Hacking MySpace

It’s no secret that employers are now screening job candidates by googling them. Which means you might not get a job if you’ve posted something compromising about yourself on MySpace (or anywhere else), and forgotten about it, or if someone else has posted something unpleasant about you.

Everyone seems to launching social networking sites at the moment - and it’s not just Microsoft with its Live Spaces site. It’s getting to the stage where if you were backing one of these new sites you must be getting worried that the social networking arena is getting a little crowded.

The US House of Representatives has voted to ban the use of social networking sites in publicly funded organizations, such as schools and libraries. The ban comes in response to several cases of predators using social networking sites, such as MySpace, to meet young people.

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

MySpace has launched an instant messaging (IM) client, MySpaceIM.

Everyone wants to be MySpace, or more precisely, everyone wants to reach MySpace’s young and hip demographic.

A company selling nutritional and natural food products emailed me recently wanting to know how to market its products using MySpace. It’s a topic that a number of companies and individuals are probably thinking about, so I thought it would be useful to put some key points down in a blog.

With more than 90 million profiles on MySpace, how on earth do you make yours stand out?