Articles tagged "myspace"

Crazed by the Music

Will Facebook Conquer All Or Be Yesterday’s News?

by Jason Gross

[12.Oct.09] :. A colleague of mine who works in the non-profit world made this prediction: “it’s my belief that, within the next year or two, Facebook or some other social networking service will...

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Internet Feature

Music Scrobbling as a Panopticism of Taste

by Calum Marsh

[14.Sep.09] :. Among social networking sites, it's only Last.fm, only scrobbling -- which, once activated, operates entirely on its own, as an unconscious background function -- that channels the essence of Foucault's social panopticism.

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‘Lifecasters’ part of a growing group of social-networking junkies

by Melody McDonald [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[14.Jul.09] :. FORT WORTH, Texas — It’s just before noon, and Jeni Searcy is sitting in her room, talking to a friend about driving to the Apple Store to buy a new iPod. It’s a normal, fairly...

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Column: Backslash

Whither MySpace?

by Liz Colville

[18.May.09] :. Like good nightclub promoters, MySpace sought out the ladies, then created an experience that everyone enjoyed. But is the party coming to an end?

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Second MySpace tour metes out Justice

by Len Righi [The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (MCT)]

[18.Mar.08] :. Ask Xavier de Rosnay how he stays in creative rhythm with Gaspard Auge, his partner in white-hot French electronic dance act Justice, and he doesn’t miss a beat: “We dislike the same...

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Facebook widgets let money flow

by Eric Benderoff [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[12.Nov.07] :. CHICAGO—Rupert Murdoch looked at the future of social networking and he saw the competition. That’s why he told a conference of influential Web developers last month that MySpace, a unit...

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Obama campaign seizes control of supporter’s MySpace page

by Mike Dorning [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[3.May.07] :. WASHINGTON - The rapidly emerging tension between the unruly world of online politics and the highly controlled machinery of a presidential campaign was made vivid in a bitter struggle that erupted...

 

Popular networking site launches MySpace en Espanol

by Ryan Blitstein [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[24.Apr.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif. - MySpace has launched the beta version of MySpace en Espanol, a site aimed at America’s 42 million Latinos, the social networking site said Tuesday. MySpace, headquartered in...

 

Pop’s bratty new Brit takes a break

by Chris Riemenschneider [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[24.Apr.07] :. A month ago, Lily Allen showed some of the wear and tear from her yearlong pursuit of pop fame—a flirtation that blossomed into a love/hate relationship in her native England but remains...

 

Lily Allen: MySpace ... MySass ... MySongs ... MySuccess

by Rachel Leibrock [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[5.Apr.07] :. Everyone wants a piece of Lily Allen. Fans, show promoters, journalists. Especially journalists. “People try to read too much into (my songs)—all the journalists really,” says...