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MySpace: Now With 47 Percent Fewer Employees
By David Knowles - AOL NewsThese are tough times for former social-networking giants. Mike Jones, the CEO of MySpace, announced Tuesday that his company was poised to terminate almost half of its employees in a major restructuring effort, CNET reported. "Today's tough, but necessary changes were taken in order to provide the company with a clear path for sustained growth and profitability," Jones said in a statement describing the forthcoming action. "These changes were purely driven by issues related to our legacy business, and in no way reflect the performance of the new product." The move comes after earlier ...
MySpace for Sale: Will News Corp. Cash In?
By J. Richard - AOL News(Nov. 30) -- Who wants to buy an ailing social networking site? Despite a relaunch earlier this year with a brand-new logo and a brand-new hookup with Facebook, News Corp. is apparently looking into the possibility of selling MySpace, the social networking site that has been overshadowed by Facebook in recent years. Word that News Corp. could soon put MySpace on the block came in a Reuters interview with company COO Chase Carey. "There are opportunities here to do 20 things [with MySpace], but that doesn't mean you're going to do any of the 20," Carey told Reuters. "If there's something ...
Facebook-MySpace Mashup: Like or Unlike?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 19) -- Facebook and MySpace, together at last. On Thursday, the two social media giants announced plans to "mashup," a new initiative allowing users to synchronize their Facebook "likes" to their MySpace pages. MySpace executives hope to increase traffic, provide better recommendations and improve the quality of advertising on the website. The collaboration, which by most accounts is being considered MySpace's formal surrender in a social media power struggle that Facebook won long ago, has the potential either to resuscitate MySpace from its slow demise or signal the end of the once ...
Facebook and MySpace Announce Mashup Project
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 18) -- How the mighty have fallen. In an exclusive Web announcement, MySpace, the former giant in social networking, introduced plans for a "mashup" with Facebook, the reigning king of connectivity. The new initiative allows MySpace to improve its service by utilizing data contained on Facebook's profile pages. MySpace users will be able to share information using the Facebook connect button, which will allow users to synchronize their Facebook "likes" and interests onto their MySpace pages. "The event is less of a partnership announcement and more of a formal surrender ceremony," ...
Facebook 'em, Danno: UK Cops Learning Social Media
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
LONDON (Nov. 6) -- Privacy campaigners often warn law-abiding citizens about the dangers of sharing too much personal information on social media sites. Lawbreakers might want to heed that caution too, because from the beginning of next year, the British police force is set to start teaching its trainee detectives how to fight crime with Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. The initiative is part of an 18-month training scheme that all junior officers must complete before attaining the rank of detective. Some critics may argue that it is nothing but a fashionable distraction, and that police should ...
MySpace Launches Massive Overhaul
By not in system - AOL News(Oct. 27) -- MySpace, the faltering social network, relaunched its service today as a multimedia platform. It's a radical departure from the format that made it the world's largest social network -- a distinction it has since given up to Facebook, which now claims to have over 500 million users. ...
Krystal Ball: 'Making Female Politicians Into Whores Is Nothing New'
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyAbout a year ago, the nice people at Aol.welcome screen, who let so many of the site's users know about interesting stories here at Politics Daily, wondered if, as an uppity blogger at our ladies' blog WomanUP, I might want to make an argument that (future Sen.) Scott Brown had a sexist advantage. Brown, then a political newcomer, had posed in his 20s for Cosmopolitan Magazine in re-revealed naked pictures, but he had suffered no political damage. Could a woman in a public position have survived the news of such brazen sexuality in her past? Even with his Y-chromosome advantage, I wrongly ...
Social Networking Goes Even More Global: Beats E-Mail, TV
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 11) -- Internet users in China, Latin America and the Middle East are engaged in more social networking that those in the U.S. and Japan, according to a new survey from British research firm TNS. The study surveyed nearly 50,000 Web users in 46 countries to determine what activities were most prevalent among Internet users in established Web-using countries and growing Web-using countries, referred to as "rapid growth markets." For example, Middle Eastern, Latin American and Chinese users, considered rapid growth markets, put in 5.2 weekly hours on social networking sites and four ...
A World Without Facebook, According to Twitter
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Sept. 23) -- When Facebook, the world's most popular social networking site, went down for several hours Wednesday and today, the Web collectively lost its mind. Fortunately, users on Twitter, the popular microblogging site, knew just what to do in its absence: make snarky comments. Facebook's troubles came at just about the worst possible time, too -- during what should have been an auspicious week for the company and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. On Wednesday, the news leaked that Zuckerberg would reveal a donation of $100 million to Newark, N.J.'s public school system on "The Oprah ...
Photos Show JetBlue Flight Attendant With Beer on Plane
By Ben Muessig - AOL News(Sept. 7) -- Former JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater didn't like his job, but he may have enjoyed the beverage service. Slater became a folk hero last month when he told off a passenger on the public address system, grabbed some beer, deployed an emergency chute and slid down it to the tarmac at New York's Kennedy International Airport. It was one of the most dramatic exits ever from a job. But apparently, it wasn't the first time he reached for some booze while on board. Kikster.com Former JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater became a service industry hero when he grabbed some beer ...
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