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MySpace officially opened its Application Gallery to all users this morning after launching it in public beta last March. In that time over 1,000 applications have been approved and added to the gallery and there have been over 2.1 million application installs across the site. Today, MySpace began promoting applications to users by adding an [...]

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I rejoined the Twitter crowd today after taking some time off from gorging on people’s lifestreams. One of the first tweets I received was from from marshalk at Read Write Web, who just posted OpenSocial Beta Apps Go Live on Myspace.
Marshall’s list of key differences between MySpace and other OpenSocial “containers” is worth noting if [...]

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MySpace kicked off its developer program by providing API’s and development tools to tens of thousands of developers, with some unique diistinctions, and restrictions, that it hopes will result in high quality apps.
Tom Foremski at ZDNet thinks the submission process for Myspace applications is going to be a huge bottleneck.

All applications have to be vetted [...]

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Mark your calendar’s, Wednesday, June 30 is International Delete Your MySpace Account Day. Make sure to read the list the many ways in which MySpace had failed the guy who is organizing the day. I share is frustration with almost all his issues, although I have to keep my profile up for work stuff, unfortunately.
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WPP has invested in the Chinese venture capital firm which is spearheading the launch of MySpace in China. The marketing services group headed by Sir Martin Sorrell has ploughed an undisclosed sum into China Broadband Capital Partners, a Beijing-based investor in the technology and media sectors.
In 2006 WPP Group said it has joined with online [...]

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More than 29,000 registered sex offenders have been found to have created profiles on MySpace, four times the number of sex offenders previously reported. Via Mashable.

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After  week of political posturing, the New York Times says that Myspace will hand over to state attorneys general the names, addresses and online profiles of thousands of known convicted sex offenders who have opened up accounts on the service. More than 7,000 profiles of convicted sexual predators have been removed as well. States must [...]

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Law enforcement officials are charging that the online social network MySpace has discovered thousands of known sex offenders using its service, but has failed to act on the information. So much for the Sentinel Sentry sex offender database.
Hemanshu Nigam, the chief security officer of MySpace, supports legislation requiring convicted sex offenders to register their e-mail [...]

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The Economist reports that according to Hitwise, people are increasingly getting their daily allowance of porn via social networking.
The online pornography industry is estimated to be worth about $1 billion, and counts for about 13% of website visits in America (compared to search engines, which account for 7%).
I have been saying this for a long [...]

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