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Archive for the ‘MySpace’ Category

May 8th, 2008

MySpace Data Portability Will Change Social Networking

One of the most annoying things about maintaining a social network profile is having to manually repost updates from that profile to other services you use. Most of these social networks just don’t want to share, doing everything they can to lock their users into their little information silos.
Just as I was tediously retyping a […]

By Mike Abundo -- 3 comments

May 1st, 2008

A Dead Girl’s MySpace

Ever seen a dead person’s MySpace account? It’s surreal. You’re merrily checking out that person’s pictures, seeing her all smiley with her friends, and then you read the comments:
Tags: Kellmo, Kelly Nascimento, MySpace, Social NetworkingShare This

By Mike Abundo -- 2 comments

October 23rd, 2007

MySpace’s Tom Lies About His Age

No wonder so many people lie about their age on MySpace. The founder does it too.
I knew there was something fishy about that Tom guy when he suddenly popped up on my MySpace profile years ago. That’s why I removed him posthaste.
Tom Anderson, the co-founder of MySpace and the first friend to anyone who creates […]

By Mike Abundo -- 2 comments

August 8th, 2007

MySpace Partners With The Onion

Parody news agency The Onion is partnering with MySpace, providing premium content through MySpaceTV and The Onion’s MySpace profile.
MySpace is owned by News Corp, which also owns Fox. Think about that for a second: a humorously fake news agency partnering with a maliciously fake news agency. The irony is delicious.
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By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments

June 20th, 2007

Yahoo and MySpace: A Deal with the Devil

MySpace is a turkey, News Corporation is a contradiction (Fox!), and Yahoo is a fossil — so I’m not surprised they’d be in bed together. Rumor has it that News Corp is in talks to trade MySpace for a 25% stake in Yahoo. Fortunately, talks have been compromised by the demotion of old media dinosaur […]

By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments

April 13th, 2007

MySpace Blocks Photobucket Videos

In its continuing effort to become an information silo at war with its own customers, MySpace has blocked Photobucket videos from profiles and comments.
No wonder The Geek’s Guide to Good and Evil lists MySpace as evil. While messed-up MySpace profiles annoy us all, users should have the right to mess up their own profiles as […]

By Mike Abundo -- 3 comments

January 2nd, 2007

Top 10 Posts of 2006

What happened in 2006? Lots of stuff, but we weren’t able to cover it all on Emerging Earth. What I can tell you though is what the Top 10 posts were of 2006 based on viewing numbers. If you’re new to Emerging Earth in 2007, this gives you an idea of the topics we discuss […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

November 11th, 2006

Microsoft Launches Aggreg8 - 127.0.0.1 for IT Pros

Microsoft has launched a new networking site for IT Pros called Aggreg8. You can get more details on The Microsoft Weblog.
Nothing amazingly special about the site right now in my opinion, but I signed up for everything and completed my profile, so we’ll see if it goes anywhere.
Source: Microsoft MySpace on Globa-Tech Today
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By Jason -- 1 comment

October 5th, 2006

Tim Westergren of Pandora at Indiana University

One of the areas of our earth that has emerged is online music and offline music. We’ve moved from having a “b-side” on the back of a 45rpm, to a CD of a dozen or so songs. What normally came with those dozen songs were a few that you weren’t really interested in, but just […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

May 26th, 2006

MySpace No Longer Cool?

Stowe Boyd posted an entry today about MySpace being on the downturn. My lack of interest in MySpace has been well known, but Stowe being the social networking guru that he is, has been predicting for far longer that the target audience would dash from the service as quickly as they signed on. The […]

By Aaron -- 2 comments

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