Posts tagged with 'Murdoch'
MySpace has joined up with Google for the launch of its OpenSocial platform, which aims to create a common platform for developers to create applications for social networks.
Bebo also joined in with OpenSocial yesterday, while LinkedIn, XING, Friendster and Orkut are already on board. The big question is whether Facebook will decide to join Google's initiative.
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by Graham Charlton
02 November 2007 13:53pm
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Roy Greenslade, who appears to be my favourite blogger du jour, sparked a furore last week after deciding to quit the NUJ after 30 years of membership, a move which makes even more sense once you digest what the NUJ thinks about ‘Web 2.0’.
The National Union of Journalists’ magazine – which I don’t subscribe to, before you get the wrong impression - has a bizarre article in this month’s issue called ‘Web 2.0 Is Rubbish’.
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by Chris Lake
31 October 2007 17:11pm
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Google has thrown down the gauntlet to Facebook with plans to compete with the social network’s hugely popular software development platform.
The devilishly cunning but widely expected move - coming just a few days after Facebook’s strategic partnership with Microsoft - will see the online ad giant allowing developers to build apps and syndicate them across different social media sites.
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by Richard Maven
31 October 2007 09:11am
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Tom Anderson, the co-founder and public face of MySpace, has been rumbled for lying about his age in his profile – he’s apparently four years older than he claims.
But besides showing how far he was prepared to go to appear in touch with MySpace's yoof audience, and being pretty embarrassing, is this a big deal?
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by Richard Maven
30 October 2007 08:27am
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NBC and Fox's joint online video venture Hulu has launched today. The site will only be available to a few thousand beta testers initially, but its content will be rolled out to Hulu's distribution partners.
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by Graham Charlton
29 October 2007 12:21pm
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MySpace will be launching a platform for outside application developers in the 'next couple of months', according to Rupert Murdoch and MySpace chief executive Chris DeWolfe.
As predicted, Murdoch announced the plans during the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco yesterday, saying MySpace would begin by offering a directory of widgets that have been created for the site.
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by Graham Charlton
18 October 2007 11:28am
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The New York Times has been making changes to its UGC policy recently -enabling users to make comments directly on its blog pages but stopping short of allowing them on all articles.
Until the end of last year, it had no system for user participation, but has since started to add links to news sharing sites Newsvine and Digg so that comments could at least be left on these sites.
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by Graham Charlton
16 October 2007 08:29am
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LinkedIn will open up to application developers but in a much more limited way than its rival Facebook, according to CEO Dan Nye.
The business-focused social network announced plans to create an open platform for developers earlier this year, but Nye said LinkedIn wanted to avoid some of the more frivolous applications that have been created through Facebook's API.
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by Graham Charlton
15 October 2007 08:47am
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The Guardian remains the most popular UK newspaper website, according to the latest stats from Nielsen//NetRatings. The newspaper has now held the top spot for the last 12 months.
The Telegraph has taken over second spot from The Sun, while The Times, and the Daily Mirror are fourth and fifth respectively. In addition, all of the top ten newspapers in the list have managed to increase their online audiences so far this year.
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by Graham Charlton
11 October 2007 11:16am
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MySpace is reportedly set to follow Facebook's lead and launch an API - a move that will have have third party application developers licking their lips in anticipation.
The News Corp-owned site, which will have noted the popularity of Facebook's decision to launch a range of tools for developers back in May, is apparently planning to announce its reposte at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco next week.
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by Graham Charlton
10 October 2007 12:02pm
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