MySpace deal looks to Facebook to gain and retain users

By Maggie ShielsTechnology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley

The new service will start rolling out to users globally right away

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The once dominant MySpace has turned to the company that stole its crown, Facebook, for help to drive users to its ailing site.

The two launched Mashup with Facebook, to let MySpace users log in to their Facebook accounts through their MySpace page.

This means users can port over their likes and interests listed on Facebook.

In turn users will get a stream of entertainment content based on these preferences.

"We feel this is a complementary service to Facebook," said Mike Jones, MySpace chief executive.

"This new feature is a great illustration of our strategy around social entertainment and enabling the real-time stream."

MySpace is among more than a million websites letting Facebook members extend their social graph on the world's biggest social network to other parts of the web.

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Facebook revamps messaging system

Continue reading the main storyfriends and family.Facebook's current messaging system can only be used within Facebook

Confounding rumours about what Facebook would announce, founder Mark Zuckerberg said the system was "not e-mail".

Instead, he said, it was modelled on instant messaging systems and will route messages to people no matter how they are using Facebook.

"It will handle messages across all the ways you want to communicate," said Mr Zuckerberg.

Fast friends

"This is not an e-mail killer," said Mr Zuckerberg. "It is a messaging system that includes e-mail as part of it."

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Facebook to launch email service, would you use it?

foxprovidence | November 15, 2010 - The grapevine is abuzz with rumors that Facebook will be launching its own webmail to compete directly with GMail and Yahoo Mail.

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By all accounts, Facebook is rolling out an email service. It’s pretty much the most-leaked Facebook announcement I’ve ever seen, actually, so I’d be shocked if that wasn’t the case. Not sure what they’ll call it yet.

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Internet pioneer Vint Cerf warns over address changes.

The internet could face years of instability as it moves to a new addressing system, one of the network's original architects has warned.

Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet, spoke as the UK was urged to begin using the new addressing system.

With current addresses (pic) due to run out in 2012, nations and businesses must get on with switching, said Mr Cerf.

During the switch internet links could become unreliable, making sites and services hard to reach, Mr Cerf said.

"This has to happen or the internet will stop growing or will not be growable," he said of the move to the addressing system.

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Facebook eyes mobile domination.

Facebook has set out a strategy it hopes will make it as dominant in mobiles as it is in social networks.

At the heart of its plans is making the mobile phone a more social experience and offering shopping discounts.

The company announced the opportunity for businesses to offer deals to users via their phone.

Facebook also revealed plans for a single sign-on that lets users log in to other phone applications with their Facebook name and password.

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The full list of changes and new things is listed at the beta page, but what strikes us in a quick look at a live-booting beta (for which we recommend Unetbootin and a USB thumb drive) are the changes to Ubuntu One,

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Video chat and video conferencing soon on Facebook

Facebook and Skype deal to dial friends and family:

Together the deal means access to around 1 billion users

Skype is integrating with Facebook to make it easier to call and video chat with friends and family on the social network.

The deal comes amid fevered rumours that Facebook plans to launch a phone of its own.

Meanwhile Skype is gearing up for a $100m (£62m) share issue.

"The essence of the Skype experience is communicating with the people you care about," said Rick Osterloh, Skype's head of consumer products.

The new Skype for Windows will include a Facebook tab. This means that for the first time Skype users can keep up-to-date and interact with their Facebook news feed including posting status updates, commenting and liking directly from Skype

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Digital Frontiers: The Stuxnet Worm

VOAvideo | October 14, 2010 - The Stuxnet worm has been neutralized, but not before it may have done its damage. But what's to come? More attacks, and more sophisticated cyber-weapons, are safe bets.

Facebook's Older Users

CBS | October 11, 2010 - Internet users 65 and older are the fastest growing group on Facebook. Katie Couric comments that while 18-to-29-year-olds are still the heaviest users, many older Americans are now catching up.