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.

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: ...Tags:

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:

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... ...Tags: Tags: Intervie

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: I

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

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

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:

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.

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace said Wednesday afternoon that the firm has launched a new offering which will allow users to link to the site while watching TV. According to MySpace, the new MySpace Widget For TV was co-developed by Intel and Yahoo, and will allow consumer electronics devices to interact with MySpace, directly through a TV. The launch came in conjunction Among features of the TV version of MySpace are updates on status from friends, ability to browse photos and profiles, and to publish status and respond to messages. Intel's