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MySpace Facing Tough Choices As CEO Departs

“Newscorp already saw this train — which wasn’t so hard to see — coming,” said Anwgin. “It’s clear now, in retrospect, that his [Jon Miller’s] mandate was to come in and replace these guys.” Miller stepped in at AOL under similar circumstances, but AOL ...

From CHRIS SNYDER, Epicenter | Wired Blog,  24 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Jon Miller,  America Online,  Facebook Inc.,  Richard Greenfield,  WIRED Magazine

MySpace Faces Tough Choices With New CEO — UPDATE

MySpace’s corporate overlord seems to have grown tired of the site’s current template and is looking to jazz-up its profile. With Friday’s replacement of CEO Chris DeWolfe with former Facebook executive Owen Van Natta and talk of a new role for ...

From CHRIS SNYDER, Wired,  23 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Jon Miller,  America Online,  Wall Street Journal,  Tom Anderson

Web 2.0 Execs in Iraq Tweet Hope

Silicon Valley luminaries on a State Department-sponsored trip to Iraq are already making observations and floating ideas through Twitter and blog posts about how to bring the war-battered country up to web 2.0 speed. How bad is it? Almost no one in ...

From CHRIS SNYDER, Epicenter | Wired Blog,  22 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Saddam Hussein,  Google Inc.,  Wordpress,  AT&T Inc.

YouTube Edges Cautiously From Grassroots Toward Hollywood

YouTube on Thursday added Sony to its growing roster of Hollywood partners and unveiled a site redesign that aims to better promote authorized versions of full-length movies and TV shows on the site. The moves signal a significant evolution for YouTube ...

From CHRIS SNYDER, Epicenter | Wired Blog,  16 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Sony,  Viacom, Inc.,  ESPN

YouTube Edges Cautiously from Roots Towards Hollywood

YouTube on Thursday added Sony to its growing roster of Hollywood partners and unveiled a site redesign that aims to better promote authorized versions of full-length movies and TV shows on the site. The moves signal a significant evolution for YouTube ...

From CHRIS SNYDER, Wired,  16 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Sony,  Viacom, Inc.,  ESPN

Socializr Launches 'FriendFeed for Events'

Socializr, the Evite competitor from Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams, launched a new service in public Beta Wednesday called Socializr Event Connect that aggregates events across a number of social networks including Facebook, Google, MySpace and ...

From CHRIS SNYDER, Epicenter | Wired Blog,  15 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  FriendFeed,  Google Inc.,  Flickr

Amazon 'Glitch' Delists Gay-Themed Books, Interwebs Cry Foul

Hundreds of gay-and lesbian-themed books suddenly disappeared from Amazon.com's rankings over the weekend, causing an uproar among authors and activists who alleged it was a stealthy extension of the company's policy concerning adult content but which ...

From CHRIS SNYDER, Epicenter | Wired Blog,  13 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  LiveJournal

Online Video Surge May Be One Life Jacket for Sinking Newspapers

Video streams from newspaper web sites increased dramatically last year, a bit of good news for an industry struggling to keep afloat by finding ways of making more money online. In a recent report using data analyzed data from 187 newspaper partner ...

From CHRIS SNYDER, Epicenter | Wired Blog,  8 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Brightcove

Now on YouTube: First Moving Image Ever Made

In the latest effort to bridge the disconnect between the government and new media, the Library of Congress officially launched its YouTube channel Tuesday. The debut includes 70 historical videos from its vast collection, such as the first ever ...

From CHRIS SNYDER, Epicenter | Wired Blog,  7 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Flickr,  General Services Administration,  Vimeo

New FriendFeed A Mashup of Twitter/Facebook/GChat

It's a Twitter world, we just live in it. Social aggregator FriendFeed unveiled a major redesign Monday with a big focus on real-time feeds much simpler than Facebook and a new design (like Facebook) that bears a striking resemblance to Twitter’s ...

From CHRIS SNYDER, Epicenter | Wired Blog,  6 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.

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