Monthly Archives: June 2008
- June 19, 2008
- Top 5 MySpace Trackers
MySpace trackers that give you the inside scoop on visitors to your MySpace page are the holy grail of social networking. Ideally, a MySpace tracker is embedded furtively in your MySpace layout and reports information including:
Number of Visits
Location of Visitors
Frequency/Length of Visits
IP AddressWhether you are trying to track an anonymous troll or simply wondering who’s [...]
- June 16, 2008
- How Private are Private MySpace Profiles?
By clicking “Account Settings,” selecting the “Privacy” tab and selecting Profile Viewable By: “My Friends Only,” you can easily make your MySpace profile exclusive to friends only. This proves qiute effective in stopping the casual MySpace user from viewing your profile.
But ever since the advent of this feature, hackers have been finding workarounds and loopholes [...]
- June 15, 2008
- MySpace vs. Facebook: The Open Source Wars
MySpace and Facebook have long been two warring sides of the social networking coin. Since Facebook’s inception in February 2004 and its opening up to high schoolers in 2005, MySpace and Facebook have been locked in competition. One recent development that has upped the ante is the launch of Facebook Apps in May 2007, allowing [...]
- June 14, 2008
- Introducing: MySpace Karaoake
In case you hadn’t already embarrassed yourself with candid party pictures, MySpace has tapped kSolo.com to provide a 3,000+ library of pop tunes for you your karaoking pleasure. MySpace Karaoake was launched recently in beta and allows current MySpace users to record and share their own renditions of licensed songs from major artists with their [...]
- June 13, 2008
- “Code Blue”: Coors Light and Other Advertisers Aggressively Marketing Towards Social Media
Logging on to MySpace and finding a friend request from McDonalds or Coors Light has many MySpacers feeling ambivalent about the growing presence of advertisers on MySpace. On the one hand, product enthusiasts finally have an outlet for their endorsements (see: Coors Light themed MySpace layouts) but on the other hand, most of us signed [...]
- June 12, 2008
- Google and MySpace Sign Deal Meaning Smoother Browsing Ahead
Ergonomic Web giants Google have recently entered into an agreement with MySpace to “spruce up” the site, says MySpace reps. In the past few months, Google has been courting the social networking ring for a place to throw its hat in and has chosen to integrate its open source offline browsing solution Google Gears with [...]
- June 11, 2008
- 5 Surefire Ways to Jeopardize Your Career on MySpace
Career-savvy counselors advise against posting anything ribald or questionable on your MySpace profile for one good reason: anyone can stumble across it. The next person to load your profile and see that drunken party picture or risque bathroom mirror pic could be your grandma, a student, a teacher or even a potential employer. While it [...]
- June 9, 2008
- Decision ‘08: Show Your Support on Your MySpace layouts
With the upcoming presidential election, the media is abuzz about the candidates. In spite of this, voter turnout in the United States has historically hovered at just above half. As an individual, it may seem as if there is a little you can do to extend your influence beyond your single vote. Luckily, MySpace provides [...]
- June 8, 2008
- How To: Download MP3s and Videos from MySpace
MySpace is an excellent platform for sharing songs from unsigned and independent bands and user-created videos. But occasionally, you’ll want to listen to a song or watch your favorite MySpace video without being connected to the Internet. Unless the artist has enabled downloadable MP3s, this can be somewhat of a challenge. Luckily, there [...]
- June 7, 2008
- How to Avoid Lawsuits from MySpace
As MySpace gains national notoriety and media recognition, the social network has become less and less a lighthearted “anything goes” playground and more a liability demanding careful discretion. Don’t believe you can get sued for your MySpace activity? Recent national news begs to differ:
Teen hackers were arrested in New York for attempting to steal personal [...]
