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Using subscriber information provided by MySpace, Texas officials have arrested seven previously convicted sex offenders who illegally created profiles on the site. The arrests were described as the nation's "first large-scale crackdown" on MySpace-enabled predation. The busts came after a two-week-...
YouTube is planning to test new technology that will help it identify copyrighted video content that has been uploaded onto the site illegally, according to reports. In tests with Time Warner and the Walt Disney Co., the video-sharing site will assess software developed by engineers at its parent co...
Online search giant Google and EMI Music agreed to let users of Google's YouTube video-sharing site access music and clips produced by EMI artists. The London-based publisher contracts popular recording artists including Coldplay, Norah Jones and David Bowie. EMI will now work with Google to develop...
Rupert Murdoch, who lost a chance to buy YouTube last year when the massive video-hosting site was gobbled up by Google, has snagged two other Internet companies that are popular with young people: Photobucket and Flektor. Murdoch's Fox Interactive Media, which owns the heavily visited social networ...
MySpace competitor Facebook has introduced a new open platform that allows developers to build applications that integrate with the social networking site and can be chosen by users to appear within their Facebook profile pages. Announced Thursday by Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg -- and c...
The super-popular MySpace social networking site has been buffeted by a storm of negative press over the actions of several state attorneys general and their recent requests for sex offender information. The whole mess has unfolded like a bad soap opera -- and it must be particularly baffling for My...
After a brief showdown last week with a group of attorneys general, MySpace announced Monday that it will give the group the information it requested about registered sex offenders with profiles on the site. The attorneys general delivered a subpoena to the social networking site on the same day. W...
Allegations of illegal gambling, reports of online orgies, and even an active investigation in Europe of sexual abuse and misconduct seem to have overshadowed the tamer daily goings-on in the virtual world Second Life. Yet, just this week, it was the locale of an innovative job fair in which upstand...
Executives of Web 2.0 companies and some members of Congress are pressing for a reversal of the Pentagon's decision to block access to several popular Web sites on military networks. The decision, abruptly made this week, cuts off troops' access to such sites as YouTube, MySpace, Metacafe, IFilm, St...
MySpace won't comply with a request by eight state attorneys general for it to supply information about sex offenders registered on the site, the company announced Tuesday. Citing the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, MySpace said it is prohibited by law from turning over the information withou...
Citing limited bandwidth and potential security issues, the Pentagon has cut off U.S. troops' access to several social networking and other high-volume Web sites. Soldiers can still post to MySpace and YouTube -- two of the banned sites --but only from outside networks. However, most overseas milita...
Attorneys general in eight states announced Monday that they have sent a letter to MySpace requesting information about sex offenders using the site. Last December, MySpace said it had hired Sentinel Tech Holdings to check the site for registered sex offenders. That search uncovered thousands of off...
The Defense Department is blocking access to 13 Web sites. Personnel use of popular social networking and entertainment sites is siphoning too much of its network bandwidth and creating too many security holes, the department said. The Defense Department has seen too much of its vast network's resou...
There may still be another 18 months or so before the next presidential election, but it's already become very clear that Web 2.0 technologies have changed the terrain of the political campaign process. MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and "Second Life" have all become a standard part of this new campaign...
Social networking portal MySpace will host a series of hour-long sessions on college campuses that will allow people to ask questions of presidential candidates both in person and via the Web. The "Presidential Town Hall" series is MySpace's latest foray into national politics. The social networking...
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