Category Archives: MySpace

Yahoo’s Mash Faces Two Big Challenges (Not The Least Of Which Is “Yet-Another-Itis”).

Yahoo has released its social network “Mash” into beta, with a limited number of invites circulating around your favourite social networking sites.  I’ve yet to actually play with it myself (not deigned to being big or influential enough to get any advance shares sadly), but I can already tell you that the advance press (from [...]

Is Club Penguin Worth More Than MySpace?

You may have heard Club Penguin was sold to Disney for a whopping $700 million penguins dollars. Whooooo, that’s a lot of money.  Who is Club Penguin, you might ask?  Why have I never heard of such a property going for such princely MySpace-ian sums? Remember, MySpace was scooped up for a then-mind-boggling $580 million [...]

Will The “Danah” Report Be The Kiss of Death To MySpace’s Valuation?

Why Rupert Murdoch is probably cursing Danah Boyd’s name.

MySpace News Not A Juggernaut? Its The Users, Silly.

Well, some observations from the ever-observant Marshall Kirkpatrick, filtering through Mike Arrington and a few others, that MySpace News is teh dead. Or, something close to it. Crickets chirping, the slow silent death of unusage and all that rot.
This is absolutely no surprise.
I think part of the blame has to do with its [...]