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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.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4695495.stm
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...
Is it THAT hard to check your submission for broken code?
I never spellcheck and I freely admit it. Save your karma for more worthwhile "lol erorrs" replies
It will be great when they start broadcasting the sports they have rights to on the net. Sports is one of the biggest drivers in HDTV and would be a huge driver in Internet tv as well.
have the moderators been replaced by a drinking bird that just clicks "Post"???
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Proper link:
It has bought Intermix Media, owner of Myspace.com, the fifth most-viewed internet domain in the US and owner of other sites for $580m.
When I saw this on Google News this morning, I was shocked to know that there was a domain out there that I have never visited yet it's the fifth most popular out there.
Why would other people be going to such a large site but not me? When I checked it out this morning I realized that it's nothing more than a "good looking" spam webportal.
And will MySpace become fair and balanced ? :-)
Save a Life. Donate Blood. Please.
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.
What was Zonk high on when he hit "submit"?
1) Gasoline
2) Glue
3) Smack
4) Everything
5) Cowboy Neal
Slashdot admins amaze me everytime :)
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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PROFIT!
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if i'm not immortal, what's the point of living?
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Tom talks about the sale Here
Apparently he's one rich dude now!
If is isn't enough to publish dupes everyday, now BROKEN CODE made it onto the front page.
Are you sure that Zonk checked this?
It should read "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."
News Corp announced on Monday that it , owner of the popular MySpace.com social networking site, for $580 million.
CmdrTaco announced on Tuesday that he, founder of the popular Slashdot.org technology site, for the readability level.
Fair and Balanced hosting?
Wow, I can only guess what the post is actually trying to say, because the poster must have failed English 101. I mean, DAMN! You most likely have a word processor with a spell and grammar checker; might as well use the damn thing.
Are you telling me that PHP garbage is worth half a billion dollars? What industry am in? Where am I?
This is beyond the internet bubble of the 90s. Beyond the ancient California gold rush. This is like your 14 year old coming up with a highschool project, you coming in back and going, "Wow, honey this science experiment has to be worth several billion dollars, let's market it and sell it to google."
No wonder America is a trillion dollars in debt.
---- Berlin Brown http://www.newspiritcompany.
Well...I didn't know what to think of all this social networking when it first came out. I saw it as a "fun" little thing. Some catered to professionals, some to musicians, some to the people who just like to play on the web. I, along with many other people, simply saw it as a fad that wouldn't amount to anything. And now they're getting bought for loads of money? Are we going to have another dot com era?
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts...for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang
$580 million? Are they insane? Yes, they are. It's not worth it. It never will be worth it. Ever.
Blah, I submitted a much more verbose version of this to YRO last night. News Corp. owns FOX. They bought Intermix Media Inc.which owns MySpace.com
Quote from Yahoo!:
"The thing about MySpace is that it's a growing audience," said Jupiter Research analyst David Card. "Its users are pretty loyal. They get a lot of time spent on their pages. And the personal information they get from users is pretty reliable because they want to meet people. One would think this information would be pretty useful to advertisers." Yeah, good enough reason for me to remove my blogs and other information.
Fear the turtle farming ninja!
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.
This is my sig. There are many like it but this one is... Oops. Frank, I've got your sig again! Where's mine?
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.
"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."
Yes, Zonk was, indeed, out on a Bender last night. Also present were Fry and Leela, who declined to comment other than saying, "Zonk's just zis guy, you know?"
Edward@Tomato - /home/Edward/ man woman
man: no entry for woman in the manual.
"Qua!?"
click me FFS!!!
$580000000 / 22064129 profiles (lower bound set by the number of "friends" "tom" has)
= $26.287010921664 / profile
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When I checked it out this morning I realized that it's nothing more than a "good looking" spam webportal.
It's basically a blogging site, not a "spam webportal." If you like blogging sites, you've probably heard of myspace, and might even have a personal "space" there. If you ignore all things blogging, you probably have never heard of myspace, or don't care about it either way.
the keys are like right next to each other
He was (heavily) intoxicated, you insensitive clod!
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!
Then again, who knowns....
Dude, that's unfair to PHP developers everywhere...
.NET stack. Their leaders spoke at CFUnited a few weeks ago.
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
When I checked it out this morning I realized that it's nothing more than a "good looking" spam webportal.
Wrong, it's a horrible looking spam social networking site that has all the lousy bits of livejournal, friendster, makeoutclub, and amihotornot.com. It's all the rage among college freshmen.
-mkb
the one that didn't suck.
I want the old CNN back too; back before they tried to out-Fox Faux News.
Wah.
Start Running Better Polls
It's probably automatically corrected by IE so none of the windows using /. editors even know what these threads are talking about.
I've been working on an open source myspace style website called Appleseed for a while now. Screenshots are available on the website. I'm planning on releasing the code soon.
I've always been really annoyed with myspace. The coding errors, the bombardment of ads, that creepy "Tom" guy. But a lot of my friends were on it, so I made an account.
I'm hoping that a distributed project like Appleseed would do a bit to take the carpet out from under the rug of things like MySpace and Friendster, which are as much about community as Wal-Mart is.
I'm not very close to being done with Appleseed. I'm running low on time, and I'm hoping that releasing the code will encourage others to help out. I think I've gotten a decent foundation completed, and once I have the code cleaned up and at a point that I'm not embarrassed by it, I'll let it loose on the world.
Every time I get mod points, it asks me if I have read the moderator guidelines yet.
..
Perhaps there should be a link for editor guidelines
I mean, this is brutally bad editing, folks.
The sea changes color, but the sea does not change.
Maybe Fox will improve the site's layout. As it stands, Myspace is a very poorly designed website, especially compared to The Facebook.
Thank god! No more of that pesky decision process..."hmmmm, this website says homosexual behavior causes your teeth to fall out, makes you get bad gas mileage and condemns you to an eternity in hell, I wonder if I can trust it?"
At last! A 'Fair and Balanced' portal!
billy - hackers of the world unite! can you say 'foxse' ? i knew you could...
Here ya go buddy, Looks like that might come in handy one day!
Good job, Zonk!
rooooar
i've been a myspace user since it started and there's no spam involved. its just a good way of communicating with people you normally don't see. its also a nice way to keep track of bands as they tour if you become 'friends' with them. also nice if your a band to be able to send out bulletins to all the people your 'friends' with.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" -Hunter S. Thompson
Why would you call it bullshit just because you don't have a use for it?
Basically, it's a social networking site that's pretty easy to use. It also hosts music for smaller bands, and allow people to share photos of themselves. It lets normal people make web pages about themselves. Just think of all the people who want to make a web page, but don't know how.
Yeah, you may think that's lame, but why don't you try searching for some of your friends or old classmates by name there. You'll probably find at least one.
I'm sure there's plenty of fat guys wearing muu-muus browsing /. to save us should anything happen.
I never spellcheck and I freely admit it. Save your karma for more worthwhile "lol erorrs" replies
It's only been like half a day since you posted the last dupe or incomprehensible post!
Give the other editors a chance.
(Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!)
For anyone who is wondering what the anti-/.-"editor" comments are all about, this is what the original story looked like.
Pathetic.
You probably shouldn't click this.
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.
It grew a bit from there because someone decided that, hey, maybe people in general would like to have something like this.
The site feels really, really hacked together at times... as if there were phpNuke modules being tacked on every few months... but it stays online and serves its purpose and audience well.
-Rob
Biblical fiscal responsibility
I have to wonder why we waste so much time in the discussion threads telling the editors how poorly they do their jobs. It's obvious that they don't even pay much attention to the actual submitted articles. Do you think they actually read the discussions?
According to Netcraft, the rank of MySpace.com is only 76.
Number 1 is -- of course -- Google. Slashdot has rank 587.
Touche! I stand corrected.
I just wasted your mod points! HA!
The rates on Fox are about to go up.
The audience for this site may sound like an idea demographic, but not for paying for a site.
MSBPodcast.com The opinions expressed here are my own. If you don't like 'em... Think up your own stuff.
Actually, it's not a big typo. Only the very first character from the post is missing, a "<" - which of course broke the hyperlink. Probably someone copied this blurb from somewhere else and pasted it into the submission form, not using the Preview button. Then the editors didn't check the submission before allowing it go to the front page.
Being that this slashdot, I find that an entirely plausible scenario.
I had never heard of MySpace until, by coincidence, I read this story about the site yesterday. To hear that it was sold for millions of dollars surprised me, to say the least. I went to check it out yesterday and, while I didn't spend much time with it, it seemed there wasn't anything that could be done without signing up for a profile first! It hurts us, precious!
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I'd list 'em here, but they'd no doubt be crippled by /. almost immediately. I have the domain names, but just some old PCs as servers for 'em...you'll have to use your own iron.
End the FUD
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.
What about slashdot pisses you off the most?
1. 404
2. Articles are frequent dupes
3. Roland Piquepaille advertisements
4. Broken Code (on the main page)
5. You can't edit your comments
6. Poor spelling/grammar (in articles)
7. The moderation system
8. Sluggish server responses (being slashdotted)
9. Flamebait articles designed to start holy wars
10. Stories no one cares about.
for a site bombarded with "win a free xxxx" ads and populated (mostly) by the usual losers looking for a free hook-up (they're also the ones who click on those ads), how is this worth 580 mil? really, do some browsing on myspace.com - the average IQ has to be close to room temperature. wtf does FOX see in this crap?
MySpace apparently has a strong community for Indie music bands, and has a 'stickiness' quotient far higher than that of Friendster or other social networking sites. BW Link
Does anyone else believe that editors should be forced to click a "Preview" button to see how the actual topic will be displayed before publishing it to the public? It does say "(Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!)"
(Yes, I'm in a band, and no, I'm not going to whore it here.)
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.
Even Jesus hates listening to Creed.
since when do kids like the news more than pictures of their friends?
come on. its like hot or not but with sluttier girls.
i know that's all i used it for, it let me catch up with old high school peeps.
They have been fixed. :)
"CmdrTaco announced on Tuesday that he, founder of the popular Slashdot.org technology site, doesn't give a shit for the readability level."
FTA:
"it has agreed to acquire Intermix Media Inc., which owns more than 30 e-commerce and media websites"
So MySpace is only one of 30 e-commerce sites owned by the acquired company. It's not reasonable to assume that MySpace is worth $580 million by itself.
There are 2 kinds of people in this world. Those that can keep their train of thought,
Hopefully MySpace won't turn into MyRepublicanNeoConSpace. However it will be great if the FOX people can get rid of the %&$%^$ Jamster ads from the site. I hate ads that make noise.
Hopefully someone will convince people how stupid Fox is,
Rupert Murdock is *far* from stupid, and Fox isn't either. That's what makes them dangerous. They achieve their ultra-right propaganda by cunning punditry, subtle underdogging of (what they consider) "leftists", fast-paced bullshitting and a heavy usage of Goebbels motto: "repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth" (the "fair and balanced" crap).
People who don't know better believe Fox. The same people who think Saddam Hussein somehow was involved in 9/11. That's what makes them dangerous. If they were stupid, it'd be easy to expose them.
and get people to stop using MySpace. Oh, can you imagine it? A world without MySpace?
Uuh, I think the question on many people's minds is: wtf is MySpace? 'nuff said.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Here's a random one that came up: http://www.myspace.com/mentalescape/
Beware of really bad MIDI beats.
If you've never taken a second to look at some of this stuff on MySpace, its just a bunch of people taking pics of themselves and waiting for compliments.
1. Add a list of horrible metalcore/emo-pseudo-teen-angst music (music played by 30 year olds, with lyrics written by 7th grade girls that just got off a SERIOUSLY DEEP 3 day relationship OMG)
2. Drop the names of a few obscure movies and old TV shows you were too young for
3. Guys- wear some girls jeans, and even if your shooting star tatoo is still red take a pic immediately as its added points!
4. Girls- wear your makeup like you're 4 years old and just broke into mommy's purse
...much more can be added I know.
That a digital camera company would buy it. Being all these kids got digital camera's for chrismas for no reason other than to take pictures of themselves half-clothed so the can get more "friends" on their list... What else are they supposed to do with these things? They're all pseduo-photographer-journalist-peotry-emo kids... oh well. at least some are hot.
Now all Rupert needs to do is to figure out how to cut out the left side of the space.
That is all.
Tom Confirmed this via MySpace Message. It's pending.
All of the above?
/. in ten points!
Well, number five ain't that bad.
Other than that, I'd like to congratulate you on summing up
You forgot one point though:
11. Posts complaining about slashdot automatically getting modded down.
9. CowboyNeal
Nooooooo! this can't be! I just figured out how to put Beyonces' "crazy in love" video on my page! Noooo!
how do they plan on making it back?
This really scares me why the media arm of the Whitehouse is interested in a "Social Networking" blogging website.
01/20/09
This is proof that your site doesn't have to be pretty to be profitable.
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.
"What is the answer?" (Silence) "In that case, what is the question?" --Gertrude Stein
i agree with you. I keep in touch with most of my friends on it. It's kind of replaced most of my personal email. I've seen some really great bands off of it, hooked up off of it, threw some great parties, and gotten to know some really great people too. I run a book club off it too.
I originally got on it, because friendster was really buggy at the time, and my ex on the time was on it.
it's hilarious too in that I'll go to the bar, and see people I've seen on myspace, and we'll talk about it like it's some guilty pleasure. it's pretty funny when a girl you've never met tells you that they know you when they only know you from myspace.
but yeah, hopefully Fox recognizes that the brand is stronger than fox, and doesn't try to insert some of their coporate DNA into it.
(I'm 27 in case you were wondering )
It's the most popular site for older guys trying to get younger high school girls.
Maybe you haven't heard about this "5th most popular internet domain in the US" because it's not actually in 5th place (no surprise there!).
Netcraft rates www.myspace.com at 76th worldwide:
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=www.m
below more popular sites like Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, PayPal, CNN, MSN,
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/stats/topsites?s=DA28
jc
"I'd much rather be mistaken as a lesbian by a bigot than be mistaken as a bigot by a lesbian."
It failed.
Best Buy can have you arrested
The sentence is correct, it just wasn't finished:
News Corp announced on Monday that it , owner of the popular MySpace.com social networking site, for $580 million purchased 5,800,000 $100 coupons for spyware removal tools for all of its employees, their extended families and friends, when the improbability drive from the Heart of Gold wizzed by News Corp's Think Tank, ripping a hole in the space time continuum of the CEO's brain.
It was reported that hilarity ensued.
The cool part of the internet is when you buy X million profiles, there are still an infinite number left to buy - you own 0%. They are not a scare resource. I assume this will be a new addition to Fox Kids, since myspace is mostly K-12.
This fad too shall pass, remember when dialup subscribers were worth something? MySpace is so last year, now it's all about the podcast.
Podcast: n, 1. The voice of the person who cannot understand why noone cared about their webpage about their cat, the blog about their cat, or the social network of cat lovers. 2. the precursor to Vodcast - the daily video on demand... about peoples cats.
- Adam L. Beberg - The Cosm Project - http://www.mithral.com/
I hadn't heard of the site yet, either, but from your description, it sounds very much like Orkut, and while I wouldn't go as far as the grandparent poster and describe that as a spam webportal, it isn't exactly useful, either.
Ultimately, it probably fits right in with sports news sites, online poker sites and the like - sites that are popular because they appeal to the masses, but that the intelligentsia is much less likely to visit.
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
Because you're not hip and "with it".
Why is 90% of the email I get spam? :) Same reason really - most people are stupid. Admittedly, that's a somewhat misanthropic point of view, but it seems to be true more often than not...
I'm pretty sure that Yahoo and Google (in whatever order) are #1 and 2, but what's #3, 4 and 5? I'm not sure that it's really something that you'd "just know" as a web surfer - there simply are too many sites with lots of visitors.
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
now all the people making fun of it are going to get accounts. Way to let the secret out. :-)
Not to mention the people who absolutely can't live without posting music videos to their site, or in comments of other people's profiles...
Thank god for Greasemonkey, I can't visit it without arming myself with the MySpace Tag Remover script.
http://www.kenmickles.com/greasemonkey - free plug for you, dude!
[DISCLAIMER: This post is a work of satire and should not be misconstrued as a holy text upon which to base a religion.]
because they want to make sure the 2020 republican presidential candidate wont have his myspace profile to come back and bite him in the ass.
The Doormat
If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
Uhh, I'm not so sure that anyone who includes a "Furry Portal" in their profile should insinuate that they are part of an "intelligensia"....
Evil , manipulative , monopolistic tendencies ,total lack of ethics and extremely biased
Stupid though , defiantly not
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
Why would other people be going to such a large site but not me? When I checked it out this morning I realized that it's nothing more than a "good looking" spam webportal.
Myspacers invite their friends, people they think are cool, so I wouldn't expect it to catch on with Slashdot. I'm actually a little saddened that it got exposure on here, which will inevitably lead to more geekiness one-up-manship and more teenage immaturity.
Myspace was best when it had 3 million members almost a year ago. Trendy, savvy, without being overly geeky. Now that it has 20+ million members, everyone and their mother has a myspace, losers and all.
And now an influx of slashdot geeks....
All myspaces must now be pro-Bush and Arab-hating, or else they will be pulled.
mods +5 funny!
:-D
hahaha! thats probably the best reply ever to a discussion of communism! you just made my day.
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
but yeah, hopefully Fox recognizes that the brand is stronger than fox, and doesn't try to insert some of their coporate DNA into it.
"Look for your friends, but do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands."
So, does this make it "TheirSpace" ? (ducks)
StupidChildren...the reason jesus is crying
MySpace will suffer the same fate as most of Fox's TV shows -- cancellation. I can see it now... "ZOMG WHAT WILL I DO NOW THAT MYSPACE HAS BEEN CANCELLED!?!!!?1"
Har...
1) Buy company hosting the largest social networking site on the internet.
2) Use its user base to fuel your next big reality show.
3) We have to suffer through another crappy FOX reality show and of course (sadly) Profit!!!
Information: "I want to be anthropomorphized"
Ditto. My band has a page there and we've set up numerous shows with other bands coming through town strictly through myspace. I don't even bother updating our regular website anymore because the myspace site does everything we need it to.. for now.
If you were me, you'd be good lookin'. - six string samurai
Congratulations, Fox! You are now the owners of the largest softcore kiddy-porn site on the Internet!
They don't own it, the copyright holders still do.
It's just that the copyright holders can't prevent them from doing anything at all with their works, including selling them on CDs (or as digital downloads) it would seem.
I design user interfaces for a free network management application,
hmmm this will go well with Hannidate!!! where like minded right wing rednecks kind find that special one!
No. What they have is an irrevocable license to use and sublicense the work. They don't own it, but they have all the same rights as the author to profit from it.
This just in, FoxSpace (Formerly MySpace) declares any anti-bush posts or blogs to be hereby banned. Also, no gays allowed. The "Bi" and "Gay" catagories under sexual attraction will be removed at the soonest convenience. (Please note that this is in now way fact, just a little joke and play on foxnews)
~~Altephfour Chat operator for G4TV
Intermix, Inc., the company that owns MySpace.com, is the very same company sued by NYS Attorney General for spyware violations. They also have a LONG history of spamming the universe.
Fox is just getting more crappy by the day.
In Soviet Russia, I ruled you
Getting out of your bedroom and going to meet real people in person. Not over the internet! I had a myspace account for a little while. I deleted it about 2 months ago in disgust of how Tom kept adding himself back to my friends list!
The posts are very entertaining. They're written by the collective lovechild of AOL and GameFAQs users.
Maybe they'll finally get the know-how to fix the fucking thing.
That site has the shittiest coding I've ever seen... the thing's down at least once a day (not counting maintenance).
1/10 page views will get you a "Sorry! An error has occurred."
We have secretly replaced these Slashdot mods' sense of humor with a rusty nail. Let's see if they notice!!
Exactly. Hence "nonexclusive". You retain the copyright and can still license the work to others; but MySpace has a license to distribute your work too. This is kind of a no-brainer: you can't sue MySpace for broadcasting on the web the stuff you've posted to their site. That's the whole point. It does, however, point out the irony of the name: "MySpace". It's not your space, it's theirs: they pay for it, they put ads on it, and they can do what they want with it. Want to retain control over your personal profile? It's called a "personal web page" hosted on a server you pay for yourself.
Probably because you have no friends. And that you are over the age of 12.
I can vouch for this man's story, as basically give a big ditto, on all the points he listed. All of this happened with me, too. It's seriously worth it.
Th
simply put, it's computers injected into our sex lives. search engines at use on uploaded personality samples to rapidly get to people we think we would find interesting. it's about time we have the google of our dating lives. bars are getting obsolete
So this morning, after reading this post, I made a bulletin on myspace letting all my "friends" know what had happened as far as the sale of myspace was concerned. During the course of the day several friends reposted it to all of their friends in the form of myspace bulletins. Well, I come home this evening and log... guess what? All of our bulletins have been deleted and there's a nice note from Tom up top stating: "don't worry myspace isn't going to change or shut down, and no one's profiles are going to get deleted. we are not charging and i'm not leaving myspace... things are going good !"
Well isn't that nice. Great way to inspire confidence by censoring/del0rting our posts. =/
"What is the answer?" (Silence) "In that case, what is the question?" --Gertrude Stein
The same people who think Saddam Hussein somehow was involved in 9/11.
Since when is Foxnews widly watched by Democrates?
If you go read the full reports(you will need an upper end libary or work in place that gets them) of the companies ask this question the majority of the people think this was the case voted for Kerry or classified themselves as democrates or independants(possibility of not voting). Thoses that classified themselves as Republicans who voted for Bush and believed this was a very small percent.
Now it gets really interesting is when you start comparing the amount with the time line. The number of people who said this was the case increased while the movie "fahrenheit 9/11" was gaining in popularity and hit a near record high after the DVD had been released. It has been dropping since then and as of March was back to the lows.
Wow, that _is_ severely conspiracy theory.
I doubt just because News Corp. (not Fox News, you shmuck) wants to own a highly successful site that has millions of people looking at it per day so they can plaster 20th Century Fox (the movie studio) and Fox (the tv network) ads all over it that they'll seriously start claiming they own everything that every user posts on the site. That's quite simply ludicris and they'd be violating many laws when they did it. The nature of that crime makes it pretty easy to hold them responsible for. So take off your tin-foil hat please.
I just wasted your mod points! HA!