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repost from TECHCRUNCH Social media website MYSPACE was sold today by owner Rupert Murdock who lost over half a billion on the deal.....not to mention that the remaining workforce of 400 will be slashed to 200....... alot of people no longer check their Myspace pages anyway.....I think I only keep mine out of nostalgia.. http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/29/myspace-goes-to-specific-media-for-35m-ceo-is-out-press-release/Tom
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That's called a tax write-off for Murdock.
I still have a page there, however it's been neglected forever. I've logged in maybe 3 times in the past two years. Eventually the same will happen for Facebook, so other source will come along and top it. In fact Facebook is already tapering off stateside.
I've been neglecting a lot of my online stuff. Though yesterday I finally took a little time to update several of my domains. Eventually I'm going to do a makeover on my dot com, definitely before I finish the next CD.
Much like having a permanent mailing address, my dot com has been the rock through all the social websites.
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I dumped my page on MySpace. The next thing I know, there is a Kurt Fortmeyer Music page on MySpace. They put it up, and pulled my music from somewhere else. I would love to go on that page and post "I do not support this page.", but the only way to do it is to sign up for MySpace again. That's not going to happen.
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Sounds like a typical music business transaction to me.. hehe
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Bought by Specific Media and Justin Timberlake...so MAYBE it will revive as a musician's place
If writing ever becomes work I think I'm going to have to stop
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didnt know Justin Timberlake was one of the new owners.....
well maybe he will declutter and unf**k the site so it will again be a website worthy of our time..........then we can all let the air out of Facebook's tires-ha ha......pass the word-dump Facebook.
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social media sites are starting to feel a little like the 2002 dot com bubble.... I've been to my myspace about like Jody once or twice a year or so, my enthusiasm for it wore off quickly, seems everyone else's did too.
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Bought by Specific Media and Justin Timberlake...so MAYBE it will revive as a musician's place Yeah if Justin decides one day to actually be a musician.
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I have not been on either for a good bit of time, other than to facebook to go back in and tell it again to stop sending me emails from anyone or anything. I still get them.
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It is amazing how they went down so fast. I have not even visited my Myspace page for months. It is simply irrelevant.
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Where I am on dialup I could not go on Myspace, it was so slow because it is so cluttered.
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The problem with nearly ALL Free online "social" sites is that they're for everyone (no specialized focus like we have here at JPF), they're public and overflowing (think toilet) with irrelevant and/or offensive advertsing. There are exceptions like YouTube, but it's not really a "social" site as much as a resource to access all kinds of music and videos including many historical acts. So for something of that much value and growing demand, people will put up with the advertising, and the content providers can also chose to disable comments to minimize the "socializing" to control and turn it OFF! Something better and more useful than MySpace or even Facebook, might be a site like YouTube geared only for audio music, think: YouRadio. Same concept as YouTube, but only for hearing the music and not having to get smoothered with all the visual and graphic images which don't do anything to make the music sound better. Who knows, maybe it's already planned or done?
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach MichaelBorges.comLicenseQuote.com
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Interesting Timberlake wanted it.. BTW he's a TERRIFIC comedian... if you've seen him on SNL... knock-down FUNNY. I respect him these days. Linda
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