With the advent of Facebook, MySpace and YouTube, the so-called millennial generation is more adept than ever at sharing the details of their daily lives online.
But there may now be demand to do so in a more artistic way.
They did say it was too close to call.
Last night’s “American Idol” win by Kris Allen–despite some social-media analyses pointing to an Adam Lambert victory–highlights how close the two contestants were, and how changes in sentiment late Wednesday may have turned the tide.
What should the law do when people are attacked anonymously online, such as in the case of Megan Meier, who committed suicide after receiving harassing messages on MySpace? Should the law do anything?
There’s a fascinating case coming to the New Jersey courts in early June about a bartender and waitress at a restaurant who were sacked because of comments they made in a private MySpace forum.
There has been a lot of speculation on the future of MySpace since today’s news that Chris DeWolfe may step down as CEO.
How do social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace fit within the world of privacy law? Are such sites private rooms in which one can pen his or her internal thoughts without fear of others misappropriating such thoughts? Or are such sites really just bulletin boards for the world? An appellate court in California weighed in on the issue on Friday, and basically sided with the bulletin-board position.
As recently as late 2008, Pandora Networks’ Chief Technology Officer Tom Conrad still had big doubts about the prospects for smartphone maker Palm. In November, Conrad was among a coterie of software developers invited to Palm headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., to take an early, up-close look at an operating system for use in the company’s phones. “I was totally skeptical when I walked in,” says Conrad, who met Palm execs along with representatives of MySpace, Intuit, movie site Fandango, and Epocrates, a maker of mobile software for physicians.
Moves by major tech companies to open up to outside developers have been a boon for small start-ups. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Yahoo, Apple and Intuit, to name a few, all allow developers to build software that hooks into their services.
The time has come for big changes at MySpace, according to Pali Research analyst Richard Greenfield.
In a research note this morning, Greenfield asserts that, with just over a year to go on the News Corp. unit’s search advertising deal with Google, “it appears as though Google simply does not care about social search.” He contends it is difficult to imagine Google paying anywhere near what they were previously shelling out to MySpace, “especially as the inherent functionality of social networks is diminishing the importance of search.” The current deal expires in June 2010.
Advertising-spending growth on social networks is going to take a major hit amid the recession and the sites’ continued struggle to develop effective ad models, according to a new report from research firm eMarketer.
In pictures, Vaughan Ettienne is a champion bodybuilder of surreal musculature. In conversation, he is polite and thoughtful. And in the looking glass of his computer screen, he becomes a man of fierce, profane views on how to keep law and order.
Ever wonder what happens to your Facebook account after you die? Someone does.
That someone is Legacy Locker, a new online service announced Tuesday that allows people to securely store usernames, passwords and other access information for all their digital assets–from Facebook and MySpace accounts to Gmail and PayPal–and pass that information along to beneficiaries in the event of their death.
I’m not entirely sure that MySpace co-founder Chis DeWolfe enjoyed our encounter at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. I spent half an hour suggesting that MySpace just wasn’t cool anymore. To his credit, he didn’t lose his cool–just kept on insisting I was wrong to suggest that he’d been left standing by Facebook.
In 2007, a college student explained to me that he preferred Facebook to MySpace because MySpace (in his view) was for emo kids who liked Death Cab for Cutie and Facebook was for clever kids who liked words. “The Facebook interface is minimalist and not stupid or smeared with fingerpaint like MySpace,” he said, if I remember right. “It leaves room for wit.”
When NBC Universal and News Corp. created Hulu, they gave the video portal a valuable but short-term asset: exclusive rights to distribute NBC and Fox shows outside of the media giants’ own websites. Hulu.com has become the fourth-biggest online video distributor. But with exclusivity deal ending soon, Hulu will have to see if it can defend the audience and brand it has built.
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