Gadgetopia

The Battle to Control Obama s Myspace: This is a fascinating story about the fight for Barack Obama s MySpace page. What s interesting, besides the basic conflict, is that this portends the new domain fight: sub-URLs, particularly on MySpace. This wasn t a fight for barackobama.com, this was a fight for myspace.com/barackobama. It s ...

MySpace to send AMBER alerts on U.S. profiles: This is a good idea. I've always through that Amber Alerts to everyone's cell phone would be handy too. Popular online social network MySpace said Tuesday it will begin sending online alerts to users in certain U.S. regions to help find missing ...

www.myspace.com/crab: Honda is using MySpace for an impromptu ad tie-in with their Element. There's a profile for the crab ("Maybe little pinch?") from the ad, which I find hysterical (you can view the video on the site). Trivia: the voice of the Honda Element is Owen Wilson. This is one ...

Students give up social networks for Lent: This is just sad. For some, it's chocolate. For others, it's coffee or cigarettes. But as this Easter approaches, some young and devout Christians are anxious to return to what they gave up for Lent: Internet sites Facebook and MySpace.

Osama bin Laden fan clubs build online communities: Well, not MySpace specifically, but give them time. Al-Qaeda sympathizers are using Orkut, a popular, worldwide Internet service owned by Google, to rally support for Osama bin Laden, share videos and Web links promoting terrorism and recruit non-Arabic-speaking Westerners, according to terrorism ...

Auto club fires 27 in message board crackdown: I'm sure this will get picked up as a free speech issue by someone. However, like the guy who got fired for writing about the bookstore where he worked, I have this to say: just because you have the right to say ...

Hacking John McCain: This is pretty funny. If you visit John McCain's MySpace page (as of 9am PST Tuesday morning), you will notice an interesting announcement from him. He's apparently reversed his position on gay marriage as well as revealed a bias towards attractive lesbians. Why would a presidential candidate ...

Way Too Good for Facebook or MySpace?: I knew it was going to come to this at some point social networking sites are getting more exclusive. This article profiles aSmallWorld which is the apparent king of the elite social networking sites. Membership in these networks, not unlike the exclusive ...