“The functionality will become available at some point in the coming weeks to both users and third-party sites. At the core will be privacy and security controls so that users retain tight control over what data they share and in which site.”

However, it’s difficult to see how that’ll be reliably achieved given that ultimately, all these data are in the hands of the corporations running the sites.The good part is, myspace will allow users to control what information can be shared.

MySpace is set to launch a new feature named MySpace Karaoke today to its Social  networking service.

MySpace co-founder and  President Tom Anderson spoke about this new feature addition: “It is in part because music is so popular on our site. But also because karaoke is such a fun and  social thing, which is what we’re about too. It’s not as much fun to go to karaoke alone, but when you do it through the Internet or on your MySpace page, then you can share it with people.”

Users would be able to upload  audio recordings of them  singing popular songs on the service to their accounts. Continue Reading »

MySpace users beware! It seems that Internet villains have discovered yet another way to take advantage of your favorite social networking site. While browsing my daily list of reads this morning, I stumbled on this post on the Full Disclosure mailing list describing how an attacker can take advantage of Myspace’s navigation menu to gain possession of your login credentials. They can either make quicktime worm or fake login page. Do NOT give your password to other than myspace.com. Check in the address bar to confirm its myspace.com as a domain.

Anybody happen to catch Nightline couple days ago on ABC?

In case you didn’t, one of the hot topics discussed was MySpace.

It is no secret to anyone who reads the newspaper or watches the 6 o’clock news that MySpace has been in the limelight because of “sexual predators” trying to “abduct and corrupt” the youth of the world.

I think people just finding ways to blame myspace and trying to show how bad it is.