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Chicagoist - Fri Nov 6, 5:19 pm ET
Original photo via Jay-Z's MySpace. Back in September we lined up with hundreds of Chicagoans outside the House of Blues for a chance to see Jay-Z 's Samsung-hosted elusive free show. And like many of the same people we queued in line with that evening, we went home unable to even make it as far as the venue doors. We thought the announcement of Jay-Z's 2010 Blueprint 3 second leg tour dates ...
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Austinist - Fri Nov 6, 3:30 pm ET
Image via Street Dogs MySpace page. Photo: Bryan Sheffield. Street Dogs hail from Boston's Dorchester neigorborhood, and are damn proud of it. The band features original Dropkick Murphys vocalist Mike McColgan (who left the Murphys for several years work as a fireman before returning to music) and features a mixture of punk and folk stylings in their songs, many of which have a definite ...
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LAist - Fri Nov 6, 3:16 pm ET
Múm will be performing Friday at the El Rey Theatre | Picture via Múm's Myspace Our Pick: Múm, Sin Fang Bous, Hildur Gudnadottir @ El Rey Theatre Tonight, as always, local multi-instrumentalist/producer extraordinaire Jon Brion (LAist Interview , #2 , Review ) will be jamming with friends at the Largo at the Coronet . Legendary Boston-bred alternative rock outfit the Pixies are poised to ...
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BeatCrave - Fri Nov 6, 2:23 pm ET
Georgia’s Manchester Orchestra is one of the few bands that can pull off extremely melancholic music without it being labeled “emo.” Their latest single, “Shake It Out,” off of their sophomore album Means Everything to Nothing, was released today via MySpace, and from the looks of it the band not only has a thing for [...]
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Mashable - Fri Nov 6, 2:16 pm ET
Last week Google made a big announcement around enhanced search features for music discovery . Now when you search for a song, album, lyrics, or an artist, your search results will include streaming audio previews and purchase options. The features is powered by their partnerships with MySpace and Lala. Today Google is taking their music search to the next level by offering exclusive tracks from ...
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TechCrunch - Tue Nov 3, 8:10 pm ET
The industry is definitely making big changes to self regulate around social gaming offer scams ( complete background here, with updates ). Zynga, the largest social gaming company and the worst offender when it comes to scams, said yesterday that they will take steps to remove scams from games . They were quickly followed by RockYou . Today MySpace is making a big move itself. They are ...
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WHSV Harrisonburg - Tue Nov 3, 4:01 pm ET
Many people use social networking sites to catch up with old friends or to connect with coworkers, but one man from Harrisonburg says what he found on MySpace changed his life forever.
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Gawker - Tue Nov 3, 2:29 pm ET
newVideoPlayer("/myspace_brucesterling_valleywag.flv", 500, 375,""); 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...
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Mashable - Tue Nov 3, 11:16 am ET
The extensive collection of exclusive content and marketing we’ve seen on MySpace for the new Twilight movie – New Moon – seems to be exactly what the company has in mind with its new direction as an online content company. Last month, the site was first to offer up free streaming of the soundtrack to the movie, and today, they’re out with a homepage takeover ad that includes the soundtrack ...
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TechCrunch - Fri Nov 6, 12:55 am ET
Back in July we took a look at ZooLoo , a service that looks to help users build their own websites (complete with vanity URLs) where they can manage their entire social network experience from one place — when it launched we described as an iGoogle meets Facebook , in that it's a single hub that lets you interact with your Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace accounts. Since then the site has seen ...
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The Press-Enterprise - Tue Nov 3, 1:49 am ET
An Orange County man was charged with an additional 13 child pornography charges this week, bringing his total to 149 counts of luring underage girls to send him nude pictures on MySpace.
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Mashable - Thu Nov 5, 11:16 pm ET
Scammy, deceptive ads have been in the hotseat this week, as earlier MySpace and now Facebook have made commitments to track down and eradicate misleading offers and survey-related ad scams. Social gaming applications in particular are being targeted for permitting certain types of scammy ads, that typically persuade users into contracting for services without disclosing costs up front. In a ...
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PRWeb via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 6, 2:01 am ET
Best Priced Furniture introduces the MySpace furniture series from Bush Furniture.
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The Gilroy Dispatch - Thu Nov 5, 9:04 pm ET
Rory Tomasello is shown in a photo from his MySpace page. The 22-year-old aspiring playwright died Monday. Photo by: Lora Schraft, Staff Photographer Rory Tomasello, actor, playwright and casual philosopher, died Monday, succumbing to the brain injury he suffered after the bicycle he was riding on collided with an SUV two weeks ago. Tomasello, 22, wasn't wearing a helmet on Oct. 23, the day of ...
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Knowledge at Wharton - Thu Nov 5, 2:28 pm ET
A traffic decline has cut into MySpace's revenue deal with Google. Is this more evidence of a shakeout in the online social media sector?