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MySpace

MySpace, which launched in January of 2004, is one of the world’s leading social portals. MySpace empowers its global community to experience the Internet through a social lens by integrating personal profiles, photo sharing, professional and viral videos, blogs, mobile, instant messaging, and the world’s largest music community. MySpace is among the highest trafficked websites in the United States and includes an international network of more than 30 local community sites throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Fox Interactive Media is a division of News Corporation.

Rupert Murdoch-helmed News Corp. acquired MySpace in June 2005 under its interactive business unit Fox Interactive Media based out of Los Angeles.

Milestones

• 10/22/08 — MySpace partners with IODA, a digital distribution company for Independent music
• 9/11/08 — MySpace Announces Global Partnership with RIM
• 6/30/08 — Vodafone teams up with MySpace to Create Web 2.0 Music platform
• 5/28/08 — MySpace Uses Google Gears To Power Messaging

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MySpace Mobile App

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The new mobile app, available on the iPhone, allows users to keep in touch with their MySpace account through their mobile device.

Above: MySpace Mobile App Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 7/10/08

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MySpaceID

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Launch Date

June 26, 2008

MySpaceID is MySpace’s data portability standards project. The project essentially makes key user data, including (1) Publicly available basic profile information, (2) MySpace photos, (3) MySpace videos, and (4) friend networks, available to partners via their (previousy internal) RESTful API, along with user authentication via OAuth.

The key goal is to allow users to maintain key personal data at sites like MySpace and not have it be locked up in an island. Previously users could turn much of this data into widgets and add them to third party sites. But that doesn’t bridge the gap between independent, autonomous websites, MySpace says. Every site remains an island.

But with MySpaceID, partners will be able to access MySpace user data, combine it with their own, and present it on their sites outside of the normal widget framework. Friends lists can be syncronized, for example. Or Twitter may use the data to recommend other Twitter users who are your MySpace friends.

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Uploaded: 3/23/09

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Sources

1. News Corp in $580m internet buy (news.bbc.co.uk) []
2. IODA PARTNERS WITH MYSPACE MUSIC []
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4. Vodafone teams up with MySpace to Create Web 2.0 Music platform (vodafone.com) []
5. MySpace Shows Facebook How It’s Done: Google Gears To Power Messaging (techcrunch.com) []