Posts Tagged with ‘myspace’

Mere hours after Michael Arrington reported that his sources suggested that MySpace would roll out support of OpenID some time later this week, the rumors have been confirmed officially in a press release. And it would have been strange not to expect a big announcement from MySpace the day before Facebook’s developer conference, right?
So initially MySpace will serve as an issuer of login credentials for its users (so that their MySpace URLs can be used as logins for other sites [...]

For whatever reason, when I read that a select few Flickr users will be able to license their photos through Getty, the Black Eyed Peas song "Where is the Love?" came to mind — not because I believe aspiring professional photographers who participate in the Flickr community have a particular affinity for the BEPs, but because the whole proposal has a sort of Willy Wonka's golden ticket air to it that rubs me the wrong way. Though [...]

If you've been lingering around Profy for a while, you might recall that I recently covered the mobile social platform Fring along with others like Xumii.  You might also recall that Fring opened its API to developers interested in designing mobile social applications.  Just a few weeks since that announcement, developers have already delivered two heavy-hitting applications to the Fring community.
That's right, merely weeks after announcing the release of its API to developers, Fring has landed applications for [...]

We see a lot of different approaches to becoming unique in social media.  This is one of those moves that I'm just not sure what I think about it yet.  Multiply, a reasonably large social network directed towards adults, is now offering premium storage for photos and videos for the price of $19.95 annually.
The new premium storage will be called "digital scrapbook," and is based on some pretty nifty functionality.  An Adobe Air application will upload videos and photos [...]

When you pay $580 million for a company, it is completely normal to be upset when that company under performs. That is what is happening to Ruport Murdoch right now, as he watches recent acquisition MySpace falter under the onslaught of the Zuckerberg machine that is FaceBook.
What prompted the tantrum from the NewsCorp leader? FaceBook's 162% percent increase in market share over the course of a year. That's a substantial slice of the social networking pie. It represents about 127 [...]

For me, any day is a good day when another developer pops up with a new mobile social platform. Today is such a day, as Jibe is moving from the alpha to the closed beta testing phase.
There have been wealth of new mobile social platforms making appearances as of late. My favorite variety have been mobile social aggregators. This is largely because I have my paws in far too many social applications, and any platform [...]

I have been playing with the beta release of the new Adium 1.3. I fall more in love with this instant message and chat client every day. It offers more connections to more types of accounts than you'd think to find in one place, and now it has gone one step further and added FaceBook and MySpace functionality.
To be fair, I actually think Adium added MySpace IM functionality an update or two ago, but with so much to offer I [...]

With Facebook just overtaking MySpace in the social networking supremecy race, many believe things are pretty good for the two top dogs.  However, there are those that believe hard times are ahead for the big networks, as smaller and more focused networks steal the attention and affections of advertisers. 
I read a post the other day by Om Malik on the direction of advertising on social networks that really caught my attention.  As Malik sees it, there [...]

Though the 2008 presidential election has already reach historic proportions with both women and minorities being represented in the tight Democratic primary, this election has signified a shift in the way candidates go about fundraising and targeting potential constituents. Many political experts are attributing Barack Obama's achievement of the Democratic nomination to his internet campaign, and believe that Obama's skillful use of social tools, social networks and his own website could be the key to defeating John McCain in [...]