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good parenting

Kid Breaks Vacuum to Play Xbox Instead of Doing Chores; Mom Sells Xbox, Pranks His MySpace

A 13-year-old kid in Virginia has backtalked to his mom for the last time. When he was told to do his chores instead of play Xbox 360, he went and intentionally broke the vacuum cleaner to get out of it. What'd his mom do? Well, she's selling his Xbox and all his games on eBay. And that was before she found out he was surfing porn sites by checking out his browser's cookies. More »

5:01 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Adam Frucci
65,661 views, 131 comments

Latest by wilsmister: this is stupid so what you f'in vaccume broke how are you certain he did it and he's a 13 year old kid you cant just take his stuff away so what you gave birth to him doesn't give you more »

roundup

Afternoon News: Microsoft Shares, BMW Networks, Feet Smell Heavenly and More

• God-Cleaner foot bath claims to draw toxins out of your body through your feet. Cleanliness may be next to Godliness, but in this case it's pretty darn close to Rip-off-iness. [BBG]
• Internet Explorer has fewer security vulnerabilities than Firefox, according to security analyst Jeffery Jones. In other news, Mr. Jones probably knows your bank password. [Ars Technica]
• Microsoft buys file-sharing startup WebFives. File-sharing just got way less fun. [Infoworld]
• BMW testing iDrive, an IP-networked car computer system. Who needs to play license plate bingo when you can have a LAN party? [Autoblog]
• Universal forces their artists to cut songs streamed on MySpace to 90 seconds. But they were just getting to the good part! [Idolator]

4:00 PM on Mon Dec 3 2007
By Benny Goldman
800 views, Comment

pcs

Dumb Crooks Drop Clues In MySpace, Facebook, Second Life

Turns out, it's a dumb idea to post "I just killed two cops" on your MySpace page. That's what some idiot did, and learned the hard way that cops are rediscovering their home computers, and hitting MySpace, Facebook and even Second Life in search of clues. More »

9:18 AM on Tue Nov 6 2007
By Wilson Rothman
7,885 views, 18 comments

social networking

Facebook Vs. MySpace is Apple Vs. Sony?

After word that Apple and Facebook may be teaming up for advanced services and distribution, now we hear that MySpace is partnering with Sony BMG. The agreement will include Sony sharing their IP like music videos, audio and other miscellaneous content with MySpace users through artists' MySpace pages. In return, MySpace will share advertising revenue with Sony. More »

10:23 AM on Wed Oct 17 2007
By Mark Wilson
4,118 views, 14 comments

adult alternative

Facebook and iTunes Teaming Up?

akon-jack1.gifTo fight off the evil empire that is MySpace, tiny entities Facebook and iTunes may be teaming up to bring a musical component to Facebook's offerings (while offering Apple another venue to sell their music). More »

8:17 AM on Mon Oct 8 2007
By Mark Wilson
5,389 views, 30 comments

cellphones

MySpace Mobile is Coming; MySpace Still a Horrible Site

News Corp, the daddy of MySpace, has announced that it's launching a mobile version of the social networking behemoth. It's great news for the people who still use MySpace, although that number is plummeting quickly. I mean, come on, who uses MySpace anymore? It's all spam these days, and the ads are overwhelming. It's a lousy product and that's finally catching up with them, as better-designed competition such as Facebook steals their users by the thousands. But hey, if you want to be able to post a glittery rose animated gif to your friend's comments from anywhere, you'll soon be able to do it. [Yahoo News]

11:17 AM on Mon Sep 24 2007
By Adam Frucci
1,926 views, 21 comments

Latest by MeNotYou: Surfing Myspace=Equvalent to getting your rectum hammered by a 56 y/o transvestite named "Mambo". more »

cellphones

Sidekick Getting MySpace App

You whippersnappers won't have to wait for the Sidekick 4 to get a Hiptop upgrade: Sidekicks are all getting a MySpace app. The app lets you edit your profile, upload photos to their galleries and receive messages and friend requests by push. Why'd they do this? Apparently, 80% of all Sidekick browser clicks belong to MySpace. Just shows you a) what demographics use Sidekicks (kids who don't pay attention in class) and b) that TMO spies on your browsing habits. Tsk, Tsk. TMO is rolling the update starting this week and by the end of October, all Sidekick 3 and Sidekick iD users will have the program loaded on their handsets.
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12:15 AM on Thu Sep 20 2007
By Brian Lam
5,288 views, 11 comments

Latest by n/a: so,is this application a free service or is does it have to be subscribed to with a recurring payment? "TMO is rolling the update starting this week and by the end of October, all Sidekick 3 and Sidekick iD users will more »

a-space

A-Space, MySpace for Feds

What do the the United States' most classified, undercover agents need to do their job better? A little social networking. In order to better share information between various areas of U.S. intelligence, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is setting up a network called A-Space. More »

9:43 AM on Thu Sep 6 2007
By Mark Wilson
3,194 views, 11 comments

Latest by macbigot: My profile address is [www.A-Space.gov] ... I like long walks in the park, dredging lakes, the smell of greenbar paper, stakeouts within walking distance of a Starbucks, editing random Intellipedia articles, and skintight Kevlar. My favorite movie is 'Mr. & more »

cellphones

Helio Adds YouTube Features, New MySpace App

We told you the YouTube on Helio's 3G was free now, but they've gone and added a couple more features to it since Monday. First, Helio users can record videos on their Oceans and upload them to Helio Album. Why's that cool? Because if you configure your Helio Album correctly, it can push those videos to YouTube and Flickr (for pictures, we're assuming). More »

3:40 PM on Fri Jul 6 2007
By Jason Chen
2,964 views, 6 comments

unconfirmed

Sidekick Users Getting MySpace App

If you thought Helio was the only handheld device to have a dedicated MySpace app, think again. T-Mobile and Danger are planning to roll out a Sidekick MySpace app that lets you upload pics, edit profiles and do many of the things kids used to sneak into Apple stores for for. More »

2:45 PM on Mon Jun 18 2007
By Jason Chen
8,590 views, 11 comments

vanity

Apple Blocks MySpace From All Their Stores

Apple is sick and tired of people coming into their stores and hogging their computers for hours at a time while they waste time on MySpace. Apparently people have taken to coming in, taking pictures of themselves with PhotoBooth (the filters are so funny!!!), and uploading them to their profiles. In response, MySpace is now blocked in all Apple stores. More »

11:03 AM on Mon May 28 2007
By Jason Chen
7,291 views, 49 comments

software

"Mad Dog" Murdoch to Teach a Generation How To Read The News

Tickled with the fact that there are over 100 million users of his MySpace networking site, but irked that members of the Ritalin generation only spend like two seconds on their pages each day, Rupert Murdoch (or at least, his company News Corp.) is planning to launch MySpace News. More »

10:11 AM on Thu Apr 19 2007
By Wilson Rothman
4,157 views, 12 comments

home entertainment

Everyone and Their Mother Teams Up to Form GooTube Competitor



The equivalent of the 1992 US Men's Olympic basketball team has just gotten together to develop a competitor to GooTube. That's right, NBC, Fox, AOL, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo! have united Captain Planet style and formed a web video site not made up of crappy clips people don't want to watch. Broken by CNBC—with snide commentary about Fox and Google thrown in —this site has already secured advertisers and will theoretically reach 90 percent of US Internet users. More »

12:58 PM on Thu Mar 22 2007
By Jason Chen
3,108 views, 28 comments

Latest by obbie: what would have been great is if the clip up top was on youtube more »

home entertainment

MySpace News to Take On Digg

MySpace is planning on launching MySpace News in the second quarter of this year, a new service that will combine the news aggregation of Google News with the community rating system of Digg. More »

3:30 PM on Fri Mar 9 2007
By Adam Frucci
1,550 views, 5 comments

home entertainment

Movie to Be Created by MySpace Users; It Will Suck

It what is destined to become the biggest failure since Waterworld, British MySpace users will collectively create a movie for consumption by the general public. It is speculated that it will include a lot of sparkles, 5 seconds of crappy music at the start of every scene, and be written by a collection of half-retarded, ADD-affected preteens. Oh, and the moral of it will be about avoiding pedophiles, just to please lawyers and parents. More »

5:45 PM on Tue Feb 6 2007
By Adam Frucci
295 views, 15 comments

pcs

New Parent Substitute Available: XGate Router

Coincidentally dropping with a new study showing more kids are peeping boobies online the XGate router plays off of the paranoia that everyone on MySpace is a pedophile, aiming to look over your kids' shoulders so you don't have to. More »

5:00 PM on Mon Feb 5 2007
By Matt Buchanan
232 views, 4 comments

cellphones

Cingular Adds MySpace To Its Cellphones, Tom Rejoices

Cingular Wireless customers will now be able to screw around on their MySpace accounts right from their cellphones. Sure, you've been able to do this for a while now on Helio cellphones, but Cingular likes to pretend that this is some sort of groundbreaking announcement. Users will even be able to take pictures with their cellphones and upload the pics directly to MySpace. Simply amazing. More »

9:05 AM on Mon Dec 18 2006
By Gizloco
1,449 views, 8 comments

cellphones

Deal: Get Helio With No Contract

Got MySpace? Then you might want to check out Helio's new promotion. Current users of the social network site can sign up for Helio service without having to sign a standard 2-year contract. And since this promotion also has no termination fees, so you're free to try out Helio and cancel it in a month if you choose. More »

6:09 PM on Mon Aug 7 2006
By Jason Chen
6,786 views, 7 comments