Nate Elliott - TechCrunch: MySpace v Facebook Advertising Showdown

TechCrunch: MySpace v Facebook Advertising Showdown. << Can ISPs Claim Online Advertising Revenues? | Main · Nate Elliott | January 05, 2009, 01:21 PM. Posted on my personal blog: Link: MySpace v Facebook Advertising Showdown .....more...

iPhone, MySpace, Facebook Race To Micropayments In 2009

Application platforms, broadly defined, are here to stay. Facebook's platform, first launched in 2007, now has tens of thousands of applications. MySpace, which .....more...

Oh Laura, the Undercover MySpace Indie Act of the Day | undercover ...

Oh Laura, the Undercover MySpace Indie Act of the Day. by Paul Cashmere - January 5 2009. If you have heard the Saab ad then you have heard Oh Laura. Their song `Release Me` was the soundtrack for the ad. Oh Laura are from Stockholm, .....more...

MySpace is research place for busybody ‘Dr. Meg’ (AP) | Got Access ...

AP - Many teenagers cleaned up their MySpace profiles, deleting mentions of sex and booze and boosting privacy settings, if they got a single cautionary e-mail...more...

MySpace - Up, The International , Australia , Adventure

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Disinfo.com - Al Qaeda is Eyeing MySpace, Facebook, Friends ...

Great Britain's Security Service MI5 requested its British troops to remove personal details of themselves off popular social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Friends Reunited due to discovering that they were being monitored .....more...

Myspace Music: Why? - Hacking MySpace

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MySpace Slideshows, the Ideal Photo Sharing Application ...

As MySpace is a social networking site, most people enjoy sharing their lives and interests with the people who are in their network. Friends and family like to...more...

New Peachcake Songs on Myspace - News Article - AbsolutePunk.net

New Peachcake Songs on Myspace News. ... Peachcake has uploaded five new songs from their new album What year will you have the World?.. which will be released digitally on 1/13, and a music video on their Myspace. .....more...

Fan Pages For Mexican Drug Lords On MySpace | Guanabee

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Vodafone in music deal with MySpace

2008-06-30 09:33:38Z
Vodafone in music deal with MySpace Interactive Investor, UK - 15 minutes ago L) rose after the mobile operator announced a deal with News Corp's MySpace under which footage from Vodafone-sponsored music events will be made available

Fearne Cotton: Amy Winehouse used Haribo to boost her bust

2008-06-30 09:32:55Z
Fearne Cotton: Amy Winehouse used Haribo to boost her bust Now Magazine Online, UK - 15 minutes ago Fearne writes on her MySpace blog. ‘I’m not sure if she went out on stage like that but her bust certainly looked voluptuous.

Tributes to young stabbing victim

2008-06-30 09:31:54Z
Tributes to young stabbing victim Bath Chronicle, UK - 16 minutes ago Tributes to Ben have been left on different social networking sites including Facebook and MySpace. Ben is the 17th teenager to die as a result of violence

Danny finishes up his coverage of the 62nd Edinburgh International ...

2008-06-30 09:28:26Z
Den Of Geek, UK - 20 minutes ago Funny thing – at last year’s EIFF, there was a tent just down the road from the Filmhouse with Myspace Mash-Up written on the side, where me and Carl ended

Vodafone in music deal with MySpace

2008-06-30 09:28:01Z
Vodafone in music deal with MySpace Reuters India, India - 20 minutes ago LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in Vodafone rose after the UK mobile operator announced a deal with News Corp's MySpace under which footage from

Vodafone in music deal with MySpace

2008-06-30 09:25:38Z
Vodafone in music deal with MySpace Canada.com, Canada - 23 minutes ago LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in Vodafone rose after the UK mobile operator announced a deal with News Corp's MySpace under which footage from

Vodafone in music deal with MySpace

2008-06-30 09:23:19Z
Vodafone in music deal with MySpace stv.tv, UK - 25 minutes ago LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in Vodafone rose after the mobile operator announced a deal with News Corp's MySpace under which footage from Vodafone-sponsored

Tributes to young stabbing victim

2008-06-30 09:22:54Z
Tributes to young stabbing victim Skegness Standard, UK - 25 minutes ago Tributes to Ben have been left on different social networking sites including Facebook and MySpace. Ben is the 17th teenager to die as a result of violence

Tributes to young stabbing victim

2008-06-30 09:22:51Z
Tributes to young stabbing victim Express & Echo, UK - 25 minutes ago Tributes to Ben have been left on different social networking sites including Facebook and MySpace. Ben is the 17th teenager to die as a result of violence

Vodafone in music deal with MySpace

2008-06-30 09:20:20Z
Vodafone in music deal with MySpace Reuters - 28 minutes ago N: Quote, Profile, Research) MySpace under which footage from Vodafone-sponsored music events will be made available to users of the social networking

Talking Politics With Teens

It can be challenging to discuss politics across generations without someone melting down (usually you) or tuning out (usually them), but it's not impossible. Here are six traits of adults with the power to engage teens and inspire them to activism.

Be teachable. A conversation isn't about one person sharing knowledge and information with another. That's better known as a lecture (or so I've been told). Listen to teens, allowing them and others to inform your opinions.

Be honorable. It's okay to take issue with a candidate's positions, but disparaging his or her character is a definite turnoff to teens and twenty-somethings. To everyone, in fact.

Be flexible. Your candidate isn't Jesus. Teens appreciate hearing how we disagree with the person we support. Give them the grace to do the same, and don't take differing opinions personally. Endorsing your candidate's opponent doesn't mean a young person is repudiating your authority. Although it might.

Be controversial. Surprise and provoke them once in a while by saying something radical, starting with "I totally disagree with _____" or "I 100% agree that ____."

Be passionate. Caring deeply about an election is contagious. Young people who watch us thinking deeply and talking freely about our opinions will be more likely to do the same. And they'll be more likely to vote now and in the future if they remember us faithfully trekking to the ballot box during primaries and elections.

Be web-savvy. More and more, teens are influenced by the viral power of the web. Through sites like YouTube, MTV Think, MySpace, and Facebook, they're inviting each other to join causes and catching fire about the issues.

But web-surfing's not just for teens, especially not this election. Geeks are jamming the web with tools to inform all of us about the candidates and their positions. Five websites in particular can help even the most undecided voter make a choice.

Expert Voter: Provides a handy-dandy one page matrix of clips with the candidates sharing views on Iraq, immigration, energy, nuclear proliferation, healthcare, education, social security, taxes, and campaign reform.

Fact Check: Monitors the truth of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.

Match-O-Matic: Developed by ABC and USA Today, this interactive site quizzes you on your views to see how you match up on the hot issues with the candidates.

Ask Your Lawmaker: Users submit questions and vote on them, and then journalists track down lawmakers in Congress and on the campaign trail to get those questions answered.

Vote Smart: Volunteer citizens provide biographical information, voting records, issue positions, interest group ratings, public statements, and campaign finance information so you can find out who your candidates are really representing.

These are nonpartisan resources, and user-friendly for teens and adults alike. Why not send your teen a link or two to show off your cyber skills, as well as to demonstrate your desire to make informed decisions? Despite their technology addictions, teens are still open to adults who listen, care, can admit when they're wrong, and aren't afraid to take a stand.

(Originally published at Mitali Perkins' blog and reprinted with permission)

Social Sites And The Social Networking Revolution – What Is Going On?

Whether it’s myspace, facebook, bebo, or another site, the social revolution is in full swing and showing no signs of slowing.

Many would ask (particularly traditionalists): What has happened to us? Are we a bunch of hermits? People communicate more online than in person practically, nowadays. Face it, it’s true. Look at how people isolate in internet cafés and wi-fi hotspots! Is it antisocial?

Stop the press. Before we start name-calling, especially when there are so many of us using the internet to communicate, let’s examine what is really at play. The true issue could be reduced down to simple semantics. That is, how we define the term “social.”

If our understood definition of being social is restricted to meaning “to talk aloud,” “to interact in-person or verbally” then the answer is yes—communicating online and the social networking revolution could be dubbed antisocial activity. But if being social means interacting with people in general regardless of the means or medium used then social networking is not antisocial.

Is that semantic or is it a values issue? You decide. What can neither be changed nor stopped are the internet and its indelible effect on our lives and on our communications. It will not end. It is here to stay.

So the choice is either to resist this revolution (and go against the grain) or to accept it and enjoy it. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, right?

Now let’s discuss what is being accomplished by communicating in this new fashion, and whether it is effective. To effectively communicate, it would be fair to assume a couple of basic criteria are being met: what we truly want to say is being said and understood, and the feelings we wish to convey are being shared.

The fact is (and anyone who has written letters, emails, IM’s or messages on social networking sites can attest to this) that the printed word lacks something that the spoken word has: emotion.

You can use caps, italics, bold, underline, and so on, but text per se’ does not have actual inflection, tone, pitch, personality, soul, or body language. These are all aspects of in-person communication that we take for granted. But when these characteristics are missing, their absence is more than apparent.

So that begs the question: can the printed word convey emotion, and can it express our true feelings, meanings, and thoughts? The answer is debatable, and could be said to be yes and no.

Yes, when we communicate online, we are communicating, and (especially if the person knows you well, and knows your dialect and speech patterns) the other person can often imagine how you would have spoken those words out loud.

But no, the printed word cannot fully get across every bit of what we think and feel, most certainly not in the same way that verbal communication can.

So if that is the case, what do we do: stop emailing, IM’ing, and using social networking sites (myspace, facebook, bebo, etc.)? Obviously not.

We should, however, keep in mind as we continue into the future, the importance of that which is not digital. Not just analog things like tapes and old records, but verbal communication, nature, and intangibles like love. There are many things of value that cannot be digitized and cannot be delivered (at least not fully) via digital means.

The critics of the social revolution tell you to get outside, and although social networking is not bad, they are actually right about our need for balance and moderation. Get outside, get fresh air, talk to people, and take notice of your analog world. Digital is fun, but it is not the epitome of life.