It could be the ultimate admission of defeat, or, a pretty smart move given its current strategy. According to The Telgraph, MySpaceMySpace is currently discussing a partnership with FacebookFacebook where music and video content published to MySpace could easily be shared on Facebook via Facebook Connect.
How far that Connect implementation might go isn’t clear, but Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg tells The Telegraph, “MySpace could become a Facebook Connect partner – which would allow people to share content they liked from MySpace with their Facebook network.” MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta, who used to work at Facebook, confirms the talks with the paper…
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MySpaceID, the social network’s login platform that’s comparable to Facebook Connect, is coming to Windows Live and its sister properties, including Windows Live’s main portal, Windows Live MessengerWindows Live Messenger, and Hotmail. In short, the new functionality will allow users to import their recent MySpaceMySpace notifications into these Microsoft properties, which rank among the web’s most popular services.
Beginning today, you’ll be able to automatically view blog posts, recent photo uploads, your friends’ status updates, and shared music without having to head back to the main MySpace portal. The feature uses activitystrea.ms, the protocol that’s also used by FacebookFacebook and OperaOpera.
MySpaceID launched at around the same time as Facebook Connect, but so far it hasn’t seen nearly as much distribution. Still, it continues to make some steady progress — last March it launched a major update to the platform that enabled the stream syndication features we’re seeing today on Microsoft’s sites. Via techcrunch.com
TweetDeckTweetDeck is fast becoming the de facto accessory for social media fanatics. The Twitter desktop application is certainly seeing formidable competition, mainly from the likes of SeesmicSeesmic, or web-based alternatives, but their ultimate mission is to become more than just a TwitterTwitter app and be a browser for the real-time web.
A new version of TweetDeck (v0.30), which launches this morning, aims to push the application in that direction. With Twitter still front and center, the new release also embraces a boatload of additional FacebookFacebook functionality and adds in MySpaceMySpace integration. It’s almost everything Conan envisioned for the year 3000.
The consummate Twitter follower will also love that today marks the simultaneous launch of the TweetDeck Directory which features predefined columns for one-click following en masse and instant column addition to your TweetDeck… Read on at mashable.com
MySpaceMySpace is close to acquiring popular social music service iLike, we’ve confirmed with multiple sources. The deal, which should close this week, will be MySpace’s first acquisition since new CEO Owen Van Natta took control of the company in April 2009. The price is “around $20 million.” iLike, which launched in late 2006, is a social music recommendation service that now has more than 50 million registered users. It tracks what you listen to and like and gives you recommendations on new music based on that data as well as what your friends are listening to. It is the top music application on FacebookFacebook, BeboBebo, Hi5Hi5 and just about every other social network other than MySpace, which has MySpace Music… Read on at TechCrunch.com
As Myspace.com continues its strategic move toward becoming an “entertainment portal,” the growth to Myspace Music should help cement their presence in this space. Since the site’s launch in September 2008, unique visitors to the music.myspace.com subdomain have increased 190 percent — growing from 4.2 million unique visitors to 12.1 million in June 2009. Year-over-year traffic to the URL has increased 1,017 percent… Read on at Nielsen.com
Micro-payments across the gaming world is gaining serious traction, especially on social networks. PlaySpan, which powers micro-payments across over 1,000 video games and virtual worlds, is launching marketplace storefronts for FacebookFacebook and MySpaceMySpace (which will be rolled out soon). The marketplace will which let users purchase online game items, virtual goods, and game currencies for online games and applications directly from their social networks. What makes the marketplace interesting is… Read on at TechCrunch.com
MySpaceMySpace hasn’t had a good year. It’s been slowly dropping in traffic like a ship unwittingly taking on water, ousted the MySpace founders, hired a new CEO, and most recently, slashed 30% of its workforce. Dark times, indeed.
However, despite all of these ominous signs, there has been one gleaming bright spot: MySpace Music. Specifically, MySpace is still a very popular hub for the music and entertainment community. At least, that’s what we thought until we saw some depressing numbers from Hitwise. The summary: MySpace is losing its entertainment edge… Read on at Mashable
Implementing a successful social media campaign requires patience, commitment and stated objectives. However, as more companies enter into social media marketing, its helpful to look at their mistakes to educate others on what not to do. I came across TopRank’s Internet Marketing blog and I agree with both their best and worst practices. Read on at examiner…
You have insightful tweets, write amazing blog posts, and can make a viral video like it’s nobody’s business. So why don’t you have 500,000 followers, 50,000 views per video, and your own personal social media army? Read on at Mashable…
Last couple of months have been very interesting as far as new startups, projects and services go. We’ve seen Microsoft switch its search engine from Live to BingBing, and Wolfram Alpha rose to cater to the needs of geeks all over the planet; on the other hand, TwitterTwitter’s huge growth has slowed down considerably in June. Compete now displays traffic results for June, and I’ve never been more excited to see them, as now we can finally paint some kind of picture about the success of these online services, new and old. Details…
It could be the ultimate admission of defeat, or, a pretty smart move given its current strategy. According to The Telgraph, MySpaceMySpace
is currently discussing a partnership with FacebookFacebook
MySpaceID, the social network’s login platform that’s comparable to Facebook Connect, is coming to Windows Live and its sister properties, including Windows Live’s main portal, 
