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The Warwick Advertiser - Fri Dec 11, 3:02 am ET
NEW YORK New laws passed in 25 states are making it easier for social networking giants Facebook and MySpace to purge their membership lists of convicted rapists, gropers and child molesters.
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KPCC Pasadena - Thu Dec 10, 10:58 pm ET
SANTA ANA — A Yorba Linda man charged with drugging and raping two women he met on MySpace, and forcibly raping his 17-year-old girlfriend, is to appear in court Friday.
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WPIX 11 New York - Thu Dec 10, 5:37 pm ET
Thirteen social networking sites including MySpace and Facebook have agreed to deactivate users registered on New York's list of sex offenders.
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Fullerton News Tribune - Thu Dec 10, 5:33 pm ET
FULLERTON – The Orange County District Attorney's Office is asking for the public's help in identifying potential additional victims of a Yorba Linda man accused of raping three women, including two he met on MySpace. Jason Ara Erpinar, 20, is...
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KTLA-TV Los Angeles - Thu Dec 10, 4:51 pm ET
FULLERTON -- A Yorba Linda man charged with drugging and raping women he met on the social networking Web site MySpace is due in court Friday for a pretrial hearing.
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Wired News - Wed Dec 9, 7:06 pm ET
MySpace gives developers access to its users' real time activity stream through its new API. Webmonkey hopes the aging social network will seize this opportunity to bring its music sharing and recommendation system up to par with the other, easier-to-use social music services.
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Concord Monitor - Thu Dec 10, 8:18 am ET
The police say the popular social networking website MySpace helped track down a man who ran from a fatal shooting in Berlin.
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New York Times - Wed Dec 9, 6:26 am ET
MySpace ’s online music venture with recording labels completed its purchase of song streaming site imeem on Tuesday, scooping up its 16 million users and mobile phone applications for less than $1 million, The Associated Press reported.
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PC World via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 6:20 am ET
In an aggressive move, MySpace will open its users' public activity stream data to external developers, so that third-party applications and Web sites are able to display these status updates and action notifications.
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All About Jazz - Thu Dec 10, 7:22 am ET
MySpace has announced a suite of new API interfaces to encourage developers to leverage public data (status updates, music, photos, videos) in real time and create applications to socialize content on and off the site. To encourage developers, MySpace has launched a Developer Challenge competition, which kicks off January
4, rewarding developers who create the most interesting use of the ...
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All About Jazz - Thu Dec 10, 7:22 am ET
Sources tell Hypebot that the primary reason for yesterday's abrupt shift of imeem users to MySpace Music was because the deal only worked economically if imeem were shuttered. That meant that they no longer had the licenses or assets to continue operating the site. MySpace essentially bought the few parts of imeem that it cared about after the shutdown...
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CNET - Wed Dec 9, 1:14 pm ET
When MySpace acquired iLike, it left the service basically intact. Not so with Imeem.
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CNET - Wed Dec 9, 1:09 pm ET
The strategy here is to get MySpace content pushed out across the Web, with a new set of APIs that make its content more searchable and real-time.
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TechNewsWorld.com - Wed Dec 9, 2:38 pm ET
Wednesday announcements from Twitter and MySpace further indicated that social networking is now part of mainstream computing. At LeWeb, the European Internet event held in Paris, Twitter announced that it is opening up its data stream to all developers. Meanwhile, MySpace, which lags behind Facebook in the social networking scene, has released free application programming interfaces.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 6:29 pm ET
MySpace on Tuesday announced that it has bought online music service imeem and is weaving it into the social networking community.