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Fox to Purchase Myspace

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the murdoch-immediately-propositioned-for-cyber dept.

jagger writes "News Corp announced on Monday that it has bought Intermix Media, owner of the popular MySpace.com social networking site, for $580 million. This follows an announcement by News Corp on Friday that it is creating an Internet division to hold the company's sports, news and entertainment sites." Update: 07/19 2:40EDT by C :Sorry about the copy errors, folks. They have been fixed.

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  1. What it SHOULD have said: by griboyedov · · Score: 4, Informative

    "News Corp announced on Monday that it was the new owner of the popular MySpace.com social networking site, paying $580 million for it. This follows an announcement by News Corp on Friday that it is creating an Internet division to hold the company's sports, news and entertainment sites."

  2. Re:That garbage worth 580 million? (it's not php) by Khyron · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dude, that's unfair to PHP developers everywhere...

    MySpace runs CFML, and always has. Specifically, today they runs their CFML application code on Blue Dragon, rather than ColdFusion for the increased scalability and compatibility with a .NET stack. Their leaders spoke at CFUnited a few weeks ago.

  3. TOS excerpt by fahrvergnugen · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hope you like giving away your hard-earned works for free to Fox: By posting Content on any public area of MySpace.com, you automatically grant as well as represent and warrant that you have the right to grant to MySpace.com, an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute such information and content to MySpace.com and that MySpace.com has the right to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.

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    Even Jesus hates listening to Creed.
  4. Re:Why haven't I heard of the 5th most popular sit by dsands1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'd say it's more than just a good looking spam webportal. I'd classify it as the "have all, be all, end all of internet hook-up sites". In summary:

    1. Broke up with my g/f of 4 years in Oct 2004
    2. Spent a couple months just feeling sorry for myself and not dating at all
    3. On the recommendation of a friend I set up a profile on myspace and started making "friends".
    4. By mid-January 2005 I'd been on probably 8-10 dates, quite a few of which led to... intimate relations.

    That's why people are going to the site.

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    "What is the answer?" (Silence) "In that case, what is the question?" --Gertrude Stein