imo.im is a worthy challenger to Meebo
Meebo is probably the most well known web based instant messaging service today.
They have a couple of rivals including imo.im which continues to enhance their features to make it a worthy challenger.
imo.im enables connectivity with a variety of instant messaging services like AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, [...]
Photobucket to be sold for just $60 million?
TechCrunch has reported that Photobucket could sell for as low as USD 60 million.
Ontela is said to be the company interested in acquiring it from News Corp.
This company is backed by Disney supported Steamboat Ventures.
News Corp had acquired Photobucket through their MySpace subsidiary in 2007 [...]
Photobucket might be sold by MySpace
TechCrunch has reported that MySpace is close to spinning off their photo sharing service Photobucket.
They had acquired this service back in 2007. The price-tag was around USD 250 million.
Disney-backed Ontela is said to be the company interested in acquiring Photobucket.
MySpace never made much use of Photobucket. It [...]
Dropico makes sharing photos easy between social networks
Social networking has become one of the most popular activities on the web.
We join all kind of networks for different purposes.
And this becomes a pain to manage in case you have different friends on different networks.
Dropico is one service that aims to make one [...]
MySpace Music launched in Australia and New Zealand
US based social networking service MySpace has announced the launch of their MySpace Music service in Australia and New Zealand.
The service is now offering free streaming music from all the four major music labels.
In these two markets MySpace is working with Apple iTunes to let [...]
MySpace Twitter Sync comes to more countries
I got the mail earlier today about the Twitter connectivity coming to my MySpace page.
I am not a heavy user of MySpace but I did check the feature out and it worked well.
MySpace has expanded the program to cover users in several new countries.
These include: UK, [...]
MySpace is now Twitter friendly!
US based social networking service MySpace has announced that they are now offering two way syncing with the micro-blogging service Twitter.
This feature is being rolled out immediately to all their users around the world.
The company said that this new functionality enables their members to update their Twitter status [...]
MySpace and Last.fm said to be blocked in Turkey
Online sources claim that the Turkish courts have banned MySpace and Last.fm in the country.
The ban is said to be due to music rights violation. YouTube is already banned in the country since some time now.
Webrazzi said in a blog posting:
Turkish internet users can [...]
MySpace confirms iLike deal!
TechCrunch was correct. MySpace is indeed acquiring music recommendation service iLike.
The social networking service would acquire this company which is very popular on their rival platform Facebook.
MySpace has not revealed the financial aspects of this acquisition deal.
iLike founders Ali and Hadi Partovi and Nat Brown would now join MySpace after [...]
Digsby adds global status and link shortening service to instant messaging client
Digsby is gaining popularity in the instant messaging world.
The service has already gained around a million users.
They keep on updating and enhancing the feature set to make it more friendly with social networks.
Some of the new features added to the [...]
