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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.
have the moderators been replaced by a drinking bird that just clicks "Post"???
And will MySpace become fair and balanced ? :-)
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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.
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2) Glue
3) Smack
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5) Cowboy Neal
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"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
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
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.
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 )