MySpace
The MySpace Redesign Is Almost Here—Some Details
MySpace is preparing to roll out its long-awaited redesign, perhaps as early as tomorrow, at least for new users. It’s not going to be pretty. Well, actually, it is quite…
Wall Street Journal Investigation Into MySpace Was Quietly Killed
A few days ago the Wall Street Journal published a series of articles about a supposed Facebook privacy breach. We and others noted that the article was complete rubbish. We…
Hey New MySpace Logo, New Gap Logo Has Some Words For You
The new MySpace logo or the new Gap logo, which do people hate more? It seems to close to call at this point. But after days of sitting back and…
MySpace Unveils New, Artsy Logo
If you’ve been following the news lately, you’ve probably realized that logo redesigns are a kind of a big deal. Today at the Warm Gun Design conference in San Francisco,…
MySpace Loses Another Vice President: Tracy Akselrud To Brew PR
Whatever MySpace has up its sleeve for its upcoming mid-October relaunch apparently isn’t enough to keep all the remaining execs at the company. Vice President of Communications Tracy Akselrud has…
MySpace's Last Stand: Project Futura Coming October 15
It’s no secret that embattled MySpace is working on a complete redesign of its site in hopes of reversing the staggering loss of users and traffic over the last couple…
Ex-MySpace Execs Quietly Building New Startup Called Namesake
One good thing to come out of MySpace’s slow demise: a bunch of former employees are creating startups left and right, mostly in Los Angeles and helping to grow the…
MySpace Beefs Up The Stream With Full-Screen Videos
MySpace is adding a new feature today that allows users to embed video streams within their activity streams. Powered by Redux, videos are seen directly within an activity stream and…
The New MySpace Movies, Presented By… The Facebook Movie
It seems as if the ads for Sony’s upcoming movie The Social Network — you know, the Facebook movie — are everywhere on the Internet. They’re here on TechCrunch, they’re…
Worldwide Advertising On Social Networks Estimated To Hit $3.3 Billion In 2010
Social networks worldwide are estimated to bring in $3.3 billion in advertising dollars this year, according to updated estimates by eMarketer. That number represents a 31 percent increase from 2009’s…
eMarketer: Ad Sales On Facebook To Reach $1.3B In 2010; MySpace Sales To Plummet
According to the latest research from eMarketer, advertisers will spend $1.28 billion worldwide to reach Facebook’s 500 million users compared to $665 million in ad revenue in 2009. US ad…
Jon Miller On New MySpace: "It's Rock And Roll"
Fortune’s Daniel Roth asked News Corp. Digital Chief Jon Miller about MySpace at the Fortune Brainstorm conference in Aspen. Miller joked “well it’s still around” and went on to say…
Survey: Facebook Lovers Hate Facebook
A survey that went out this morning called the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), garnered a lot of attention around the blogosphere. While this survey is nothing new, this year,…
New Market Research: Social Media Sites as Annoying to U.S. Customers as Cable Providers, Airlines
A new study by ForeSee Results and the American Customer Satisfaction Index finds that U.S. consumers regard social media sites Facebook and Myspace as lowly as they regard cable providers,…
Visits to MySpace UK have halved in 6 months say sources
The number of visitors to MySpace UK has halved in the last six months, TechCrunch Europe has learned, leading to a fresh round of layoffs at the London office of…
MySpace UK Traffic Is Half What It Used To Be (And Morale Is Down, Too)
The number of visitors to MySpace UK has halved in the last six months, TechCrunch Europe has learned, leading to a fresh round of layoffs at the London office of…
Wall Street Journal Throws A Softball To MySpace
I’m sort of scratching my head at the Wall Street Journal’s article (mostly behind a paywall) that MySpace is in negotiations over some kind of new search advertising deal. “News…
After More Than 10 Years, Indie Music Community GarageBand.com Folds
GarageBand.com, the well-known indie music store, discovery & review service and online community, will be discontinued as of July 15th, 2010, more than 10 years after it first saw the…
MySpace Co-President Jason Hirschhorn Out
Less than a month ago I asked the MySpace Co-Presidents, Mike Jones and Jason Hirschhorn (pictured left), if it was possible to effectively run a company with two equal leaders.…
BrightEdge Debuts Powerful SEO Platform For Businesses, Signs MySpace And Others
San Mateo, CA-based BrightEdge is today taking the wraps of its enterprise-class, on-demand SEO platform, after hammering on it for the past couple of years along with some early adopting…
Social networks overtake search engines in UK – should Google be worried?
Hitwise, the web analytics firm, has a report out today that claims that social networks now receive more UK Internet visits than search engines. Which, if the case, would imply…
As Twitter Starts To Crack Down On In-Stream Ads, Ad.ly Turns To MySpace
In-stream advertising network Ad.ly, which launched last year, is moving beyond just advertising on Twitter today. The startup just announced a deal with MySpace to allow the social network’s members…
WSJ: Facebook, MySpace & Others Share Identifying User Data With Advertisers
A report in the Wall Street Journal this evening reveals that Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and a number of other popular social sites are passing along data that advertisers could potentially…
MySpace Follows Our Advice, Promises To Simplify Privacy Settings
Last week, as the outrage grew over the privacy implications of Facebook’s new ambitions to spread its tentacles deeper into the Web, Michael offered some advice to MySpace. This is…
MySpace Spinmaster Dani Dudeck Resigns, Moves To Zynga As GM Corporate Communications
Another day, another MySpace executive resignation. Dani Dudeck, Vice President of Global Communications, has resigned from MySpace, says a source, and will shortly become the top communications executive at Zynga.…
iLike Founders Ali And Hadi Partovi Step Down From MySpace Executive Team
Last August, MySpace acquired social music service iLike. As part of the deal iLike founders (and twin brothers) Ali Partovi and Hadi Partovi joined MySpace’s executive team, with Hadi becoming…
It's Complicated, Literally. Facebook Kills Off Its Lite Version
I fully understand that Facebook must be an extremely hard site to design. I mean, it has 400 million users, many of whom use it several times a day. If…
More Execs Walk Away From Fox/MySpace: Slingshot Labs President & EVP Resign
Slingshot Labs, a research and development arm for News Corp.’s digital properties, has lost its two top execs. President Josh Berman and EVP Strategy and Product Diego Berkadin gave News…
MySpace Gets Serious About Events
Here’s a ray of product sunshine in an otherwise overcast MySpace world. Tonight they are launching a new MySpace events and calendar platform that integrates technology from MySpace Music, iLike,…
(Very Short) Interview With MySpace Exec Dani Dudeck
The new rule around here is that if someone interesting comes through our office, we do a video interview. There are no exceptions, and your only real choice is to…