Pages Tagged “MySpace”
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- Year of the Social Media Purge
Flickr and Tumblr have deleted content to fit new business models, MySpace lost 12 years of music, and Google+ is shutting down. Back up your accounts!
- Friends or Followers: Social Networking Terminology from LiveJournal to Facebook to Twitter
Since LiveJournal’s debut, social networks have expanded the meaning of ‘friend.’ What does it imply to have friends on Facebook and followers on Twitter?
- Opera hits MySpace
Following the trend of musicians setting up shop on MySpace, the social networking site now hosts a profile for the Opera Web browser. (Just kidding about the musicians part.) On a related note, I’ve found that on the rare occasions I’ve looked at MySpace pages, Opera tends to be more responsive than Firefox, which tends […]
- Web worm in MySpace
Worms of the future: someone on MySpace *ptui!* came up with an actual JavaScript worm using cross-site scripting exploits and XMLHTTPRequest. In 24 hours, the worm had forced 1 million users to add him to their friends lists. Personally, MySpace bugs the heck out of me because it seems to have a culture that encourages […]