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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Conde Net, the online arm of Conde Nast Publications, has launched four MySpace applications ranging from fashion, food, gadgets to scrapbook. Here are the details of all the four applications which you can add to your MySpace profile: Fashion Flash: This application will feature daily updates about the latest trends in fashion,shopping, beauty and celebrity [...]
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
MySpace has announced the launch of the Community Builder advertising platform which will allow the advertisers to build and customize brand profiles on the social networking website. The Community Builder is currently in private beta and is being tested by Deep Focus, an online marketing company. The Community Builder platform will be available in both [...]
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
The localized version of MySpace, MySpace India, has been official launched today. MySpace is looking very aggressive in its international expansion plans, especially in the Asia Pacific region with its recent launch in Korea as well. Surprisingly, the “BETA” tag has not been removed from the site yet. Perhaps, it will be removed after the [...]
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
As anticipated in my previous post about potential YouTube ban in Indonesia, the Indonesian ISPs have blocked access to YouTube. Wait, it is not only YouTube this time. There are other services which have become victims of Internet censorship by the Indonesian government. The list includes MetaCafe, MySpace, RapidShare and Multiply as well. This was [...]
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
MySpace, has officially announced that MySpace Latino, a bilingual version of the popular social network which is focused Hispanic MySpace users, is out of beta now. To celebrate the launch, MySpace is hosting Show Secreto performance by singer Tego Calderón, Latin reggae band Locos por Juana and electro-acoustic band Circo on April 11th at Studio [...]
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Hitwise has released a report according to which out of total traffic coming to Wikipedia, approx 10% goes back to Google and over 3% go to MySpace. It is well understood that people searching for reference articles and information come to Wikipedia from Google (Google contributes to 51% of Wikipedia traffic) and other search engines. [...]
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Yahoo has joined OpenSocial according to the blog post on its website and a post on Official Google Blog. Google, MySpace and Yahoo are partnering to form a Non-profit OpenSocial Foundation which will ensure neutrality and longevity of OpenSocial as an open, free and community driven specification for building social applications. The non-profit organization [...]
