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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Los Angeles-based MySpace , under fire for selling its user data, said today that it is not selling its data. MySpace said that the data has been available through the MySpace Developer Platform, and allows software to pull publicly available, real-time data such as status updates, or when a user adds music, photos, or videos to their profile. Mike Jones, co-President of MySpace, said in the company's blog that "if a user does not wish to share their Real The firm said that its data is already available--free of charge--to third party developers, as well as such services as Google and its real-time search; and that it only shares data that users have made public.
 
Monday, March 1, 2010
And thats not even counting MySpace, which Rupert Murdoch famously paid $580 million for in 2005. We have all the people who came out of eHarmony; who came from MySpace and Overture and PriceGrabber and Lastminute.com and Shopzilla and CitySearch and all these places. To underscore the point about entrepreneurs coming out of LA-based companies, there is a growing diaspora of talented former MySpace/Intermix executives who have gone on to found or build other companies all over RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in...
 
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Updates for users on Los Angeles-based MySpace 's social networking service are now being indexed by Google in real-time, according to Mike Jones , Co-President of MySpace. Jones said Tuesday in a blog post that the implementation of the firm's MySpace Real-Time Search API went live on Google today, so that live updates form its users--including news, photos, and blog posts--are shown as part of search results on Google's search engine. READ MORE>> ...Tags: Tags: myspace google social networking real time index searc
 

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I wouldn’t bet against MySpace . I know many of their founders and early employees, and one of the co-founders of Intermix (the parent company of MySpace) is an investor.  MySpace has lost the battle as the “place for friends”.  The following are my 7 Ways on How to Save MySpace They attract over 70 million people a month (just in the US), and by most accounts are still one of the 10 most popular sites in the world. They also have a new management team, that’s headed up in part by Michael Jones (COO), the most all around talented internet executive I know.
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
Well, it’s a corporate blog, but Richard Rosenblatt — best known as being the CEO of Intermix and Chairman of MySpace before its sale to News Corp.–is 8211;is now apparently blogging on Demand Media’s site. Not much there yet, except a promo on the firm’s new corporate web site, but there’s lots of folks who will listen if Richard truly is going to be blogging Demand Media has raised over $355M to invest in social media (blogging include
Los Angeles-based MySpace , under fire for selling its user data, said today that it is not selling its data. MySpace said that the data has been available through the MySpace Developer Platform, and allows software to pull publicly available, real-time data such as status updates, or when a user adds music, photos, or videos to their profile. Mike Jones, co-President of MySpace, said in the company's blog that "if a user does not wish to share their Real The firm said that its data is already available--free of charge--to third party developers, as well as such services as Google and its real-time search; and that it only shares data that users have made public.
Updates for users on Los Angeles-based MySpace 's social networking service are now being indexed by Google in real-time, according to Mike Jones , Co-President of MySpace. Jones said Tuesday in a blog post that the implementation of the firm's MySpace Real-Time Search API went live on Google today, so that live updates form its users--including news, photos, and blog posts--are shown as part of search results on Google's search engine. READ MORE>> ...Tags: Tags: myspace google social networking real time index searc
Before you run off and start using Drupal be aware that although it is definitely suitable for many small to medium web sites, configuring and using it is significantly more difficult than WordPress and it does not yet scale to the level of MySpace or Facebook. For little while now I have been dabbling in the open source content management framework Drupal . Drupal promises ( in time) to allow practically anyone to be able to set up and mange complex social web sites with more features than a swiss army knife.
Yesterday she was chosen out of 5 finalist candidates as the winner of the annual “ MySpace Citizen Journalist ” competition. She’ll get to travel next week to the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland as a special correspondent for MySpace , The Wall Street Journal and the World Economic Forum . As a part of the Davos press corps she will be using the MySpace platform to report on conference news and interview Even though Sloane Berrent has moved out of Los Angeles and relocated to New Orleans, we still consider her one of us. Congrats
Saul Hansell, NYT Bits Blog, 1/3/2008 : “Twitter has two ideas, neither of which naturally create a big enterprise…. MySpace did it too: Lucrative search deals aren’t new. Except for Facebook’s two deals with Microsoft , or the $900-million MySpace-Google deal of mid-2006. Oh. Thank.
Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the social media firm headed by former MySpace Chairman Richard Rosenblatt, said this morning that it has made a minority investment in Toronto-based CoveritLive . CoveritLive develops live blogging tools and related products for creating live, online events. Tags: demand media coveritlive venture capital social bloggin Amount of the investment and other financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Demand Media said that the investment is part of a strategic partnership with CoveritLive, whre Demand Media will market, resell, and integrate CoveritLive's
Yesterday she was chosen out of 5 finalist candidates as the winner of the annual “ MySpace Citizen Journalist ” competition. She’ll get to travel next week to the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland as a special correspondent for MySpace , The Wall Street Journal and the World Economic Forum . As a part of the Davos press corps she will be using the MySpace platform to report on conference news and interview Even though Sloane Berrent has moved out of Los Angeles and relocated to New Orleans, we still consider her one of us. Congrats