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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...
have the moderators been replaced by a drinking bird that just clicks "Post"???
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
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?
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."
$580000000 / 22064129 profiles (lower bound set by the number of "friends" "tom" has)
= $26.287010921664 / profile
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.
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!
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
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...
According to Netcraft, the rank of MySpace.com is only 76.
Number 1 is -- of course -- Google. Slashdot has rank 587.
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.
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.
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
the average IQ has to be close to room temperature. wtf does FOX see in this crap?
Their average viewer.
how do they plan on making it back?
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."
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.
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....
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
Well at least now Tom can actually throw a halfway decent Myspace party.
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