Archive for the ‘myspace’ Category

The page view is dead.

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

I noticed a small, but perhaps significant, change in Facebook tonight. Usually when you add more friends to your Facebook account, you need to land on 3 separate pages for each friend: 1) the Requests page; 2) a Request Confirmation/Skip This Step page (I always click 'Skip This Step'), and ...

MySpace API taking shape?

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Looks like with a bit of digging around, you can find a fragment of the upcoming MySpace API. A MySpacer discovered a web album services interface that provides these operations: GetAlbums, GetAlbumsSlideShow, GetImagesCount, InsertAlbum. Is this a hint of a complete MySpace API to come? Mashable continues to hit home runs ...

Facebook and Myspace profit from Virginia Tech tragedy

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

I'm ok at VT" on the Internet social network Facebook has become an online bulletin board for Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University students to post their whereabouts and condition after the campus shooting that killed 32 people. Some 236 groups related to Virginia Tech have been set up on ...

IAC (Web Walmart) Eyes African American Market for Social Networking

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

IAC/InterActive Corp. on Wednesday said it plans to launch a new community site aimed at African Americans, coinciding with a larger social networking movement away from the mass chaos of MySpace toward better-targeted, smaller communities. The unnamed site won't launch until next January, but it will feature news, entertainment, ...

Myspace Blocks Widgets (I told you so)

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

VRS Hosting people's lives online has become big business: services like Flickr and Photobucket serve as a virtual shoe box for millions of photographs, while YouTube and MySpace Video regularly serve up a daily dose of video blogs, home videos, and crazy stunts. But what happens ...