MySpace Articles

MySpace is a popular social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos internationally. It is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, US, where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media; in turn, the owner of Fox Interactive and therefore MySpace, News Corporation, is headquartered in New York City. According to Alexa Internet, MySpace is currently the world’s sixth most popular English-language website and the sixth most popular website in any language, and the third most popular website in the United States , though it has topped the chart on various weeks. The service has gradually gained more popularity than similar websites to achieve nearly 80% of visits to online social networking websites. It has become an increasingly influential part of contemporary popular culture, especially in English speaking countries.

Hi-Res, Self-Service Video Production for SMBs

Animoto, is a web-based application that, with the click of a button, produces videos using images and music that a user selects. Using their patent-pending Artificial Intelligence developed to think like an actual editor & director the service is aimed at consumers and businesses alike. Self-Service Video Production For Business: In late June 2008 they ...

75% of US Internet Users Watched Online Video In May

comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released May 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, reporting that U.S. Internet users viewed more than 12 billion online videos during the month, representing an increase of 45 percent versus year ago. Fox Interactive Media Increases Market Share In May, Google Sites once again ...

Youku Enters Exclusive Partnership With MySpace China

Youku, China's leading video- sharing website according to China Internet Society and iResearch, today announced that it has entered an exclusive partnership with social networking service provider MySpace China for the local market. "The value proposition Youku brings to the MySpace.cn partnership is three-fold," said Victor Koo, CEO of Youku.com. "It expands MySpace.cn's online offerings ...

Myspace Live Streaming HD Video - "Operation MySpace"

Kulabyte, together with MySpace.com, using Adobe® Flash® Media Server through Akamai’s content delivery network, will distribute live HD video on the web from “Operation MySpace.” This live concert webcast from Kuwait will demonstrate the future of video on the web, delivering high definition video of the event at less than 1.5 megabits per second. While ...

MySpace Special Devlivery - Original Web Show

MySpace, the world’s most popular social network, announced the launch of ‘Special Delivery‘, an outrageous, non-scripted hidden-camera reality show in association with Avalon TV and its executive producers Jason Irwin and Garth Holsinger.  The launch of ‘Special Delivery’ marks MySpace’s second co-development project and the second original web show created specifically for MySpaceTV.

MySpace TV - Launches HD Video Player

Thanks for NewTeeVee for pointing this out today. MySpaceTV is launching an HD video player for the social network with a trailer for Iron Man.

News Corporation + Yahoo = Perfect Combination?

According to various recent news articles across the web, Microsoft may be intent on gaining control of Yahoo through a proxy battle after Yahoo rejected their unsolicited buy-out offer. Apparently, News Corporation wouldn't mind a shot at Yahoo either. News Corp., of course, owns Fox, MySpace, IGN, and part of Hulu.com. We know that web ...

Links To Video Sharing's Most Popular Videos

Below are links to view the most popular videos at the following Video Sharing Websites: Youtube Myspace Yahoo Video AOL Video Metacafe VideoSift IFilm Grouper VSocial Revver Truveo

Clipblast = Remote Control for The Video Web

As you may have seen on our site on Nov. 26th , ClipBlast.com appeared to have undergone a complete redesign, incorporating a much cleaner, web 2.0 feel and AJAX functionality. This redesign was officially launched earlier this week on Monday, Dec. 3rd. I had the pleasure of speaking this past weekend with Gary Baker, CEO ...

Adobe Updates Flash 9 for HD Video H.264

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Flash® Player 9 Update 3 software, previously code named Moviestar. Adobe Flash Player 9 now includes H.264 standard video support, the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray® and HD-DVD® high definition video players, and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio capabilities. The latest update also features ...

Free Video Upload and Tracking Tool - Vidmetrix

VidMetrix is a new online video service and tool which enables you to automatically upload your video file to all major video sharing website networks. Similar to Tubemogul, vidmetrix will not only help you upload your file at once to all major engines, but will enable viewership and engagement tracking of your video across the ...

TV Guide Announces Online Video Awards Winners

TV Guide, which canceled its online video awards ceremony and television special out of respect for the Writers Guild of America strike (a story broke on NewTeeVee), has named its award winners in a fanfare-free press release. Voters cast some 1.75 million ballots and the nominees were skewed somewhat towards established media outlets. It is ...

Characteristics of Video Sharing Sites and Monetization

TubeMogul released a nice summary of the online-video search and sharing sites that it supports and provided an excellent post with a summary of user feedback about each site and the monetization opportunities and status. The following sites are included: Youtube, Yahoo, DailyMotion, MySpace, MetaCafe, Google, Revver, Blip.tv, Veoh, StupidVideo, Crackle, BrightCove, and AOL. You ...

MediaPost Launches Video Sharing and Social Networking

I just received the following email from Media Post announcing their new social networking platform which is powered by conVerdge. In it, you can see that it mentions the ability to share videos... "Dear Mark, We've just finished migrating MediaPost.com to a new social networking platform to allow for stronger connections and better, more frequent ...

2008 and Future Online Video Value Chain Predictions

Every Thursday at AltSearchEngines, they feature posts from Guest Authors from from the search engines themselves. Today, AltSearchEngines posted the following future predictions from Tom Wilde, CEO of EveryZing, the multimedia search and merchandising platform. In addition, ReelSEO spoke with Tom Wilde yesterday and we plan to publish a post in the coming weeks that ...