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Hollywood’s Recession Is Over, Declares Murdoch
5:35AM Richard Rushfield | Just like Murdoch to go and ruin everything for everyone. Just when the studios had a great excuse with this recession thing to slash salaries and fire everyone in sight, along comes Rupert singing “Happy Days are Here Again.” More »
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MySpace’s Future: Online Slum For Depression Refugees
6:18AM Ryan Tate | It’s hard to imagine much of a future for MySpace. Which is probably why it took a science-fiction author to do so: Bruce Sterling says the flagging social network is an ideal shantytown for the nihilistic unemployed. Compelling! More »
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The Secret Shame Of Social Networking: Scammers
4:42AM Ryan Tate | Silicon Valley pundits like to talk about social media as a potential geyser of cash. What they leave out is that one of the only ways social networks like Facebook, MySpace have done that is joining league with online scammers. More »
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Pretty Boy MySpace CEO Has Dumb Surrender Plan
8:54AM Ryan Tate | MySpace now says it is no longer competing with Facebook, the rival social network with far more users. No, now MySpace will focus on the niche of music and digital entertainment. And compete with Apple and Google. More »
Online
MySpace Is For “Stalking”, Says Owner Of MySpace
3:27AM Ryan Tate | Media mogul and grumpy old man Rupert Murdoch has developed a “personal antipathy to the Internet”, biographer Michael Wolff writes. Murdoch even thinks MySpace, which he himself paid $US580 million for, is kind of a criminal piece of garbage: More »
Online
Legal Briefs Are Courtney Love’s Method Of Choice For Defamation
3:06AM Brian Moylan | The grunge princess has long terrorised the world and the English language with her ramblings on MySpace and Twitter. She’s the first celeb sued for what she said on Twitter, but now the fight is getting personal—and ugly! More »
Online
How A ‘Made’ Startup Was Clipped
3:33AM Ryan Tate | Two years ago, music service iLike appeared to be set: Its CEO said it was “made”, its investor mused it could be a “billion-dollar winner” and the press was enthralled. Now the poster child is a cautionary tale. More »
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Facebook Does Not Want To Get You Laid
5:23AM Ryan Tate | Facebook has long been the wet blanket of social networks. Its latest bucket of cold water: No more searching for people by relationship status. Because then you might conceivably get laid, and we can’t have that. More »
Big Screen
Why MySpace Is Happy To Be Insulted By Adam Sandler
3:02AM Ryan Tate | Social networking is for lonely, psychotic shut-ins. Or at least that’s the upshot of the jokes in the attached clip from Adam Sandler vehicle Funny People. And still MySpace apparently cooperated with the filmmakers; its co-founder and logo appear. More »
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