On Wednesday night, Google OneBox was born. U.S. users are now one click away from listening to a full-length song in that you are now able to stream songs directly from Google’s results page.
Google OneBox will let users stream songs directly from the Google search results page and will also include additional information such [...]

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The Twilight: New Moon soundtrack may not be available until Friday (preorder here), but you can listen to it live right now!
Just head over to the official Twilight MySpace page and you’ll find all the tracks in the standard MySpace music player.
Now that the soundtrack’s release date has been pushed up, the CD [...]

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Most of the time, contextual advertising can be extremely beneficial in targeting online marketing campaigns. And then there’s these times. These contextual ads missed the mark by a mile and kept going, displaying ads that were wildly inappropriate, yet hilarious.

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The United States Marine Corps has published a notice stating that all social networking websites are now banned on the Marine Corps Enterprise Network (MCEN).
The document reads as follows (why are they shouting??):
2. BACKGROUND. INTERNET SNS ARE DEFINED AS WEB-BASED SERVICES THAT ALLOW COMMUNITIES OF PEOPLE TO SHARE COMMON INTERESTS AND/OR EXPERIENCES (EXISTING OUTSIDE OF [...]

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As MySpace loses traffic, MySpace Graveyard gains traffic.  So says, the new parody promo from CollegeHumor.
This is another epic win for CollegeHumor.  Can MySpace return to its glory days by focusing on music or even gaming?  Maybe.
Until then, enjoy MySpace Graveyard…

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Finally…a lawsuit we are happy to report on.  We get so much spam from Tagged, it’s ridiculous.
Now, social networking site Tagged.com has been sued by the State of New York for “deceptive e-mail marketing practices and invasion of privacy.”
New York’s Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, says that Tagged illegally tries to attract new members by [...]

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MySpace will be laying off 300 people internationally and shutting down at least 4 offices outside the United States.
Owen Van Natta has admitted to trying to grow their European presence too quickly.  The employees affected are mainly in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Sweden, and Spain.
MySpace’ Japanese and Chinese operations will be [...]

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In a recent study by Zogby Interactive (one that I hope didn’t cost them too much money), it was revealed that more than 50 percent of those surveyed would choose the internet if they only had one news source.
File this under “The Land of Duh” perhaps, although it does further explain the demise of the [...]

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MySpace has confirmed today that the company is going to “reduce staff by nearly 30 percent,” effective immediately.
Reports indicate that there is currently extra security in the MySpace corporate offices. Managers have also been given boxes to distribute to employees to pack their belongings.
MySpace currently has around 1,600 employees, which would seem to indicate [...]

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That loud “Oops!” that you hear is coming from MySpace.
MySpace seems to be updating their “Groups” feature.  Groups gives users the ability to connect on a community message board and group page.
Currently, the service is down and displays the message “Groups are currently disabled for special maintenance. They will be available again shortly.”
Many MySpace users [...]

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