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250 Articles match "MySpace"
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Los Angeles-based MySpace said today that it has launched a new, revamped version of the firm's game homepage, as a new MySpace Games site, to provide a more social gaming environment. The site also said it has rolled out a new iPhone application which allows users to play any of the games on the MySpace site on their iPhone. Tags: myspace games gaming social network According to the social networking site, it has made it easier for users to discover and share games, added analytics tool and an application programming interface (API) for developers, linked the games site into high score service Scoreloop, as well as wired the site to better track how users are finding and choosing specific games.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
MySpace, Shopzilla, Rent.com, Lowermybills, etc.) This morning, we published the results of an extensive study of the impact of venture capital companies on Southern California in terms of exit values, finding that exits from VC-backed firms between 1995 and 2009 generated an astounding $48 billion (billion with a capital B) in value.
The study, which was conducted by Jon Funk of Ocean Road Partners (also of Allegis Capital), used data from our own venture capital database, additional data from Dow Jones/VentureSource, as well as private data collected by Redpoint Venturs’
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
We're brought experts from the field--Colleen Sabatino is our Chief Content Officer, and is one of the more respected career center executives in America, and Travlin McCormick came from Slingshot Labs to be our CTO, and is used to speed and has taken various types of businesses and fed them to MySpace--but I've never considered the industry an issue. One of the more successful serial entrepreneurs here in Southern California has been Robin D. Richards , who most recently sold The NTI Group to Blackboard, and previously also was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA, the founding president
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
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.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Los Angeles-based social networking site is looking to court developers with the launch of a development contest, the MySpace Developer Challenge , the firm said recently. The site said the challenge will award $50,000 between winners submitting MySpace applications, which use the firm's Real-Time Stream API, Open Search API, Photo Upload API, or which integrate the service on the Apple iPhone. Judges MySpace said that entries will be accepted starting January 4th, with contest entries due February 24th. READ MORE>>
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Well MySpace Information Architect Daniel Vickery has you covered in this beautiful infographic.
Tags: Articles myspace trends twitte Wondering what hashtag trends you’ll see in 2010? Once the page fully loads go ahead and click the image to enlarge:
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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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Friday, December 11, 2009
Andrew Thompson quit high school and built a web site that helped MySpace users decorate their pages. He promoted it by being a "MySpace whore," who amassed as many MySpace friends as he could and promoted his site to them, and by getting ranked high in Google search results. Then one evening he added some Yahoo ads to his site and BAM, everything change...
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Friday, March 20, 2009
first met Brad Greenspan, the CEO of the company that created MySpace, when he called me up to tell me that he knew how much money my greeting card company made and that he wanted into the business. Julia Angwin’s book, “Stealing MySpace,” chronicles some of the businesses they got into. In the full interview I recorded with Julia, you’ll get a detailed Summary:
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Los Angeles-based MySpace has released an upgrade to the firm's set of application programming interfaces, saying this morning that it has released an upgrade to MySpaceID, the firm's API for allowing other websites to access its information. According to MySpace, the upgrade includes new access to the activity stream of MySpace users, integration of OAuth and OpenID for authentication of users, and new developer resources to help developers create and manage applications. Among those resources are a new software development kit with libraries for connecting to MySpace via the PHP, Python, Ruby, .NET
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace said today that it has named Mark Rosenbaum as its Chief Financial Officer. Tags: myspace executiv Rosenbaum was most recently a consultant to MGM, and was previously SVP Corporate Finance at Gemstar-TV Guide. He has also served at SmartJog S.A., and at positions
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Friday, April 24, 2009
Hot off the tip line, here is the internal email to staff about the new MySpace boss Owen Van Natta. 8220;MySpace Update Office of Jonathan Miller (FIM)
Today we are announcing that Owen Van Natta is joining MySpace as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. (see Beyond his operational expertise, At lalawag we want to welcome Owen, hopefully he’ll do what most of us do, completly ignore the
“MySpace Dear Colleagues:
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
News Corporation, the parent firm of Los Angeles-based Myspace , said late Wednesday that MySpace CEO and co-founder Chris DeWolfe is leaving the firm. DeWolfe will not be renewing his contract, and will be stepping down in "the near future" at the company, while remaining on the board of MySpace China and acting as a strategic advisor. In a statement announcing DeWolfe's departure, MySpace said that News Corp. According to New Corp., Reasons for the departure of DeWolfe were not given.
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