebrity news, fashion, and pop-culture information. The new site is the latest in what seems to be a surge of celebrity-focused content sites.
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Friday, January 18, 2008
The current huge players (MySpace, Facebook, etc.) Last Saturday, I was a panelist at the CalTech - Social Networks event. It was a really good event with lots of interesting folks in attendance. I would guess that there was about 100 people - on a Saturday in Pasadena.
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
If you want to grow your company’s audience by adding a social media app (on MySpace, Facebook and similar sites), listen to this interview first.
interviewed Jason Kiesel because MySpace believed in him enough to hire his company to build IMe , an instant messenger app that lets users message their friends. By the time he was done, the app did so much that it was like a MySpace app that duplicated all of MySpaces I Here’s some of what he taught me:
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Monday, December 29, 2008
In its early days, MySpace’s users famously recruited people to join the site because they wanted to have a large number of friends. If your business has a community then it has an army of supporters who will help you grow the company.
I asked Mateo Gutierrez to teach us how to build online communities because he’s had a decade
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Friday, May 15, 2009
Top officers of some of the leading social media websites and tools (including Facebook, MySpace and Yammer) will be on the Panel, and there will be panelists from the worlds of media sharing platforms (Pringo), online advertising (Stun Media) and law (Greenberg Glusker), the latter to highlight risks relating to such issues as corporate blogging and privacy. Speakers: * Jason Oberfest, Senior Vice President, Business Development of MySpace * Paul Ollinger, West Coast Vice President of Sales of Facebook * Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW, YouTube * Majid Abai, CEO
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Los Angeles-based MySpace said today that independent music distributor IODA will provide its catalog to MySpace music. According to MySpace, the partnership with IODA--the Independent Online Distribution Alliance--will add over one million new songs to its platform. IODA is a digital distribution company which helps record labels negotiate licenses, encode data, and track royalties. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
Los Angeles-based MySpace launched its MySpace Music service last night, the firm's joint venture with EMI Music, SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony ATV/ Music Publishing. The site is an online music community and music store, which allows MySpace members to listen to and purchase music. According Among features rolled out last night on the site is the ability for users to create their own personal playlists, free ad-supported audio streamining, and music information and discographies. Music sales on the site are handled through
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Los Angeles-based social networking website MySpace said late Tuesday night that it has launched a new mobile video service, MySpace Mobile, which will allow users to view MySpace video content from mobile devices. According to MySpace, the beta service allows users to view videos users have uploaded or marked as favorites on the site. MySpace is tapping technology from video transcoding provider RipCode for the streaming capability. RipCode's transcoding hardware translates videos from any format into mobile video, adjusting for handset type, bandwidth, and
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Los Angeles-based MySpace said Wednesday that it has officially launched its new MySpace Toolbar, an add-on for Internet Explorer 6.0 which directly connects MySpace users to their accounts. According to MySpace, the new tool--which it developed internally--allows users to receive real-time alerts and notifications from the site. and Firefox 2.0 Alerts include new friend requests, messages, comments, and updates.
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Monday, November 3, 2008
Pedowitz joins the firm from Fox Interactive Media, where he headed up re-architecture and re-engineering of the MySpace MyAds platform. Los Angeles-based mobileStorm has bolstered its engineering resources, saying today that it has named David Pedowitz as the firm's new Director of Engineering and Principal Architect. mobileStorm, which provides mobile and email marketing services, said that Pedowitz will be responsible for developmentof the firm's next generation platforms.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace said today that the firm has launched an application for Google's Android mobile operating system. According to MySpace, its new MySpace Mobile experience is available via Android Market, and allows MySpace users to access the firm's mobile web site. The company also said it has integrated the Android app with Shazam, a mobile music discovery provider, to help its users Among features of the new applications are photo uploading from Android devices, ability to view and comment on photos, profiles, and bulletins; find and add friends; and more.
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