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The MySpace Notifier for Firefox

Here's a small tool you can add to your Firefox browser that will help you manage your MySpace profile, and probably save you some time. Keep up with what your friends are doing with your MySpace profile with the MySpace Notifier. The MySpace Notifier will let you know whenever you have a message, comment or friend request on MySpace.

MySpace Opens Profile Data, Links to Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter

Los Angeles-based MySpace said Thursday morning that it has launched a new initiative to allow Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter to pull public profile data into their websites. MySpace said its "Data Availability" effort will allow users to dynamically share their public profile information with other sites. MySpace will allow users to control what information they share with who, including basic profile information, photos, videos, and friends. The initial links will show up in Yahoo's Instant Messenger application, eBay's profiles, MySpace's own Photobucket subsidiary, and also to provide better profile information to the popular Twitter instant messaging application.

MySpace Adopts Google's Gears To Search Messages

Google's Gears technology is available to search and sort user messages on MySpace. While MySpace is not taking advantage of offline access, MySpace is using Gears to move processing to users' PCs and free up server power. MySpace expects improved performance and cost savings from Gears, it said at the Google I/O conference.

MySpace Uses Google's Gears

Google's Gears technology is available to search and sort user messages on MySpace. While MySpace is not taking advantage of offline access, MySpace is using Gears to move processing to users' PCs and free up server power. MySpace expects improved performance and cost savings from Gears, it said at the Google I/O conference.

MySpace Uses Google's Gears

Google's Gears technology is available to search and sort user messages on MySpace. While MySpace is not taking advantage of offline access, MySpace is using Gears to move processing to users' PCs and free up server power. MySpace expects improved performance and cost savings from Gears, it said at the Google I/O conference.

MySpace Adopts Google's Gears To Search Messages

Google's Gears technology is available to search and sort user messages on MySpace. While MySpace is not taking advantage of offline access, MySpace is using Gears to move processing to users' PCs and free up server power. MySpace expects improved performance and cost savings from Gears, it said at the Google I/O conference.

MySpace Uses Google's Gears

Google's Gears technology is available to search and sort user messages on MySpace. While MySpace is not taking advantage of offline access, MySpace is using Gears to move processing to users' PCs and free up server power. MySpace expects improved performance and cost savings from Gears, it said at the Google I/O conference.

MySpace spammers given largest fine in CAN-SPAM history

MySpace won the largest CAN-SPAM judgment in US history this week when the defendants failed to show up in court. The US District Court for the Central District of California made a default judgment against Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines for using MySpace to send more than 700,000 spam messages to users of the popular social networking service. The result is $234 million in damages for MySpace—assuming, of course, that Wallace and Rines can be tracked down and forced to pay up.

MySpace Treads Carefully With "HyperTargeting"

Ian Lamont writes "MySpace is preparing to boost its advertising systems, by launching a targeted ad platform called HyperTargeting and creating a Web-based system that lets vendors purchase ads without dealing with human sales teams. HyperTargeting will 'look at a person's interests listed on their public profile and then classify the user into particular interest-specific categories.' MySpace claims that early tests resulted in a 300 percent increase in the number of ad click-throughs. The company apparently learned a lot from Facebook's earlier experiences with Beacon — MySpace members will be able to opt out of HyperTargeting, according to the company."

MySpace stripped of myspace.co.uk domain victory

Nominet elections feel the hand of Rupert MurdochAn independent appeals panel has overturned a heavily-criticised decision to hand control of the myspace.co.uk domain to Rupert Murdoch's Fox Interactive Media.…

MySpace Bridges Out to eBay, Twitter, Photobucket, Yahoo!

MySpace has just announced a "Data Availability" initiative that will, in effect, link your MySpace account to your account at Yahoo!, Twitter, eBay and Photobucket.

Google's Gears Gains Ground

Google's open-source development tool is seeing adoption grow.SAN FRANCISCO—One of Google's primary goals is to advance the capabilities of the browser and the company has done so with its Gears offline-application-enabling technology. Advancing the browser also means adoption by key players. At the Google I/O conference here May 28, Allen Hurff, vice president of engineering at social networking player MySpace, said MySpace is using Gears to make its site and products easier to use. "It gives you full text capability and a SQL database on the client machine" for local storage, Hurff said. "Today, MySpace is launching enhanced functionality for MySpace mail using Gears," Chris Prince, a Google software engineer, said in a May 28 blog post. "They are using the original Gears Database API with Full Text Search to enable fast and easy search

MySpace partners with Yahoo, Twitter and eBay in "data portability" initiative

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MySpace's Melting Makes Murdoch Mad

Barence writes "Facebook has overtaken rival social network MySpace for the first time — provoking an angry outburst from Rupert Murdoch, the man who paid $580m for MySpace only three years ago."

MySpace Lets Users Share Profile Data on Yahoo, Twitter, eBay

Los Angeles - News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace has announced the launch of a new "Data Availability" initiative, which will allow users to share their public profile data on third-party websites of their choosing, including Yahoo (NASD: YHOO), eBay, Photobucket and Twitter. The idea is to eliminate the need to update personal information across many websites, and instead use MySpace for updating, to include basic profile information, friend networks, photos, blog posts and videos.

MySpace Gets $6 Million in Lawsuit Against Spammer

Thursday's ruling against Web marketing company Media Breakaway pales next to a $230 million verdict MySpace won in U.S. District Court last month against two Internet marketers, Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines. "MySpace has essentially declared a war on spam and phishing on our site," said Hemanshu Nigam, chief security officer.

MySpace Gets $6M from Spammer

Thursday's ruling against Web marketing company Media Breakaway pales next to a $230 million verdict MySpace won in U.S. District Court last month against two Internet marketers, Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines. "MySpace has essentially declared a war on spam and phishing on our site," said Hemanshu Nigam, chief security officer.

Google announces MySpace email pact, shows off phone

Google announces MySpace email pact, shows off phoneSan Francisco - Google on Wednesday showed off one of the first working phones built using its open source Android software and announced an email pact with social networking site MySpace.

Spammers ordered to pay MySpace 230 mln dlrs

A woman looks at the MySpace website. A US judge has ordered a pair of accused spammers to pay MySpace about 230 million dollars in what was being billed Wednesday as a record-setting punishment for such Internet abuses.

Woman Indicted In MySpace Suicide Case

longacre writes "The Associated Press is reporting an indictment has been handed down in the sad case of Megan Meier, the girl who committed suicide after receiving upsetting MySpace messages from someone she perceived to be her boyfriend. It was later determined the boy, Josh Evans, was a fictitious identity created by a neighbor of Meier's family. Lori Drew, of a St. Louis suburb, has been charged with 'one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to get information used to inflict emotional distress on the girl.' Interestingly, despite the alleged crime having occurred strictly in Missouri, the case was investigated by the FBI's St. Louis and Los Angeles field offices, and the trial will be held in Los Angeles, home of MySpace's servers.

MySpace woos developers in search of apps

MySpace is welcoming developers back to the fold with the launch of a dedicated developer platform in Sydney.

MySpace Wins Record $230M Suit Against Spammer

MySpace is emerging the winner of a $230 million judgment against a spammer in what's believed to be the largest antispam case ever.

MySpace wins record $230m judgement against spammers

MySpace has won a $230 million anti-spam judgment against notorious spammer Sanford Wallace and his partner Walter Rines. US District Judge Audrey Collins made the order - reckoned to be the largest ever in an anti-spam case - after the duo failed to appear in court.

MySpace Wins Record $230M Suit Against Spammer

MySpace is emerging the winner of a $230 million judgment against a spammer in what's believed to be the largest antispam case ever.

MySpace wins bumper spam payout

MySpace has won a $234m (£120m) legal judgement over junk messages sent to members of the social networking site.

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