MySpace plans to announce that it has formed a business incubator called SlingShot Labs to spawn Internet start-ups for News Corporation’s growing empire of Web properties, which now includes The Wall Street Journal’s WSJ.com as well as the video game site IGN, according to BusinessWeek. The new venture is seeded with $15 million to hire roughly 40 employees, mostly software developers, say people with knowledge of the plans.

According to the Silicon Valley’s version of the National Enquirer,  two enterprising post-college grads have created a mashup which displays your out-of-control Myspace spasm in the spare, blue-and-white layout we call Facebook. And they call it, wait for it…. SpaceLift. Looks broken at the moment, won’t import my Myspace profile, must be getting hammered on.

This just in: The easiest way to get hired at Facebook is to come on as a ringer on their ultimate frisbee team.

This is the first time I’ve received email from Myspace phishers. The beginning looks somewhat legit, but then read the bottom, see the references to Windows Registry keys?

You’ve got a new song from Victor on MySpace!

Click here to hear your MySpace music:

http://myspace.mp3shest.com/?reloc.cfm=6&id=39734

Click here to get 5-free songs downloaded to Your Space:

http://myspace.mp3shest.com/?reloc.cfm=6&id=3973454727_5free

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At MySpace we care about your privacy. We have sent you this
notification to facilitate your use as a member of the MySpace service. If
you don’t want to receive emails like this to your external email account
in the future, change your Account Settings to “Do not send me
notification emails”

Click here to change your Account Settings:

http://myspace.mp3shest.com/?account.settings=update=6&id=39734

MySpace Inc. – 1900 Wilshire Blvd. 2109, Los Angeles, CA 90403-5400 USA

©2006 MySpace Inc. All Rights Reserved

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MySpace has soft-launched an instant-messaging client – MySpaceIM. How long until more people use MySpace IM than AOL, two weeks? This is a repeat of how Myspace video quickly overtook YouTube a few weeks ago.
Of course, MySpace IM is Windows only at the moment, supposedly based on MSN Messenger protocol.

Being able to IM your buddies even when you’re not logged into Myspace is huge. The possibilities for spIM (IM Spam) and pedophiles abuse are enormous. As with all things, the good always includes some of the bad.

Full deets here.

I had a conversation with a startup yesterday where we spoke at length about how to make it as difficult as possible to leave the service once you have added your “user-generated content.”
Most of the time companies like this have sketchy business models and are afraid of what is going to happen when people get bored of the service and move on to the next big thing.
The answer is simple, the right results often elusive. Create a compelling user experience that makes people want to come back for more, often.
For example: YouTube won the first round over Google Video because it’s easier to use. Myspace gets more traffic than YouTube, but what does that mean for the rest of the world that’s not on Myspace? I would think most people won’t join a social networking site just to store videos on Myspace.

CEO of Newsvine says MySpace is a “factory of unnecessary clicks.” (via SiliconBeat).

What if the operators of MySpace cleaned up the site and followed modern interface and web application principles?
That’s right. I hold that at least 2/3rds of page views would disappear. Here’s what I mean. This would be the flow in a, say, Google-engineered network experience:
1. Click over to “GoogSpace”, or whatever we want to call it. (+1 page view)
2. Click through to read and reply to all mail (0)
3. Visit a few friends’ pages (+3)
4. Edit my profile page (+1)
That’s about 5 registered page views. The rest of the interaction comes from XML/HTTP requests.
Here’s the same sequence on MySpace:
1. Click over to MySpace. (+1 page view)
2. Log in, because MySpace doesn’t remember logins very well. (+2)
3. Click through to read and reply to all mail, about three per mail. (+21)
4. Visit a few friends’ pages. (+3)
5. Reload a few pages because of server errors. (+3)
5. Edit my profile page. (+10)

That’s about 40 registered page views…

Mike Davidson has written a great article about hacking the Myspace CSS. He mentions a CSS tool called Xyle scope which is absolutely amazing compared to the Firefox extensions I’ve been using to debug CSS on my blogs.