MySpace now a “digital ghetto”

Abandon your MySpace account for Facebook? You might just be a racist. At a keynote speech during New York's Democracy forum at Lincoln Center, Danah Boyd spoke of the racial disparity and possible reasons for mass abandonment of MySpace for ... continue

Massive 30% Myspace Layoffs - Heightened Security at MySpace HQ

Nearly 30% of MySpace staff will be unemployed by 4pm, PST today as the company lays of between 450 and 500 of it's 1,600 or so domestic employees. It appears that the company decided to get rid of ... continue

Johnny Palermo dies in car accident

Actor Johnny Palermo has died after being involved in a car crash in North Hollywood June 8. Palermo's girlfriend Alessandra Giangrande, who was driving the vehicle, was also killed in the accident. Details relating to the possible cause ... continue

Visible Measures Scores MySpace Video Deal

Video metrics firm Visible Measures has scored a new deal with MySpace. The company will provide all online video measurement services for the social networking site, it announced this morning. As MySpace's "official provider of digital video measurement ... continue

MySpace Gets Silverlight, Facebook Gets Flash. Winner: Facebook.

MySpace and Facebook have both announced new partnerships for rich media content within their networks. MySpace is teaming up with Microsoft to bring Silverlight functionality to its developer platform, while Facebook is introducing expanded Flash support for ... continue

Teenage Girl Arrested Over Nude Self-Pics On MySpace

A 14-year-old girl is facing child porn-related charges over a series of nude self-photographs found on her MySpace profile. The teen was arrested and charged with possession and distribution of child pornography. Social Network Investigation The girl, from New ... continue

MySpace Introduces Integrated Photo Editing Tool

MySpace has introduced a new option to let users edit photos from right within the social network. The built-in tool comes as part of a partnership with FotoFlexer, a Web-based image editing service. The newly integrated MySpace photo ... continue

MySpace COO Leaving to Form New Startup

MySpace Chief Operating Officer Amit Kapur is leaving the social network to start his own tech company. Two other senior MySpace execs will join him, according to published reports. Kapur, engineering manager Jim Benedetto, and product strategy head ... continue

A return to silos – the big Web 2.0 joke

As we have moved along the timeline of what we refer to as Web 2.0 and social media one of the big standbys of the movement has been that of openness and transparency. At the ... continue

Apple Store: No More Facebook For You

Apple has put the kibosh on Facebook usage in its U.S. retail stores, according to recently published online reports. Apparently, Facebook surfing was eating up too much computer time in Apple Stores. It's a similar situation to ... continue

MySpace sex offenders migrating to Facebook

Some of the 90,000 sex offenders banned from MySpace have headed to Facebook, according to an expert. Internet security firm Sentinel have found over 8,000 known sex offenders on Facebook, and believe the true number could be as ... continue

SocialMedia Networks Snags $6 Million

Social media advertising firm SocialMedia Networks has secured $6 million in fresh funding this Friday. The Series B dough comes from IDG Ventures SF and Charles River Ventures. SocialMedia Networks serves ads in about 5,000 different applications on ... continue