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Woman indicted in fatal MySpace hoax on girl

"Any adult who uses the Internet to bully or harass another person, particularly a young teenage girl, needs to realize that their actions can have serious consequences," U.S. Attorney Thomas O'Brien said in announcing the indictment.

Pillaged MySpace Photos Show Up in Massive BitTorrent Download

The creator of the file says he compiled the photos earlier this month using the MySpace security hole that Wired News reported on last week. That hole, still unacknowledged by the News Corporation-owned site, allowed voyeurs to peek inside the photo galleries of some MySpace users who had set their profiles to "private," despite MySpace's assurances that such images could only be seen by people on a user's friends' list.

MySpace: 29,000 sex offenders have profiles

PedSpace? MySpace.com has found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders with profiles on the popular social networking Web site more than four times the number cited by the company two months ago, North Carolina officials said Tuesday.

How The Internet And Innocence Kill Culture

Andrew Keen, Author of Cult of the Amateur: How The Internet Is Killing Today's Culture says, "The cult of the amateur is the love affair that we all have for amateur-created content on the Internet. By amateur, I mean content created by people without the kind of monetary award that allows one to pay one s mortgage or put food on the table"...read more on www.orato.com...

MySpace, MySpears: Hounding Britney

Getting a Britney Spears exclusive doesn t necessarily require going undercover at Promises Treatment Facility, but it seemingly does require some creativity. I didn t get the shocking story, but I did sniff out Ms. Spears, and something smelled a little funny. But I suspected I was on the right track, because I had my sources.

MySpace won't give names of sex offenders

MySpace s chief security officer said the company regularly discloses information to law enforcement officials but the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act says it can only do so when proper legal processes are followed.

Defense Dept. Blocking MySpace, YouTube

From the Put the Genie Back in the Bottle Dept: The Defense Department will begin blocking access "worldwide" to YouTube, MySpace and 11 other popular Web sites on its computers and networks, according to a memo sent Friday by Gen. B.B. Bell, the U.S. Forces Korea commander. The policy is being implemented to protect information and reduce drag on the department's networks, according to Bell.

Fox Owned MySpace to Enter the News Business

Experts note this may be the first Fox-owned venture to actual enter the news business: MySpace News brings to a much larger audience the user-recommendation capabilities already available through Digg and Time Warner Inc.'s Netscape. It also marks the site's further inroads into becoming an Internet portal akin to Yahoo Inc. and others.

John McCain’s MySpace Page “Enhanced”

McCain s staff used his template, but didn t give Davidson credit. Worse, he says, they use images that are on his server, meaning he has to pay for the bandwidth used from page views on McCain s site. Davidson decided to play a small prank on the campaign this morning as retribution. Since he s in control of some of the images on the site, he replaced one that shows contact information with a statement.

MySpace Restrictions Upset Some Users

I closed my account awhile ago. When Fox bought it, I didn't want to have anything to do with it: "MySpace says that it will block these pieces of third-party software also called widgets when they lend themselves to violations of its terms of service, like the spread of pornography or copyrighted material. But it also objects to widgets that enable users to sell items or advertise without authorization, or without entering into a direct partnership with the company."

Impact: MySpace starts politics channel

The Impact Channel will feature videos from the candidates, voter registration tools and job-listings. It will feature fund-raising tools in the coming weeks. At launch, Clinton s profile page claimed about 359 friends. Obama s page listed 66,080 friends. Looks like HIllary's got some catching up to do. So, here we have another Fox owned entity getting into covering politics. It's not clear if they will be able to bring their right wing propaganda to bear on MySpace or not.

MySpace Rumored to Offer Social News

Soon, "My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, And their like It's better than yours" will be a top story. I predict that MySpace news will be a flop. The backlash on NewsCorp and Fox at MySpace hasn't begun yet...but it will...

Murder on MySpace

Daniel Varo lived his life on the Web. When he was killed by a shot to the back of the head, his death played out online, too.

Wired News editor catches MySpace pedophile

In May, I began an automated search of MySpace's membership rolls for 385,932 registered sex offenders in 46 states, mined from the Department of Justice's National Sex Offender Registry website -- a gateway to the state-run Megan's Law websites around the country. I searched on first and last names, limiting results to a five mile radius of the offender's registered ZIP code. Wired News will publish the code under an open-source license later this week.

The Story of Friendster: Turned down $30 million acquisition by Google

Go for it, he did. Mr. Abrams spurned Google s advances and charted his own course. In retrospect, he should have taken the $30 million. If Google had paid him in stock, Mr. Abrams would easily be worth $1 billion today, according to one person close to Google. And with Google s ample resources, Friendster might have solidified its position as the pioneering front-runner in social networking. Instead, Mr. Abrams has the distinction of founding a company that is shorthand for potential unmet.