Blackjack fans on MySpace looking forward to the March 28 release of 21, the high stakes action adventure from Columbia Pictures, can hone their skills and play for individual and college bragging rights with the new 21-themed blackjack widget, available now. A widget is a piece of software a user can grab and put on their own personal website. (more…)

Odd thing about Myspace’s new eco-book, “MySpace/OurPlanet: Change Is Possible”: It kicks off with Myspace president Tom Anderson basically declaring the supremacy of the printed word over the web: “I wouldn’t be doing this unless I thought it was for something so unbelievably important that it had to be in print,” Anderson writes in his foreword. (more…)

MySpaceTV to Host Minyanville Channel Featuring Episodes of Hoofy and Boo’s “News & Views” Mar. 25, 2008 MySpace, the world’s most popular social network, and Minyanville Publishing and Multimedia, (http://www.minyanville.com), the leading financial media company, today announced a branded channel content deal on MySpaceTV (http://www.myspacetv.com). Minyanville will provide MySpace with all episodes of the popular animated-financial news show that airs weekly on the Fox Business Network’s Happy Hour show (Fridays, 5PM-6PM EST). (more…)

Clauses in most home cover policies mean that damage to the possessions and your property may not be covered. And many insurers will refuse to pay out if you or your child have acted irresponsibly. This includes allowing in gatecrashers, advertising your party on the internet through social networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook, and even inviting more guests than could reasonably fit into your home. (more…)

Social networking sites are booming and two leading companies are fighting to emerge as market leader, a new report asserts. According to comScore, there has been a 34 per cent growth in the number of international visitors to social networking sites in the past year. The total audience for community web spaces has reached 530 million, meaning that two in every three cyber surfers use the resources. (more…)

Kylie Robertson first began blogging at 13, about the time she felt some complicated new emotions emerging. By her mid-teens, she was routinely spilling her feelings online, using her Internet journal as her sounding board. Mostly, she vented about whatever was ticking her off at the time. “I thought that starting something like a blog could help me - I could go back and read what I was feeling at that time, and it would help me to sort things out,” she says. Robertson, now 19, isn’t alone. While teens as a whole rule the blogosphere - 28 per cent of Internet-using teenagers blog compared with only eight per cent of adults - girls of all ages dominate, according to a recent survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. (more…)

MySpace, in cooperation with the Department of Defense’s Armed Forces Entertainment and America Supports You program, have announced the launch of Operation MySpace, a landmark concert event designed to bring troops serving in Kuwait a taste of home via the wonder of live music. On March 10th, 2008, MySpace Co-Founders Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe, along with some of today’s most popular musical acts, will participate in a 3-hour plus MySpaceLive! concert in Kuwait that will be streamed in high definition flash video using Kulabyte’s XStream Live Solutions exclusively on the official Operation MySpace profile. (more…)

During her senior year at McCutcheon High School, Tiffany Morris set up a MySpace account to keep in touch with family and friends who don’t live nearby. But unlike some of her peers — and countless others who use the popular social networking Web site — she chose to take extra steps to protect her privacy online. “You need to know my e-mail address before I’ll approve you,” said Morris, 19, now a freshman at Ivy Tech Community College. “I’ve gone through my friends’ MySpace lists and asked, ‘Who’s this person?’ They don’t even know. (more…)

MySpace on Monday will host a morale-building concert for coalition troops in Kuwait with an Internet-age twist by broadcasting the show on its popular social-networking website. A MySpaceLive concert from a coalition base in Kuwait will be streamed in high definition video at http://myspace.com/operationmyspace beginning at 11:00 California time (1900 GMT). (more…)

If eyes are the window to the soul, Facebook is a contorted mirror, the final nail in the voyeuristic coffin.” A cyber-cynic friend came up with this gem last week as we embarked on our umpteenth Facebook debate. She was being virtually super-poked by a callous ex-boyfriend for the second time in as many days; I was lamenting being in the virtual doghouse for not having paid enough ‘cyber-attention’ to a friend whose online status had declared she was having a bad day. (more…)