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TV got you down? Welcome to the Web

by Mathew on September 13, 2007 · 2 comments

Techmeme has the news about Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz creating a show for MySpace and the Web — here’s a story I wrote for the Globe about it yesterday, after talking to MySpaceTV general manager Jeff Berman. Facebook may be getting all the headlines lately, but MySpace still has a few cards up its [...]

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Can MySpace change its spots?

by Mathew on June 29, 2007 · 1 comment

In an interview with the Financial Times, one of the founders of MySpace — Chris DeWolfe, the one who isn’t everyone’s friend as soon as they sign up (that’s his partner Tom Anderson) — hinted that the social network might open itself up further to developers, in the same way that Facebook has with its [...]

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Facebook is IKEA, MySpace is Las Vegas

by Mathew on June 25, 2007 · 2 comments

Danah Boyd, a sociologist and researcher in the U.S. who specializes in youth culture and online social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, has posted a draft version of a new paper she is writing on what might loosely be referred to as “class divisions” between the two popular social networking sites. Although she says [...]

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You have no privacy, etc., etc.

by Mathew on June 15, 2007 · 1 comment

Scott McNealy of Sun said it many years ago, and we keep proving that it’s true in small ways (and sometimes big ones) every day. The latest is the news that a young woman’s Facebook and/or MySpace comments might become evidence in a court case (goes to state of mind, your Honor). Why should this [...]

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Community is the hard part

by Mathew on May 15, 2007 · 5 comments

I know this is kind of a stretch, but stay with me while I try to pull a couple of threads together from things that are going on right now: We’ve got the launch of Truemors, the Digg-style rumour site that Guy Kawasaki set up — which seems to have been over-run with spam and [...]

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