Entertainment Weekly reports that CBS has ordered a comedy pilot about young gents starting their careers at Groupon. This is all well and good--we'd watch it, if we got a particularly witty email. But we think it's time for MORE tech companies to get television pilots--and we have a few loglines for networks we think could use them! Read More
“I don’t touch Facebook,” declared Michael Romanowicz, 29, a freelance web designer who nixed his profile and more than 300 friends on the social network last year after he decided it was making him unproductive. (Worse, it was showing him too many pictures of his ex-girlfriend.) “I’m a digital professional and I fundamentally disagree with the philosophy of how Facebook has structured their product.”
It’s not that he and the social network didn’t have some great times. “What was really cool was that one of my friends was one of the first few hundred Facebook users, and for some reason he had a super admin access,” he said. They used the account to snoop through strangers’ photos.
But Facebook became “annoying” and “inundating” as it grew, and at some point, it stopped being fun. Read More
Big Fuel Communications, the braintrust behind MySpace's marketing campaign, are massively growing their Manhattan headquarters.
The social media marketing and branded content agency has taken 40,000 square feet at 40 West 23rd Street, which also houses Home Depot's Chelsea store. We should clarify they did some work for MySpace and Fox a few years ago, and also Read More
MySpace, the troubled social network with a giant "For Sale" sign planted on its front lawn, has a buyout offer from mobile community company MocoSpace. See how the names are similar, with the "Space" at the end? It's a start!
"MySpace was a pioneer in the social revolution and we think their business could be Read More
The tech pundits got this one right. A round of pats on the back is in order for anyone who's been speculating about News Corp.'s eventual spinoff of MySpace, which it bought for $580 million back in 2005. paidContent reports:
"With a new structure in place, now is the right time to consider strategic options for this business," Read More
Earlier today, we were tickled to come across a cheeky online petition aiming to rally MySpace users and purchase the ailing social network from News Corp. We reached out to the site's shadowy executive committee, and just got a response from "Adam," who linked us to the Twitter profile of 140adam, which purports Read More
Citizens of a highly unresponsive community governed by a widely maligned tyrant are rallying behind the banner of revolution in hopes of reclaiming what once was theirs. An open letter to News Corp. CEO and MySpace owner Rupert Murdoch at buymyspace.org outlines a plan whereby users of deteriorating social network MySpace will plot a Read More
Mike Jones, CEO of News Corp's digital division, is considering a possible spinoff or sale of MySpace a day after the social network slashed its staff in half, Bloomberg reports. That'll be a tough sale. Who wants to buy a social network that's losing tons of money, just flopped its big redesign and Read More
You can smell the schadenfraude in the blogosphere today as Myspace announces heavy layoffs.
For a while the social network was flying high, even as traditional media was coming undone.
Now it seems that the "network effect" will lead to a world of almost complete Facebook domination.
But Myspace recently unveiled a major redesign, and in that effort Read More
While every was liveblogging about the Verizon iPhone that won't be on sale for weeks, Myspace decided to lay off 47 percent of its workforce.
Myspace still has 130 million users but no idea what to do with them.
Myspace, the social network never made into a movie, was bought by News Corp for $580 million Read More
Myspace logged 54.5 million unique visitors in November and brings in $347 million in ad revenue a year.
For a growing startup, those numbers would be amazing. But for Myspace, founded in 2003, it means the end may be near.
News Corp is planning massive layoffs at Myspace, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Between a third and Read More
Myspace and Facebook are going to make a joint announcement today -- an unprecedented event in the history of these once-competitive rivals.
The invitation, reported by Mashable's Ben Parr, doesn't say much: "Please join us for an invitation-only announcement by Mike Jones, CEO of Myspace, and Dan Rose, VP of Partnerships and Platform marketing, Facebook."
Of Read More
A week after running a front-page story about how Facebook was leaking users' private data to advertisers, The Wall Street Journal has published basically the exact same story about MySpace, but neglected to give it the same fanfare in print or on the web.
Both pieces focused on the fact that these social networks include Read More
The irony of MySpace hosting a screening and Q&A for the upcoming Facebook film, The Social Network, was not lost on the teenage audience in Union Square last night.
"This must be really weird for them, cause MySpace is like a social network too" said Amy, a 14 year old from the Upper East Side. "But Read More
3-2-1...blastoff? After months of anticipation (fed by Tweets, postings on Facebook, entries on the site's blog) a new something called Virb is set to launch today.
It's actually a new iteration of of Virb°, which was previously a social networking site (somewhere along the way it seems to have lost the degrees symbol, Read More
