Engineers at Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have joined the protests against Google's search integration of Google+ results, crafting a browser add-on called "Don't Be Evil" that adds a far broader range of social into search. The tool, distributed at a site called Focus on the User, argues that rather than just pull Google+ profiles and topics into the search engine, Google would better serve actual users by integrating far more social networks: Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr and more. Rather than see exactly what Google wants you to see through its forced Google+ promotion, you can be shown what the company's pure algorithm believes is relevant.
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‘MySpace’ Stories
Murdoch on MySpace: “We screwed up in every way possible”
Outspoken News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has given a blunt summary of the MySpace debacle, describing the company's attempt at the social networking market as having "screwed up in every way possible." Murdoch took to Twitter to answer "many questions and jokes" about MySpace, which News Corp. acquired back in 2005 for $580m. "[We] learned lost of valuable expensive lessons" the exec admitted.
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Myspace Teams Up With Panasonic to Launch MySpace TV
Panasonic brought out the big guns at the Consumer Electronics Show with Justin Timberlake in an attempt to resuscitate the suffering social networking website, Myspace. At last year's E3, Panasonic introduced their new line of TVs that had Netflix and Amazon VOD access, and Facebook support. The company is striving to continue connecting consumers to social media through their TV. To do this, Panasonic and Myspace have collaborated to make Myspace TV.
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Here’s why Google+ shouldn’t work, but does, for now
Just a few months ago, inside the summer of 2011, we saw the birth of Google’s own utterly mystifying social networking site Google+, complete with an interface that resembled not one, but all of the rest of the social media sites combined – what we’ve seen since are hundreds of combatant posts yelling at one another about how Google+ is either growing rapidly or suddenly petering out. There are numbers that can prove both if you don’t pay attention to the other, that much is true. What I want to tell you today is why I think what’s GOING to happen almost certainly WILL.
Social networking overall surges, but Google+ could be slumping
Over half of all online adults in the US now use at least one form of social network, new research suggests, the first time all age segments have crossed the fifty-percent milestone. 65-percent of users have a Facebook or LinkedIn account, or one with another social networking site, the Pew Research Center claims, with young women (18-29) described as "power users" with 89-percent surveyed using the sites, and 69-percent doing so daily. However, the statistics come as one of the poster children for fast-growing social networking, Google+, seemingly experiences a slump in user interest.
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Facebook SPAM King Compromises 500,000 Accounts
A fellow by the name of Sanford Wallace, otherwise known as one of the "Spam Kings", has been charged with 11 federal criminal counts, these counts related to 27 MILLION unsolicited SPAM messages sent via Facebook servers. FBI officials note that Wallace received "substantial revenue" for this so-called "scheme" in which 500,000 Facebook users accounts were compromised. As of August 7th, 2011, Wallace has turned himself into authorities, has pled not guilty, and is free on a $100,000 bond while he faces more than 40 years in prison for his alleged crimes. Lulzsec and Anonymous have been unavailable for comment.*
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MySpace founder warns Google+ to fear the filter
MySpace founder and former president of the social network, Tom Anderson, has cautioned Google against relying too greatly on algorithmic filtering technologies in Google+, suggesting that over-reliance on such systems has left Facebook struggling to compete. In attempting to manage the Google+ “signal to noise” ratio, Anderson writes in a TechCrunch editorial, the search giant could inadvertently kill off the copious interaction that has marked the initial days of the new social network.
SlashGear Weekly Roundup Video – July 3, 2011
Happy July 4th weekend to everyone in the U.S. But there’s more to celebrate than Independence Day, SlashGear is having our first Tabletpalooza Giveaway as well as sending out invitations for the new Google+ social platform. Google+ was certainly big news this week and we’ll be going over that and more in our SlashGear Weekly Roundup video after the cut
Justin Timberlake To Bring MySpace Back?
The death of MySpace seemed near as News Corp. was rumored to either offload the platform or shut it down completely before this Thursday---its fiscal year end---to get the money losing property off its books. Thankfully, today a deal was reached to sell the property to Specific Media for $35 million, a disappointing number compared to the $100 million target and the original $600 million purchase price back in 2005. But, nonetheless, there is new hope today for MySpace, as it transitions to new hands and adds a celebrity stakeholder.
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MySpace Sold For $35 Million To Specific Media
It's official. According to an exclusive through AllThingsDigital, the once popular but now ailing social network, MySpace, has been sold. Yesterday, news came that News Corp. was looking to close a deal before the end of this week with low bids coming in between $20 to $30 million. It seems they managed to up the final sale price to $35 million with Specific Media being the "lucky" winner.
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MySpace Heads To The Bargain Bin, Low $20-30M Bids
Ever since Facebook began picking up steam, MySpace steadily shrunk in popularity. Almost 50 percent of the MySpace staff have recently been laid off and now the site is up for sale. News Corp purchased MySpace back in 2005 for a whopping $600 million, but the latest bids for the site are coming in between only $20 to $30 million.
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MySpace job cuts tipped for Tuesday; up to 60% layoffs
MySpace is expected to axe 550 to 600 staff tomorrow, as part of sweeping cuts intended to help return the ailing social network to profitability. First rumored last month, according to AllThingsD the cuts will see up to 60-percent of MySpace's workforce shed, supposedly including a significant number of international employees.
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