Justin.tv, the largest online community for people to broadcast, watch and interact around live video and one of the top 5 online video site, has added support for Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. These integrations allow anyone to log in through their social media accounts, push status updates about what they are watching back to Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook, and engage in real-time conversations about content with their friends on Justin.tv.
All channel pages on Justin.tv now include four tabs across the top of the chat window: Chat, Twitter, MySpace and Facebook. In addition to chatting with other Justin.tv users through the Chat tab, users can click on the other tabs at any time to activate the integration features, which are detailed below:
MySpace, the world’s premiere social portal and Citysearch, a leading online local guide, create a new social directory for every small business in America - ‘MySpace Local’ allowing users to review, rate, and share content from businesses nationwide.
The popularity and near necessity of social media sites has grown tremendously in the last few years, helping small businesses make connections, giving freelancers and students the chance to network with people they’d never be able to meet otherwise, and allow a place for all kinds of interest groups to chat and make friends online–from gardeners to book lovers to sports junkies.
Meebo aggregates real-time interactions for friends on MySpace and Facebook within Meebo’s 40 million-plus user community. Meebo the first web application that enables real-time access to the world’s most popular social networks and instant messaging services.
MySpace and Facebook users can visit meebo.com and interact with their social network friends in a single interface, side-by-side with instant messaging buddies, no software or downloads required.
MySpace users will now be able to view videos they’ve uploaded or have marked as a favorite on their mobile.
In order to meet ever-increasing video demand, MySpace utilizes RipCode’s On-Demand Video Transcoding technology to optimize mobile video delivery and give users an improved mobile video experience.
Courtney Holt has been appointed as President of MySpace Music, the world’s most popular music community. Beginning on January 5, 2009, Holt will be responsible for overseeing the growth and development of the MySpace Music brand and its global operations.
Holt brings extensive music industry knowledge and relationships to MySpace Music, as well a deep understanding of music product, promotion, and marketing that will serve to solidify the company’s position as a global leader in the digital music space as well as the platform of choice for artists at every level.
Since the MySpace for BlackBerry Smartphones application’s launch on November 13, 2008 there have been more than 400,000 downloads which represents an all-time high for both MySpace and RIM in terms of first week application downloads.
Through the MySpace for BlackBerry smartphones application, users collectively sent and received more than 15 million messages and updated their mood and status over two million times in the first week.
April 8th, 2009 by Social Guy
