MySpace New Logo, A Better Redesign?

At the Warm Gun Design, as a part of the new MySpace re branding the company. I personally like the old logo then again, I am not even a member of MySpace. It remains to see, if the new logo will help to save MySpace.

MySpace has unveiled MySpace Latino, Official Launch on April 11th 2008

MySpace has unveiled MySpace Latino, a bi-lingual site dedicated to Latino in all of us. The beta test indication is gone which has been there since last year. The content is in both Spanish and English. In conjunction with the launch which is slated for April 11th, MySpace will have a number of content partners to kick-start new interest areas on the site.

If you are in Miami, Florida, get ready for the Official Launch of MySpace Latino April 11th With Tego Calderon+ Circo+ Locos Por Juana and a Specail Guest. Doors Open at 8:30 and the show begins at 9:00PM Sharp.
This is a FREE event. find out what you have to do to get it!!;

ADD SHOWS SECRETOS to your top friends and bring a print out of your profile to STUDIO A starting at 2:00pm on 4/11/08 to pick up your wristband!
This is a first come first serve event so get there early to ensure success! Doors close at capacity. 18+ only.

tag: bi-lingual social networking, myspace, SHOWS SECRETOS, Tego Calderon, Circo, Locos Por Juana, MySpace Latino,

MySpace Gives You YourSpace WIth MySpace Developer Portal

Since they announced and as expected, MySpace has launched a new site and released code that will allow developers to build applications around the MySpace API. This will allow individual applications a use MySpace service and/or provide services to MySpace.

The new MySpace Developer Platform site will let developers build and test applications for a month in a live environment before the applications become public in March.

The site includes Google OpenSocial with MySpace extensions to enable JavaScript and HTML; action scripts that allow Flash to communicate directly with MySpace APIs; and Representational State Transfer, or REST, APIs to speed up applications.

I in the process of testing some of the demo applications provided by MySpace Developer team and the dream has my brain on it.

BBC is Coming to My Space

New York Times is reporting that BBC is planing to share it's content on MySpace following the path of success BBC had with the YouTube.
"The commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation is expected to announce a partnership with MySpace on Thursday to make some of its content available on MySpace, the popular social networking Web site.

MySpace, part of the News Corporation, controlled by Rupert Murdoch, said Wednesday that the relationship was its first global agreement with a major broadcaster. The companies will share advertising revenue.

The BBC has already found some success syndicating content on the Google Web site YouTube, where its videos have garnered more than three million views since last February. MySpaceTV is the second most popular video Web site, behind YouTube."

You can find the Growing Online, NYT article here.

tag: myspace, YouTube, MySpaceTV, BBC

Working Group on Social Networking Formed with All the States, Except Texas

According to the following news release by News.com on MySpace news conference on MySpace Security. Something that is lacking in most social networking sites. The new Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking, led by attorneys general Roy Cooper of North Carolina and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, consists of Nigam as well as the attorneys general of 49 total U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The group has released a "Joint Statement on Key Principles of Social Networking," which it hopes will achieve industry wide approval from other social-networking sites and Internet providers.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said later on Monday that his office declined to participate because he didn't consider the proposed safety measures to be strong enough and did not join the group.

Here is the news com release MySpace safety plan is smoke and mirrors.

A coalition of law enforcement authorities and representatives from social-networking site MySpace.com gathered Monday morning to unveil an extensive new plan for ensuring the safety of minors on the Internet.

Under the agreement, MySpace has pledged to work with the attorneys general on a set of principles to combat harmful material on social-networking sites (pornography, harassment, cyberbullying, and identity theft, among other issues), better educate parents and schools about online threats, cooperate with law enforcement officials around the country, as well as develop new technology for age and identity verification on social-networking sites.

tag: social networking, social networking security, myspace, pornography, harassment, cyberbullying, identity theft, Working Group on Social Networking,

Is Large Number Of Users making Social Networking Sites Like Facebook and MySpace Slow?

Watchmouse, leading website monitoring company, has released a report on accessibility and availability of Social networking sites. I was surprised to read that "Facebook performance was poorest of all"
"The Netherlands, January 10, 2008 – Popular social networking sites fail to deliver to their users, according to WatchMouse. Research from the leading website monitoring company has shown that web 2.0 sites often are slow to open or fail to load properly. WatchMouse monitored the time it took the social networking sites, listed on Wikipedia, to load. The results showed that the worst for availability is the immensely popular Facebook."
Complete article, Social networking sites slow and inaccessible. This article also covers about other sites like Twitter, last.fm, Windows Live Spaces, Friendster and del.icio.us. which also said to be slow.
Complete Site availability index could be found here.



tag: social networking, facebook, myspace, Watchmouse,

Bebo named as best social networking site

They have transformed the way people communicate and attract millions of regular users keen to make virtual friendships or chat about common interests. Of the most popular social networking websites, Bebo is today named in a report as the top performer, beating its rivals Facebook and MySpace.

Computing Which? publishes the results of an independent test assessing the 10 most popular sites for ease of setting up and using the site, the range of features, and the way the sites protected privacy and security, including how easy it is to remove personal details.

Bebo and Facebook achieved the highest scores of 79% and 74% respectively, and were rated easier to use than MySpace and best for socialising. Bebo, which is used predominantly by the 13- to 24-year-old age group, is praised for working hard to encourage responsible networking.
Continue reading at Social Networking news source.
tag: Social networking, facebook, bebo, myspace,

Come play in MySpace, Social Games Begin

News.com reports that News Corp.-owned social-networking site MySpace.com announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with casual-game maker Oberon Games, part of Oberon Media, to create a "channel" of social games.

Currently, the games.myspace.com subdomain encourages users to "stay tuned for updates." It offers them an array of video game-related videos instead of actual games.

MySpace to debut casual-game site in January, News Com

Tags: myspace, social games

MySpace Facebook and Gmail hackable! BlackHat goes Social networking!

BlackHat goes Social networking!
Deacon said the flaw he discovered requires that a user click on a link that leads to a Web page where the computer's "cookie" information is stolen. Deacon said he discovered the problem several months ago along with several other researchers and alerted MySpace, but the company didn't fix the problem.

"Facebook and MySpace both patch things that they find, but it's like a sandbox," Deacon said. "There's so much. And there are probably hundreds more cross-site scripting vulnerabilities there. There's no way they can find them all."

A MySpace spokeswoman declined to comment specifically about Deacon's presentation. The company said in a statement that "it's our responsibility to have the most responsive, solely dedicated 24-7 safety and security team, and we do."

In a separate demonstration, Robert Graham, chief executive of Atlanta-based Errata Security, showed a program for snooping on the computers on public wireless networks to steal the "cookie" information and hijack e-mail accounts and personal Web pages on social networks.

In his Black Hat presentation, he took over the e-mail account of an audience member using Google Inc.'s Gmail service. Graham said his program demonstrates the vulnerability of public wireless connections.

"Everyone has gotten into their minds that passwords over WiFi are toxic, so let's fix that, and they have," Graham said. "What I'm saying is that everything else is just as toxic."

Graham's demonstration would not have worked if the audience member had been using the encrypted version of Gmail.

Google declined to comment specifically on the presentation but said the company is expanding its capacity to enable automatic encryption for all Gmail users.
AP news at ABC

Tags: Social networking, myspace, facebook, blackhat, Gmail, encrypted email

Porn.com gets 9 million and gets ready for a better "Product"!

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Do you know your VIRB? We know our VIRB

Virb is a community website that combines social interaction with music and entertainment exploration. It's a great way to keep in touch and meet people with similar interests. Use Virb to discover music, videos, cool companies and organizations... then share what you find with your friends.
That is according to VIRB's about Us!
But I think it is aimed at reducing the glow of the likes of MySpace. And others might think of it as Blogger on steroids. One way or the other, WeSeePeople has it's own space at VIRB and still it is blank canvas to be painted.
I have hope in VIRB, because the same folks who did the Purevolume have come up with the VIRB. Even though they are not from MIT ;), where good folks like me escape from to come and live in sunny California, they are of Massachusetts.
The young UMI, Unborn Media Inc has done good and I am sure it will be a blast. I urge you to pay a visit and see for yourself.
Speaking of blasts, they are having a blast at Tejas 2007 in Austin, Texas, March 10-17 with more than 80 bands. Go play

Tags: social networks, myspace, VIRB, Purevolume, Tejas 2007, weseepeople, we see people

Myspace going to Japan, Can it compete with MIXI?

According to a WSj article, News Corp., moving to take advantage of growing international traffic to its MySpace Web site, confirmed plans for a joint venture with Softbank Corp. to operate a Japanese version of the popular social-networking site.

The joint venture follows News Corp.'s creation in recent months of local versions of MySpace in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Germany and France. These customized sites have helped increase MySpace's international traffic sixfold to 26.4 million unique visitors in the past year, according to September data from comScore Media Metrix.
But it might meet some resistance from Japanese social networking site, MIXI. Mixi is built with secular circles of friends who are only known to depending on what user chose to share.
Any user on MIXI is visible universally, but what is seen is also chosen by the user. For an example, you may allow a friend of yours to see your space, while denying all friends of the chosen friend. Or you may chose some of her or his into your circle if you know them as well.
So it is debatable if the open nature of Myspace would appeal to Japanese users. There always will be rebels and early tasters. But they might retreat to secular MIXI spaces.

Links;
WSJ myspace in Japan
MIXI Japanese Social Network

Tags: myspace, MIXI, Social networking, social networks

Myspace educates parents! Protect your own!

With all the negative publicity that it was getting due to young members being under attack by unsavory characters. The site, is said to be one of the largest global social networking site,with more than 100 million profiles created by users that count among them Chief Executive Officers and Fortune 500 companies such as MySpace advertiser General Motors Corp. -- has also made it a destination for child predators from coast to coast in the United States.
It has joined hands with Seventeen magazine, the National School Board Association and the National Association of Independent Schools to offer parents tips on how to protect minors online.
But if you read the whole article on yahoo, I (may be you) get the feeling that it is trying to hand over the plate to parents of these young people. I will just mention few sentences here for your reference but I hope you would read the complete article. One way or other, it is still better than doing nothing to protect the young.

from the article;
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"MySpace introduced a new technology and created a new world," Atoosa Rubenstein, Seventeen editor in chief, said in an interview. "But it's not their sole responsibility to patrol them."

"My mom was the person who told me not to walk down the dark alley by myself, not the person who created the dark alley."

To download the parents guide, surfers can click on "Safety Tips" at MySpace.com. Brochures will also be distributed to about 55,000 schools representing grades 7 through 12 in the United States in October."