Tag: myspace
MySpace to test ad-funded free music downloads
Hey, everyone! Guess what? MySpace is still going!
Its latest scheme to stop becoming a desolate wasteland as everyone switches to Facebook is this – free music. Free proper downloads, not just the low quality streaming business it’s made its own over the last few years.
The idea uses the Holy Grail of recent music…
Online-only MySpace TV show 'Quarterlife' transfers to proper telly
Online show Quarterlife has been signed up by US network NBC, in a deal to show the thing on TVs worldwide and to flog those lucrative DVD box sets.
Only it’s not quite the fantastical dreams-coming-true story as it seems. The “online show” was created by a couple of guys called Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, who just so happen…
Courtney Love on a Radiohead-style digital release, forgets previous album sold 250,000 copies
Courtney Love still makes music?! You mean, she has time in her schedule amongst flogging Kurt’s clothes and organising biopics about him?! That woman never ceases to amaze, as according to her incoherent ramblings on her MySpace account, she wants to go down the Radiohead route, by possibly releasing her music exclusively online.
Those with graduate degrees in decoding insane, possibly drug-related musings, appearing to be written by a 14-year old English-language hating morons can click here to read the full extent…
Clothe yourself silly with this web 2.0 social-networking t-shirt
We’ve seen plenty of geek t-shirts grace the virtual pages of Tech Digest before, but I don’t think none of them match the geek cred exuded by this web 2.0 effort. No, not even the flashing Wi-Fi reception top.
As your beady eyeballs can see, the shirt features a list of all the most popular social networking sites – all 79 of them. Wearers can use a marker pen to tick off all the sites they belong to, then…
Zazzle opening up massive MySpace money making potential
Hey, everyone! Guess what? MySpace is still going!
Even though millions of once-loved accounts now lie desolate and unused since the great Facebook switchover started, merchandising company Zazzle has decided to team up with 2005’s most popular social network for a spot of cross-promotional magic…
MySpace recruits 10 users to star in 'Faintheart' film with Tim Healy
Many people use social-networking sites such as MySpace or YouTube in the hopes they’ll launch their porn acting careers, but as you know, most fail (thank goodness).
However, ten lucky internet users still stuck in 2004 who persist at using MySpace are rubbing their hands together…
MySpace announces MySpace Games casual gaming service
MySpace has revealed its next big push: into casual online games. The social network is launching MySpace Games early next year, in partnership with gaming firm Oberon Media.
It’ll let you play hundreds of web games, including multiplayer titles, while also sharing them via your MySpace profile. The games will all be free of charge, and will tie into MySpace, for example letting you play against your friends. In-game chat will also feature heavily. MySpace and Oberon are promising “further community initiatives” in early 2008 too.
O2 offering (limited) free access to MySpace mobile site
O2 has announced that it won’t be levying data charges on its customers for accessing MySpace’s mobile site during November and December. After that, they’ll pay the normal off-portal data charges according to their tariff, but unlike on Vodafone, they won’t have to pay a monthly subscription for access to the site itself.
Top 20 ways to embarrass yourself on Bebo, Facebook or MySpace
It’s a hard life being a British tennis player. You’re constantly being compared unflatteringly to Tim Henman, you have to schlep around the world’s minor tournaments before going out in the first round at Wimbledon, and worst of all, you can’t boast about your burger and cider habits on Bebo without getting suspended by the Lawn Tennis Association. Harumph.
However, it’s not just tennis pros who are getting caught out. Social networks are meant to bring us closer together – which they do – but they’re also a minefield of potential shame and embarrassment. Here’s 20 more ways you can come a cropper – you get a prize if you’ve done more than ten of ’em.
1. Get dropped by your hard-partying kebab-munching friends when they read your Bebo profile and realise you’re really a teetotal fitness-focused tennis professional.
2. Reveal yourself as a two-faced hypocrite by praising both pirates AND ninjas on your Facebook profile. For shame.
Get yerself your very own sound with Soundbadge, and rejoice in your uniqueness
With this opening statement on Soundbadge’s home page, ‘You’ve got a MySpace profile, an Open ID, a Gravatar, tons of indie badges. Anything missing? Yep: Your sound badge’, you can tell right away your indie-cred will rocket. You won’t even need to deliberately dirty your new Converse trainers anymore!
It takes about two minutes to create a Soundbadge, by choosing between ‘classic hip hop’, ‘latest electro’, or ‘good old country’. Once that’s out of the way, answer a few quick questions about your personality…
