Myspace News

Statistics from Web monitoring firm comScore show that MySpace served nearly 1.5 billion streams, representing 20 percent of all video streamed to US internet users during the month.

The typical US user on MySpace initiated an average of 39 streams in July, or slightly more than one a day.

Yahoo Video ranked second in total streams initiated by US users with 812 million, followed by YouTube with 649 million.

Is your family pet missing out on the fun of social networking? Well now it can join the craze like everyone else thanks to new sites such as www.dogster.com.

It has similar features to Myspace such as a friends list and the ability to post videos. You can even nominate your pet for an award.

More than 200,000 dogs have so far been signed-up, along with almost 90,000 cats.

A comment by RBC Capital analyst Jordan Rohan saying that MySpace could be worth between $10 and $20 billion in a few years’ time has caused a stir all over the internet today.

Rohan backs up this claim — which many are taking very seriously — by pointing to MySpace’s “raw, unprecedented user/usage growth.”

Trade Me says it’s not about to compete with websites such as MySpace and Bebo by starting its own social networking site, but won’t rule out such a move in the future.

A social networking site would be a logical step for Trade Me because it can easily overcome the first hurdle: attracting a community.

The web auction powerhouse already has a large and active community with more than one million members. Trade Me members also post short profiles with optional photos, and the company runs dating website Find Someone and Old Friends, which connects alumni from schools, universities and workplaces.

Technology head Jon Macdonald says Trade Me is concentrating on other projects, such as its smaps and jobs websites, where the company sees clearer potential, rather than social networking.

However, Mr Macdonald wouldn’t rule a site out, and says one could figure in Trade Me’s future.

Myspace and VeriSign Announced a  Joint Venture to create the largest provider of  mobile entertainment.

News Corp. (MySpace Owners) will pay approximately $188 million for a controlling interest in VeriSign’s wholly-owned Jamba subsidiary and will combine it with Fox Mobile Entertainment assets.

The new company will merge the most technologically advanced platform in the category with market-leading mobile content production and delivery capabilities and will serve 30 territories with a potential reach of more than a billion mobile subscribers. The new company intends to retain the Jamster brand in the U.S. and the Jamba brand worldwide.

The ‘big suit’ of Universal Music: Doug Morris has released his ‘top secret, evil plan’ on how he is going to make his next few billion. And shock horror! He is going to sue!

But this time he is not suing some 12-year-old kid because he/she downloaded The All American Rejects Album - this time he is going for the biggest sites on the web ‘Myspace and You Tube’ saying “these new businesses are copyright infringers and owe us tens of millions of dollars.”

Our old friend Doug is not really up with the times and is pissed off about the music videos uploaded to Myspace and You tube.

Universal doesn’t seem to see the potential these sites have unlike other labels such as Warner Music in which many of the bands signed to them upload there music videos to make the most of the free promotion available which has the potential to reach millions of people.

This could also be a big hint that www.spiralfrog.com (the new ad-supported music download site endorsed by Universal) will be offering ad-supported videos available to download/stream as well.

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