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SF Gate
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A Missouri woman was indicted Thursday for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide.
Lori Drew, 49, of suburban St. Louis, who allegedly helped create a MySpace ac..
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MSNBC
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Faced with legal demands from state attorneys general, MySpace.com said Monday it will release data on registered sex offenders it has identified and removed from the popular social networking Web site.
The company, citing federal privacy laws, initial..
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News 24
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Popular social-networking site MySpace will fail in a few years time, says self-confessed geek Jimmy Wales.
Wales, founder of the free web encyclopaedia Wikipedia, is currently in South Africa for a digital freedom tour.
MySpace, owned by News Corp..
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BusinessWeek
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The popular social network is showing third-party widget makers—and its users—who really decides what content gets added to pages
Late on Apr. 10, photo-sharing site Photobucket began receiving complaints from users that slide shows and videos they..
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Los Angeles Times
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REMEMBER Friendster?
The online social networking site was on track to become the Internet's next big phenomenon a few years ago until an upstart called MySpace eclipsed it in popularity and media attention. But being spurned by America's fickle teenag..
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Washington Post
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Teen Web sensation MySpace became so big so fast, News Corp. spent $580 million last year to buy it. Then Google Inc. struck a $900 million deal, primarily to advertise with it. But now Jackie Birnbaum and her fellow English classmates at Falls Church Hig..
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BBC News
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The world's most popular social networking site MySpace is to allow users to make their information available to other websites.
Its "data availability" project will let members share public profile information with Yahoo, Twitter, eBay and Photobucket..
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MSNBC
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You're sitting at home online and suddenly you get an irresistible urge. You absolutely have to belt out R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly" and share it with the world.
You now have that ability, thanks to the new MySpace Karaoke, to be launched Tuesday..
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MSNBC
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Being social, the purpose of the site, is crucial to developing an identity. Adolescents adjust their behavior — and images — to positive and negative interactions with their peers. Rosen writes in his book that social flops, which can crush kids’ s..
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BBC News
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Social networking site MySpace has signed a deal to put its shows on TV.
The deal means that MySpaceTV shows such as Quarterlife, Roommates and Special Delivery will soon air on screens outside the US.
The deal was signed with the Shine Group which..
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MSNBC
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A teenager involved in an Internet hoax blamed for a 13-year-old girl's suicide said Tuesday that the mother of a friend was more active in the ruse than she has admitted.
Ashley Grills told ABC's "Good Morning America" that Lori Drew called it "a good..
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BBC News
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MySpace will open its doors to software developers allowing them to create games and media-sharing applications for the popular social network.
MySpace will formally launch its "Developer Platform" next Tuesday but is already allowing people to sign up..
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BusinessWeek
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Users of the No. 1 social network show they're much more likely to engage with Presidential candidates on the Web than online adults overall
The MySpace generation is politically engaged, gets a lot of political information online, and is concerned abo..
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BusinessWeek
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There's much speculation that the social networking site will follow MySpace to the mainland, most likely through an acquisition, but Facebook denies the latest rumors
Over the past few months, investors have speculated about how Facebook would gain a..
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BBC News
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Ten internet users have landed film roles after they auditioned on the social networking site MySpace.
Readers of the website chose the movie's director and several of the actors after producers asked people to participate in the auditions.
The unkn..
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BBC News
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Social network website MySpace has joined forces with internet phone firm Skype to allow MySpace users to make calls to each other.
With the service, which starts from the end of November, the two firms say they are creating the world's largest online,..
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BBC News
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is considering selling social networking site MySpace to internet search company Yahoo, the Times newspaper has claimed.
The News Corp-owned newspaper said its parent firm was mulling offering some of its internet asse..
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MSNBC
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A Web site that enables its users to store photos and video for inclusion in MySpace profiles will become a part of the popular online hangout.
MySpace's parent, News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media, said Wednesday it would acquire Photobucket Inc., just..
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BBC News
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Social networking website MySpace has agreed to provide police with information about convicted US sex offenders, removed from its service.
The site's owner - News Corp - had previously been criticised for refusing a request from eight US states to div..
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FOX News
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Faced with legal demands from state attorneys general, MySpace.com said Monday it will release data on registered sex offenders it has identified and removed from the popular social networking Web site.
The company, citing federal privacy laws, initial..
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