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Fox to Purchase Myspace
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.
Do you even READ these articles?
I typically don't have anything wrong with Fox, but to allow them access to my personal information? I don't think so...
What the hell is it that you guys are responsible for, anyway? Obviously you don't check for dupes, spelling, grammar, relevance of links, and now, you don't even check to see whether or not the blurb even makes sense and if the links therein are functional! It's like watching the Roman Empire of tech/OSS sites crash and burn...
A blog like any other.
jagger writes "a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4695495. stm">News Corp announced on Monday that it , 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."
/. editor has got be the easiest gig on the web. Just copy, paste, post, and...
How do bad links get posted on the main page like this? Isn't the subscriber preview feature supposed to help weed out these things?
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There are so many things to say here. I'll start with
This sentence no verb.
But that's okay, I think it was missing an object too.
This entire story is going to be nothing but well-deserved bashing of Slashdot editors.
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OMG! I don't know about something. How is this possible? I am garcia! Knower of all there is to be knowed.
Why would a site that's nothing but bullshit be the 5th most viewed site on the web? I would think that as a regular Internet surfer I would be able to easily rattle the top 5 sites off w/o hestitation.
If anything, I wasn't bragging, I was surprised that some apparently crappy site was so popular.
Thanks for the troll though.
Perhaps you've not heard of the "Social Networking" catagory?
The point is you have a large site with thousands and thousands of members and then have those members "mingle" with each other and prominately display their connections.
Yes, it is a bit high school.. but the reason why it's the fifth most popular site: because it's huge among high schoolers.
But it does serve it's purpose I guess. Now, if only they could a) afford decent programmers and b) stop loading the site up with flash animations that suck my cpu dry.
I just wasted your mod points! HA!
Maybe, just maybe it's not 'nothing but bullshit'? Perhaps there are sites out there that offer services that you don't like. Imagine that.
You would think that Google, Yahoo, MSN, CNN, and any other major news site would attract a TON more traffic than myspace.com.
I would also think that you would somehow be linked there frequently by friends, search engines, or news stories. It surprises me that as the 5th most viewed site on the web I have never had Google tell me to go there when searching for "foo".
It has nothing to do w/me liking the site or not.
how do they plan on making it back?
It's the most popular site for older guys trying to get younger high school girls.
www.slashdot.org is 587.
/. would rank if both were combined.
slashdot.org is 35.
Wonder where
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