Posts Tagged ‘myspace’

Via Ars Technica
By Julian Sanchez
| Published: December 05, 2008 - 10:01AM CT

Stacy Snyder, a federal court has ruled, won’t be teaching kids the three Arrrrs
any time soon: They’ve rejected Snyder’s claim that her First Amendment
rights were violated when a MySpace photo showing her engaged in a bit
of boozy buccaneering, as well as posts complaining [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Michael Arrington on December 1, 2008
If you thought Randall Stross’ attack on Tesla yesterday was in poor taste, wait until you read what Michael Wolff has to say about MySpace. In a dinner interview with BusinessWeek columnist Jon Fine, Wolff says:
…if you’re on MySpace now, you’re a [expletive] cretin. And [...]

Via Mashable

October 26, 2008 - 1:18 pm PDT - by Paul Glazowski 3 Comments

Perhaps the stereotype holds no ground anymore, but I’ll venture to guess it’s still not often that you’ll see something big roll out for Canada that can’t be used by an American audience. Yet, such is the [...]

Via Media Shift
by Jeffrey D. Neuburger, October 15, 2008
It’s not just students who can get into difficulty for school-related blogging.
In a recent case, a federal court rejected a challenge brought by a non-tenured teacher when the public school at which he taught decided not to renew his contract. The school had accused the teacher of overly familiar [...]

Via Mashable

October 12, 2008 - 8:36 pm PDT - by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins

Adam Ostrow and SocialTimes’ Nick O’Neill were ahead of the curve on this one.
About a month ago, they spotted what looked to be an advertising platform at MySpace targeted primarily at musicians. It promised “options for targeting users [...]

Via ARS Technica
By David Chartier | Published: October 07, 2008 - 10:25PM CT

Social networking made the leap from desktops to mobile phones a long time ago, and a new report suggests that MySpace and Facebook still dominate even on the small screen. Too bad the two market leaders may be doing more harm than good to mobile [...]

Via CNN.com
By Larry Shaughnessy
CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) — When you see people at the office using such Internet sites as Facebook and MySpace, you might suspect those workers are slacking off.

A social-networking site for the world of spying officially launches for the U.S. intelligence community this month.

But that’s not the case at the CIA, [...]

Via CNN.com
By Larry Shaughnessy
CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) — When you see people at the office using such Internet sites as Facebook and MySpace, you might suspect those workers are slacking off.

A social-networking site for the world of spying officially launches for the U.S. intelligence community this month.

But that’s not the case at the CIA, [...]

Via Mashable
MySpace appears to have soft launched their self-service advertising platform this evening. First spotted by Nick O’Neill over at SocialTimes, the platform would appear to be targeted at MySpace’s large musician community, offering them options for targeting users based on a number of demographic and interest-related characteristics.
As opposed to most ad networks where the [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Jacqui Cheng | Published: September 22, 2008 - 07:55AM CT
A federal judge has ruled that a Pennsylvania school can suspend two eighth-graders who created a fake MySpace profile of their principal depicting him as a pedophile and a sex addict, among other things. The September 11 ruling said the students’ civil rights [...]