Sing your way to MySpace stardom

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Want to become a MySpace star, but haven’t got any demos to show off? SingShot may be the answer.

Plot your visitors’ location

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Geo Visitors is a really nifty free online service that allows you to automatically plot where in the world visitors to your MySpace profile come from. It also works with any site where you can place HTML.

Masters of MySpace - Kevin Turner

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

In this series of profiles I interview the Masters of MySpace - individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the development of MySpace profile customization, whether it is by developing programming techniques, coming up with amazing designs or contributing to the MySpace community.

The Marines want you

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

Five months after setting up a profile, the US Marines have recruited more than 430 people throuugh MySpace.

The Marines

Add a map to your MySpace profile

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Want to add a map to your MySpace profile? You can, thanks to one of MySpace’s would-be competitors.

Blackouts behind MySpace’s weekend outages

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

A combination of record high temperatures and a stressed electricity network resulted in a number of blackouts across California over the weekend, including one that hit MySpace’s Los Angeles data center. Back up generators failed, and as a result, MySpace went down on both Saturday and Sunday night.

Books are now cool

Monday, July 24th, 2006

As if music, movies, videos and comedy weren’t enough, MySpace now wants to be a mover and shaker in the world of books, with the launch of its new book section.

MySpaceIM: a MySpace remote control

Monday, July 24th, 2006

I’ve had more time to have a play with MySpace’s new instant messanging client MySpaceIM.