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MySpace blocking YouTube?
Just caught wind of this as I was guffawing over this
World of Warcraft mashup video -- it appears that MySpace is blocking
YouTube, not just embedded videos but all YouTube URLs and even any references to the YouTube service. Apparently
MySpace hasn't responded to any inquiries from YouTube staff or MySpace users who also use YouTube. Considering the
overwhelming amount of strange and random multimedia crap I have seen embedded
into MySpace profiles, I find this a little odd. Anybody know what's up? ...
MySpace and the Music
This is about the 30th
mention of MySpace that I've made here on The Social Software Weblog.
Technorati has a MySpace tag. Flickr has a couple of
MySpace
ad photos. And Google has
millions of search results for MySpace which is also in the news…
constantly. And, we're not just talking
blogging news here either.
Billy Corgan is in the
news for using MySpace, he has a great Dark City
like wallpaper on his Space. And, live bands for Wrestlestock 2005 are
advertising that they'll be playing this event on their Spaces.
Personally I've found some great Indie tracks via the
Music page at MySpace. Give a listen to what's
playing in The Booth. ...
MySpace, NBC, and The Office
Chris DeWolfe, and the rest of the MySpace leadership team, are pretty elated by the
steadily
growing popularity of their service.
Did you catch the exclusive 'webisode' of 'The Office's Diversity Day
episode on MySpace? This episode is set to premiere on Tuesday, March 29, 2005. If you are a member of MySpace, you can
also join 'The Office' group on MySpace.
In this press release, NBC Entertainment President
Kevin Reilly says: "...This cutting-edge merging of broadcast, online and on-demand media is extremely promising in
building an awareness and buzz for this kind of special comedy… We view this as a mutually beneficial association with
MySpace that could prove to be the model for marketing future programs…"
So, no MySpace movie… yet. But soon I'm sure… ...
MySpace and Redpoint Ventures
A search of this Social
Software Weblog returns 25 results for posts mentioning MySpace.com. Alexa
lists MySpace's traffic rank at
62 today, and a recent
press release announces that MySpace.com is now owned and operated by a newly formed Delaware corporation—MySpace,
Inc.
The details of this, along with a net of $5M in financing to MySpace, Inc., from Redpoint Ventures, are outlined in
this press release.
MySpace is in the news a lot lately, with
117 hits
this evening on Google News. Is it the Music? The
Games? Think I'll ring up MySpace CEO, Chris Dewolfe sometime soon and ask him
what he thinks.
I have a year old post here on the Social
Software Weblog that is the number seven hit upon
googling MySpace this evening. This post
has a 60+ comment thread of readers bemoaning the fact that their schools block and filter their access to MySpace. It
really has had twice that number of comments but with our spam blocking comment acknowledgement system here at ...
Fox buys MySpace
Fox Interactive Media just spent $580 million
to acquire MySpace.com. Ross Levinsohn, new president of FIM, says they plan to keep the existing
MySpace management team in place: "Don't look for a rebranding of
MySpace to FoxSpace." Well, we'll see.
Update:
danah sez: it's all about
the marketing opportunity to sit in the bushes with cameras and observe the behavior patterns of the 'digital natives.'
Also, Emma points out that the $580 million bought them all of Intermix and not just MySpace, which I neglected to
mention. Intermix does 30-odd sites, of which MySpace is just the most salient object in the deal. ...
MySpace launching record label
So MySpace is launching MySpace Records on November 15 with the release of the creatively titled (ahem) "MySpace
Records: Volume I." The compilation will include a mix of major label, indie and unsigned bands, including Hollywood
Undead, the LA rock/rap group that is MySpace's first official signing. It's not at all surprising they're doing this,
but what is surprising is that the article makes no mention of whether or not they'll be distributing tracks
online. It sound like they're still producing meatspace discs, but will they also go through the iTMS, or will they do
distro and album sales within Myspace.com? Inquiring minds, and all. They'd be kinda stupid not to do their own
distro.
[Via Memeorandum] ...
MySpace, Inconvenient Truth partner up
Being bought by the owner of the Fox empire hasn't scared MySpace away from partnering with Al Gore's high profile film about global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth." Announced last week but receiving little play in the blogosphere to date, the partnership appears to be more low-key online than the previous X-Men promotion but set to leverage the online community for real-world public events. The movie's main site doesn't appear to make any reference to the partnership, as it is described on MediaPost, but MySpace friend to all Tom does have a Truth badge and link to the film's MySpace profile. According to MediaPost, "the campaign will culminate in a 10-city MySpace theater buyout on June 16, with free tickets going to select members of the film's MySpace community. MediaPost also reports that MySpace is contributing a significant amount of ad space to raise climate change awareness. The MySpace music channel is reported to be planning an artist-on-artist interview between ...
How would you change MySpace?
Sister site Download Squad has picked up the thread on the "How would you change…" series and
this one may be of interest to you folks: How would you change Myspace? ...
MySpace teams with print mag, Nylon
MySpace has announced it will partner with the print magazine Nylon to prerelease an online version of the mag with links to the MySpace pages of bands and others profiled in Nylon stories. Sounds like a good idea. The publication in question appears predictably vapid, but the model here could foretell similar agreements in the future. The move brings to mind the thesis of Nick Carr, who predicts in his forthcoming book and current Gilmor Gang appearances that on-demand media and contextual advertising will decouple high-revenue low-value content from the low-revenue high-value content it has effectively subsidized in traditional media institutions. (Think Britney Spears coverage selling the ads that then pay for the investigative journalism found in section A or F, whichever the case may be.) Perhaps the analogy here is that MySpace's partnerships like this one with Nylon will help raise funds to help pay for the hard-hitting critical thought of Fox News. Hmmm.... no it's ...
MySpace hires security specialist - what took so long?
MySpace announced today that they have hired
a former Department of Justice and Microsoft...gentleman, to fight sexual exploitation of children on the site.
Hemanshu Nigam's arrival is widely discussed, but I have to ask - why on earth did the company wait until now to add
such a position? Imagine how much horrible PR could have been averted by hiring someone to do this six months
ago, or whenever the furor was really breaking loose in the mainstream media. I'll be curious to see what kind of
commentary emerges from MySpace watchers. See also NYTimes
coverage. ...
Danah Boyd talks MySpace with Bill O'Reilly
I think Danah did a good job. Made some important points. I was surprised how calm he was about the whole
thing - until I remembered his show and MySpace are owned by the same company. Hahahah. For more info on
Danah and her work in this space see her blog. ...
boyd, Jenkins MIT interview on MySpace and DOPA
MySpace and youth social software expert danah boyd has released the full text of an email interview she and Henry Jenkins, Co-Director of Comparative Media Studies at MIT, recently did with the MIT News Office on MySpace and the proposed Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA). Lots of good detail and analysis here, a great example of the usefulness of email interviews. Helpful in understanding the proposed legislation, MySpace and youth social software in general and the public work of two prominent voices on these issues. Both boyd and Jenkins are funded by the MacArthur Foundation to do academic work on these topics currently. Here's how boyd explains her work: "For my doctoral dissertation, I am investigating why and how youth are engaging in digital publics like MySpace, how this affects identity development and how youth socialization has changed over the last century. This work is being funded by the MacArthur Foundation to help understand the nature of informal learning. Understanding ...
Did Myspace succeed in spite of, or because of, its craptacular design?
There's an interesting thread going on over at Whitespace about the
UI design (or, uh, lack thereof) of
Myspace and its impact on the growth of the site. One of the main
takes is that by employing "low" design the site appealed to a wide range of not necessarily techie folks who were
still able to highly customize their pages (especially as compared to the cookie cutter templates of
Friendster which, at the time, was basically the only other game
in town). The other take is that the design was largely irrelevant, and that the success of the site came out of Tom
et al's successful roping on of the LA club scene to kickstart the service's popularity among indie bands and their
networks. Anybody else have a take on this? ...
Does del.icio.us want to be MySpace?
It seems that everyone wants to by MySpace these days, or at least harness the customer-love (read: clickthroughs and eyeballs?) of social networking software. Del.icio.us today announced another increasingly sophisticated iteration of its new social function. Now people who've added you to their contacts list will be visible from your account, etc. Is this how RSS is going to end up being adopted, through means like this? I am perfectly capable of subscribing to peoples' bookmark feeds amongst my many feed subscriptions - but to be honest I almost never look at anything but my archive and other peoples' by tag in del.icio.us. Do readers here foresee themselves using del.icio.us as a social networking app? Perhaps they are getting ready for the hordes of new users that will come in with full Yahoo promotion. ...
Billy Bragg to MySpace: You'll get nothing and like it!
Rupert Murdoch and Billy Bragg: you have to wonder how these guys got in bed in the first place. It's a notion that'll induce Scanners-esque head explosions and I wouldn't spend much more time it, as the avowed socialist Bragg has taken his toothbrush and, we presume, did not let the door hit him on the way out of avowed capitalist Murdoch's crib. Irked by terms of service that apparently gave MySpace "a non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees) to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit, and distribute" his music, British songwriter Billy Bragg pulled his music from the social networking site. Bragg's MySpace.com page offers this explanation: "SORRY THERE'S NO MUSIC," because "once an artist posts up any content (including songs), it then belongs to My Space (AKA Rupert Murdoch) and they can do what they want with it, throughout the world without paying the ...
