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Saturday May 26 | Customer Interaction Solutions

Inactive Myspace Users Can Now Use Chatwing's Latest Chat Box to Liven Up their Accounts

San Francisco, CA, May 26, 2012 -- Myspace, one of the most famous blogging and social platforms, is still generating a lot of sign-ups. However, Internet statistics has also implied that Myspace suffered from a large percentage of attrition ever since Facebook and Google+ stepped up.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Blog News, Startups, Facebook, Marketing, Twitter

Wed May 23, 2012

SocalTECH.com

RocketFrog Launches With $2M, MySpace's Anderson

Los Angeles-based RocketFrog , a new startup developing casino games on Facebook, launched Tuesday, saying that it has raised $2M in angel funding, and also added MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson as an advisor.

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Related Topix: Social Software

Sports of Yore

The Facebook IPO, An Echo of the Dotcom Bubble

Many readers will remember the Dotcom Boom, that brief era at the end of the 1990s when venture capitalists and investors happily threw money at every start-up with a website and an idea, only to see that money disappear when the vast majority of these start-ups proved bereft of a semblance of a viable business model or of any prospect of ever ... (more)

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation

Fri May 18, 2012

CBS News

Beyond Facebook: A look at social network history

NEW YORK &#8212 Facebook may have made social networking a worldwide cultural phenomenon, but it wasn't the first Internet company to connect people online.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Blog News, Friendster

Thu May 17, 2012

Mashable

7 Companies That Could Have Been Facebook

It's been a long road for Facebook. What began as an intimate platform has turned into a social networking giant serving more than 900 million users .

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Time Warner, Media, Computers, Friendster

Wed May 16, 2012

Silicon Alley Insider

Google Just Launched Another Baffling Social App For The iPhone

No, not Google+. This one is called Schemer, and it's an app designed to help you figure out what to do.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, iPhone

JamBase

Myspace to Broadcast Hangout Fest Performances

Tens of thousands of music lovers are set to arrive on the beautiful beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama when the Hangout Music Fest kicks-off to a sold-out crowd this weekend.

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Related Topix: Gulf Shores, AL, Pop/Rock, G. Love & Special Sauce

Tecca

How Facebook can avoid going the way of MySpace

MySpace was a social networking pioneer. According to analytical firm comScore, at its height in October 2008, MySpace had more than 76,000,000 unique visitors in a single month.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook

Tue May 15, 2012

Forbes.com

New Life: How Myspace Spawned A Start-Up Ecosystem

Regions that spawn great start-ups often begin with one huge success that gives life to many other companies.

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Related Topix: Social Software, WebMD, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Startups, Facebook

Mon May 14, 2012

BusinessWeek

Remember MySpace? A Closer Look at Yahoo CEO Levinsohn's R sum

The struggling Web portal today named Ross Levinsohn its interim chief executive after Thompson resigned.

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Related Topix: Social Software, American University, Startups, Facebook

Tue May 08, 2012

Talking Points Memo

Myspace Settles With FTC For Misleading Users About Privacy

Years after it peaked in popularity, once mighty social network Myspace is back in the headlines, although not for anything good: The website, now owned by pop star Justin Timberlake and a company called Specific Media, on Tuesday reached a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over charges that it misled users about sharing their ... (more)

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Related Topix: Social Software, MySpace.com, Startups, US News, Liberal Political News

Thu May 03, 2012

NBC Bay Area

13 Million Facebook Users Don't Use Privacy Controls

JULY 10: In this photo illustration a girl browses the social networking site Facebook on July 10, 2007 in London, England.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Essex County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Greater London County, England, Mark Zuckerberg

Free Republic

Racially charged social media postings may come up at Zimmerman trial

George Zimmerman's defense attorney says he will not comment on a Myspace page that portrays his client in a "less-than-favorable" light, because the racially charged social media postings could come up at his murder trial.

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Related Topix: Social Software

Wed May 02, 2012

I-Newswire.com

Blackhawk Mines: Myspace Making A Comeback

The former leading social network site Myspace announced in Monday that it's getting a resurgence in popularity due to their introduction of a new online music player.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook

Tue May 01, 2012

WXPN-FM Philadelphia

JD McPherson - Artist To Watch May 2012

Stemming from Oklahoma, roots rocker JD McPherson just released his highly anticipated Rounder Records debut album His true-blue rockabilly combined with the classic rock sound that will satisfy any purist, packs a punch that leaves audiences enchanted.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Twitter

Curbed

Wire: HGTV's Doory Awards; Fashion Designer Lists Reno'd Home

Surf Lodge, one of Montauk's most famous destinations, just sold. Curbed Hamptons rounds up reactions to the shattering news.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Real Estate

Curbed

New to Market: Designer Robert Rodriguez Completely Renovated the...

Whoa, this 1929 house on North Hillcrest Road in Beverly Hills is nearly unrecognizable from the last time we saw it back in 2009.

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Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Beverly Hills, CA, Real Estate

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