Myspace: Five Popular Features

Myspace is one of the biggest social networking media originated from California with more than 1000 employees that works hard to make Myspace successful. The origin of Myspace domain is a site owned by YourZcom, Inc although it is a big competition on different social networking sites they never intend go down because of outstanding features of Myspace.

During past years 2007 and 2008 Myspace had continuously upgraded their site with more enjoying layouts and features. Users had enjoyed surfing and personalizing their site with colorful and fun layouts. This is also the website that allows users to update their daily status and other fun applications, so no means of being a biggest loser of other competing social media sites.

Top 5 best features of Myspace:

o Bulletins – this were most recent posts are posted by the user’s contacts or friends. Contact and friend’s details are also found in this section so you can be more updated with social friends.

o MyspaceIM – this an interesting tool because this allows the users to talk or interact with the friends online via Myspace. It is not required anymore to add specific or individual email addresses to chat because Myspace had created an Instant messenger within the account. This can notify the user with friends that are available online, messages and comments on account.

o Myspace Mobile – who said that you will always need a computer to login to your Myspace account? This tool had been made to make Myspace more accessible. A user can check Myspace account through Mobile phones. There are mobile phone carriers that promote Myspace, AT&T, Roger wireless and Vodafone.

o Myspace forums – Myspace itself wanted to interact with Myspace users to know feedback, comments, opinions and ideas. This is a good tool that will allow user and Myspace admin to talk about new updates and upgrades with the account.

o Myspace news – In 2007, Myspace launched Myspace news, a new service that displays news in RSS feeds that even a Myspace user can submit. A user can also rank news posted by voting. The most voted news gets, the higher level and will continue to move up.

Businesses may want to take advantage of demographically targeted advertising on Myspace.

Even though that the technology has evolved number of social media tools or sites, Myspace is still considered as one of the Pioneers of this technology. This had been and will always be a fun site for old and new users. Myspace will continue to upgrade the site to make it more interesting. Expect more upgrades, new applications and more features in the upcoming years.

MySpace to push deeper into entertainment

The waning prospects of MySpace, once the dominate social network, are pushing parent company News Corp. to make some startling moves.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., said he plans to reshape MySpace into an “entertainment portal.”

The Journal reported that MySpace will enable the site’s users, the number of which is quickly shrinking, to access entertainment and related information. Murdoch, however, didn’t offer the paper any details about what this new entertainment focus would include.

The statements, made at the Allen & Company Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, come as Facebook continues to outpace MySpace in almost every relevant metric. The big question is how much would a facelift like the one proposed by Murdoch help the site? Continue reading

Power.com Countersues Facebook Over Data Portability

The Data Portability wars just got a little more interesting. Power.com, the service that lets users aggregate their social networks into a single hub, is countersuing Facebook for restricting users’ ability to export and move their own data. The company is claiming that Facebook is unlawfully withholding the data that users own (as stated in Facebook’s own ToS), and is stifling competition by refusing to allow third party services like Power.com to access the data, among other things. This should be fun.

It’s been over six months since we last heard about these two duking it out, so here’s a quick refresher: Power.com launched last August, offering users the ability to import their latest updates and user information from Facebook, MySpace, and a number of other social networks. It did so by tapping into the social networks’ APIs when available, but also by scraping user data when they couldn’t access it through other means ? a big no-no for most social networks, as we saw with the Scoble/Plaxo fiasco. It didn’t take long for Facebook to file suit against Power.com for scraping user data and storing user credentials (another violation of Facebook’s ToS). A week later we heard that the two parties might be close to a settlement, but apparently that didn’t work out ? the suit is still pending. Continue reading