MySpace and The Wall Street Journal will be sending one MySpace user to the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland as a “Citizen Journalist“.

The “MySpace Citizen Journalist” winner, chosen by a panel of experts, will join the Davos press corps and leverage the MySpace platform to report on conference news and interview world leaders about issues relevant to the global MySpace community. This year MySpace will expand the contestant pool and accept entries from users in the United States and the United Kingdom.

“Recognizing the continued influence of social media, the World Economic Forum has extended a call to action to our online community at MySpace. This year’s theme, ‘Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign, and Rebuild,’ represents the diversity of voices at Davos, and we are thrilled that MySpace users can play such a large part,” said Adrian Monck, Head of Communications of the World Economic Forum.

The “MySpace Citizen Journalist” competition encourages users in the US and the UK to upload a video at “MySpace Journal” explaining why they should be chosen to travel to Davos and represent the global MySpace community as the special correspondent.

A panel of expert judges including Robert Thomson (Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal), Adrian Monck (Managing Director and Head of Communications of the World Economic Forum), Owen Van Natta (CEO of MySpace), Rebekah Brooks (CEO of News International) and Rebecca McQuigg (2009 winner of “MySpace Journal” contest) will select the winner while the MySpace community rates their favorite submissions.

Applicants must explain why they deserve to report from the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos as well as answer one of the below questions:

• Name two issues – one global and one local – in which you’ve been actively engaged over the past year. What have they taught you about your impact in the world?
• Which country caught your attention most this year? What are the primary issues facing its citizens and how would you resolve them?
• What pressing global issue has been underreported? Why is the international community neglecting the topic? How would you draw attention to mobilize support?

“MySpace Citizen Journalist” winner will receive:

• All expenses paid travel to/from Davos, Switzerland
• Invitations to the Young Global Leaders opening conference and various media events
• Attendance at private meetings with editors from The Wall Street Journal and News Corp executives
• The opportunity to document the experience in written and video blogs on MySpace and The Wall Street Journal online
• Syndication of their MySpace blog via WSJ.com

MySpace launches a suite of new API that allow developers to leverage public MySpace data and create innovative applications to socialize content on and off MySpace. Opening up access to publicly available real-time data (such as status updates, music, photos, videos) MySpace reinforces its commitment to powering the real-time social Web and the development of open standards.

Mike Jones, Chief Operating Officer at MySpace, is speaking at LeWeb today to share MySpace’s real-time Web strategy and efforts to empower developers with the new APIs. Based on open standards, the new free-to-use APIs include:

Real-Time Stream API: Allows the full MySpace activity stream to be pushed to third party sites in real-time. The API includes granular filters to control the amount of data seen. Google, GroovyCorp, and OneRiot are among the first to implement this new API.

Status and Mood Commenting API: Enables third party sites to ingest MySpace status and mood updates and allows people to comment from those sites. Comments appear back in the user’s MySpace activity stream, and users can interact with that stream without leaving the third party site.

Open Search API: Allows third party sites to include public MySpace profile information in search results. Users can search for people by name, profile type (e.g., musician, celebrity, comedian) or email address and filter search results by gender, age and location.

Photo Upload API: Makes it easy for users to upload photos to MySpace from third party sites or MySpace Apps. The API enables creation of public or private photo albums.

Updated Version of Post To/Share on MySpace: Facilitates the sharing of content from third party sites with a MySpace user’s friends. When a user posts content from another site, it goes directly to his/her MySpace activity stream, creating a link back to the third party site.

To encourage innovation from developers, MySpace also announced the “MySpace Developer Challenge.” The competition, which kicks off January 4, will award developers who create the most interesting use of the new APIs with cash prizes and promotion on MySpace. Our judging panel will include Mike Jones – MySpace Chief Operating Officer, Ron Conway – Founder and Managing Partner of Angel Investors LP, David Glazer – Engineering Director at Google and Robert Scoble – Renowned blogger and tech evangelist. Winners will be announced at the Game Developers Conference on March 10, 2010 in San Francisco.

MySpace launches the next phase of the company’s music offering with a wave of new products and tools now available to artists and fans. Today MySpace begins the global rollout of a new comprehensive MySpace Music Video experience, the MySpace Artist Dashboard – a free data and analytics tool for artists globally – and the ability for users to purchase music on iTunes.

The launch of MySpace Music Videos offers fans one of the most comprehensive online collections of music videos available anywhere. MySpace’s Music Video catalogue includes fully licensed music video content from all of the company’s major and independent label partners.

Product functionality of MySpace Music Videos includes:

• New Music Video hub within MySpace Music
• Music Video recommendations based on what your friends are watching
• Browse via A-Z Video search for easy consumption, discovery, and sharing
• New Video player with dynamically targeted “Buy” buttons provided as part of Auditude’s video ad management platform
• Entire artist Music Video catalogues available in artist music players (alongside “Albums” tab)
• iLike now features MySpace’s Music Video catalogue within all partner websites

Also today, MySpace Music introduced the MySpace Artist Dashboard in beta – a free, comprehensive data dashboard for all artists and labels globally which unlocks detailed analytics about their content within the MySpace community. Every global artist with a MySpace profile will have free access to the Artist Dashboard starting today.

Product functionality of the new MySpace Artist Dashboard includes:

• Unlimited access to charts, graphs, and snapshots of MySpace Music data for all global artists
• Data includes fan geography, song plays, profile views, friend count, and profile visitors
• Trending data available for 7 day and 30 day glances
• iLike integration into MySpace Artist Dashboard provides top-level data from iLike’s partner networks
• Artist Dashboard is available in 17 languages in over 20 territories

Additionally, MySpace Music users can now purchase and download music on iTunes in addition to Amazon MP3, and MP3 ringtones via Jamster.

Combo Adds is the first friend-adding website of its kind that offers a free, user-friendly interface to market profiles on multiple social networks at the same time. Users will have access to an effective way to promote profiles, increase views, subscriptions, followers, and friends without spam. The VIP points program entices users to add friends and click links that drive traffic to profiles on some of the most popular social networking sites.

Combo Adds streamlines the MySpace friend-adding process by
allowing users to accrue points while adding one, five, or 25 friends at the same time. MySpace imposes daily adding limits on how many friend requests users can send, but no limit on how many friend requests users can receive. It’s fast and easy to meet the daily quota of friend requests with Combo Adds and even easier to receive incoming requests 24-7. Combo Adds even offers the option to search by interests, gender, age, and applications. By targeting popular apps like Mafia Wars and Fashion Wars players can also quickly build their teams.

Combo Adds helps businesses target customers via social networks and grow their fan base. Filmmakers boost video views, bands increase song plays, products build popularity, and online networkers link to individuals with similar interests. Businesses can capitalize on the social networking movement now more than ever.

Combo Adds hosts profile links driving traffic to MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Yuwie, Youtube, Blogspot, Wordpress, Tumblr, Squidoo, Mashable, Orkut, Bebo, LiveJournal, Ning, and more. Combo Adds also hosts monthly contests that feature users on the front page of the site for added traffic.

Gigya, the leading technology for connecting content and consumers with the social web, release its Socialize technology, now available as a module for Drupal. The Socialize module was developed in conjunction with Acquia, the enterprise guide to the Drupal Social Publishing System.

The new Socialize module enables site owners to authenticate users with a single point of access to Facebook Connect, MySpaceID, Sign in with Twitter as well as OpenID providers like Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and AOL Mail. Publishers using Socialize have increased site registrations by more than 30%.

“The module makes it easy for any site built on Drupal to add powerful social features, including pushing content and user activity out beyond the site and into the social networks, driving interactivity and viral promotion.” said Rooly Eliezerov, President and co-founder, Gigya.

Gigya’s new Socialize Module for Drupal makes it easy for Drupal site owners to:

1. Enable users to link existing accounts with social network and OpenID identities, and personalize the user experience by making it easy for sites to integrate user profile and social graph data.

2. Increase user acquisition by enabling users to invite friends to the site, or to share site content or a specific event. For example, using the Socialize module users can choose to invite their Facebook friends to comment on a new post they created.

3. Increase site traffic through viral promotion, enabling users to send status updates, tweets and newsfeed events to their social networks. The Gigya Socialize module has been fully integrated with Drupal’s user action and trigger core modules so Drupal site owners can configure the viral promotion channels to work dynamically.

4. Easily configure the user experience, design, and module functionality using the Drupal administration panel.

The new Gigya Socialize Drupal module is fully configurable and installs in minutes with no programming. The module is available, free of charge, on Drupal.org at http://drupal.org/project/gigya.

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:

Facebook

After clicking on the Facebook tab at the top of the chat window, users can log in and update their status message about the content they are viewing. Users can then chat with all Facebook users on this channel, or, by clicking the “Friends” tab, they can chat with only their Facebook friends. Chat messages will update in real time, but will not update a user’s Facebook status.

Twitter

After clicking on the Twitter tab at the top of the chat window, users can log in and update their Twitter status about the content they are viewing. By clicking on the “Following” tab, users can filter just the messages from those Twitter users they are following. Hash tags for Justin.tv and the channel will be appended to every Twitter status update. These updates will appear in aggregate on Twitter by going to search.twitter.com and searching for “#jtv or #[channelname].”

MySpace

After clicking on the MySpace tab at the top of the chat window, users will be prompted to sign in and update their MySpace status. Users can then engage in real-time chat with other MySpace users who are viewing the same content. Chat messages will update in real time, but will not update a user’s MySpace status.

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.

MySpace Local marries Citysearch’s database of local businesses with the nation’s largest and most engaged social community to create new tools for users and small businesses to connect. Coors and Outback Steakhouse are the inaugural brand sponsors for the launch of MySpace Local.

“MySpace Local represents both an evolution in social discovery and a revolution of our larger content strategy.” said Chris DeWolfe, CEO and co-Founder of MySpace.

‘MySpace Local’ empowers users to discover new businesses, create reviews and ratings, and share their experiences with their MySpace community. Any rating, review, or recommendation surfaces into a user’s ‘Friend Update’ feed enabling all users to discover content within the context of their personal community.

MySpace Local: Small Business Listing Pages

• MySpace has leveraged Citysearch’s database which includes major cities nationwide
• Citysearch businesses are available on MySpace Local via small business listing pages
• Small business categories available at launch are: (1) Restaurants, (2) Bars, and (3) Nightlife
• Listing pages empower users to rate, review, and share content in real time
• Users can access business photos, menu, videos, maps, and hours of operation
• Viral functionality includes allowing users to add the business to their profile, share the listing, and bookmark the business
• Business listing pages include a user review module
• Display offers for coupons on the local business listing pages

MySpace will continue to roll out new features and functionalities that focus on providing the best social directory available to local businesses and users 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.

There is a dangerous and corrupt side to social media creators and users; however, and the ability to create fake profiles and violate privacy and copyright rules is still more than possible. Read below for 25 of the most shocking crimes in social media history.

Copyright, Hacking and Blackmail

From Facebook’s big lawsuits to MySpace hackers demanding pay-back from celebrities, these copyright, privacy and blackmail cases can get ugly.

1. ConnectU vs. Facebook: Facebook founders Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, Andrew McCollum and Christopher Hughes got in big trouble in 2007 when their former Harvard friends filed a lawsuit claiming that Facebook was a rip-off of their brand ConnectU. Zuckerberg did programming work for ConnectU during its start up and is accused of stealing the business model and basic codes to form Facebook. Because Facebook is such a popular social media site, the case garnered a lot of attention, but ConnectU’s charges of copyright infringement didn’t hold much weight, since “the majority of the allegations date back to the days before either Facebook or ConnectU was a formal corporation,” according to CNET UK. In April 2008, though, Facebook settled, awarding ConnectU founders “an undisclosed sum of cash and stock,” Boston.com reported.
2. Miss New Jersey blackmail case: During the summer of 2007, then Miss New Jersey Amy Polumbo was scandalized when private Facebook photos were published in tabloids. The pictures were acquired as part of a blackmail attempt and featured Polumbo in PG-13 poses with her boyfriend and drinking at parties. The Miss America organization did not decide to dethrone Polumbo, but she decided to release the photos herself anyway, to clear the air.
3. Facebook vs. Montreal spammer: In November 2008, Facebook won its CAN-SPAM lawsuit against Canadian Adam Guerbuez, a spammer who clogged account holders’ pages with pornographic websites and other unsavory pitches. Guerbuez and the 26 others accused of spamming Facebook users were found guilty, and Facebook was awarded $873 million.
4. Chang v. Virgin Mobile USA, LLC: In January 2009, a Texas teenager and her mother sued Virgin Mobile for using one of her personal photos uploaded on Flickr for an Australian advertisement. The lawsuit insisted that Allison Chang’s right of publicity had been exploited and that the use of her photo violated the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license she attached to her photo. The case was thrown out due to a discrepancy in jurisdiction, and no court could decide where to hold the case.
5. Allison Stokke vs. WithLeather.com: Allison Stokke was just a regular California pole vaulter ready to start college when she became a sex symbol and Internet sensation after the blog WithLeather.com posted her photo. The photo in question was taken during a competition and showed Stokke resting with her pole across her shoulder in a skimpy, but standard, track and field uniform. After the photo was featured online by various bloggers, Stokke received thousands of MySpace messages and e-mails and had a competition video posted on YouTube. The Washington Post reports that the photo eventually found its way to Matt Ufford of WithLeather.com, who wrote, “meet pole vaulter Allison Stokke. . . . Hubba hubba and other grunting sounds.” The original photographer threatened to sue Ufford and someone even created a fake Facebook page for Stokke–which was eventually taken down–but no criminal charges could ever be filed.
6. Twitter hijacking: Twitter users generally enjoy a pretty straightforward social media experience, but a scam in 2008 hacked major celebrity accounts, including Bill O’Reilly, Barack Obama and Britney Spears. CNN anchor Rick Sanchez’s account was also hacked and featured fake tweets that said “i am high on crack right now might not be coming into work today.” Gawker’s ValleyWag points out that this scam was virtually pointless, as the hackers didn’t profit financially from the phishing.
7. Facebook phishing scam: This phishing scam posted messages on users’ profiles warning friends that they were going to delete their profiles and that friends should click on a link to the new profile. The new profile link, however, was really a fake login page that tricked Facebook users into logging in and letting hackers steal their information.
8. Soulja Boy vs. MySpace hackers: Soulja Boy got mad when his MySpace was hacked and e-mail password was published online. The hackers left obscene messages on his MySpace page “where Soulja Boy purportedly declared his homosexuality” and insulted fans. The rapper was scammed by members of 4chan, who demanded that Soulja Boy pay them $2,500 “in order to regain control over his account,” Cyber Crimes reports. Soulja Boy’s record company contacted MySpace, who returned his account.
9. Miley Cyrus MySpace hacker: Teen actress and singer Miley Cyrus has had her share of scandals, and when her MySpace page was hacked and photos of her midriff were circulated around the Internet, parents got mad. But whatever you think of Miley, her hacker Josh Holly was the real one to blame and was eventually caught in an FBI raid on October 2008.
10. Shaun Harrison and Saverio Mondelli: Long Island friends Shaun Harrison and Saverio Mondelli were caught when they tried to track MySpace users through e-mail by creating their own code, demanding that the social media network pay them $150,000 as a consulting fee. Under their plan, MySpace users would be able to view the IP and e-mail addresses of all the visitors to their profile, but MySpace’s terms of agreement prevents that sort of monitoring. MSNBC reports that “two counts of attempted extortion and another illegal computer access count were dropped in the deal,” however.
11. Universal vs. MySpace: In November 2006, Universal Music Group sued MySpace for copyright infringement. Universal claimed that “that Myspace has looked the other way as users unlawfully uploaded copyright music videos,” and facilitated the easy spread of unlawful music sharing across the site, according to CNET News. Although MySpace had already been trying to cut back on copyright infringement for music sharing, Universal believed that MySpace was still exploiting artists and the company.
12. Facebook v. Power.com: This lawsuit is shocking according to TechDirt because it simply doesn’t make sense. Facebook sued Power.com, a social networking aggregator that lets users manage all of their social media profiles at once, for copyright and trademark infringement, unlawful competition and violation of the computer fraud and abuse act. According to TechDirt, Power.com does not try to trick anyone to believing they are using the original Facebook and actually serves to “actually improve the value of Facebook, rather than diminish it.”

Sex Crimes, Assault and Murder

Tragically, social media sites like MySpace serve as an easy venue for sex predators and bullies to track their victims. These grisly crimes have affected innocent teenagers and kids.

1. Megan Meier suicide: The tragic suicide of Missouri teenager Megan Meier was a top news story in 2006 and 2007. Meier was the victim of a prank that involved a classmate’s mother, Lori Drew, who set up a fake MySpace account and pretended to be a boy named Josh, who befriended Meier online. Drew apparently wanted to know whether or not Meier was gossiping about her own daughter and became close with her under false pretenses. “Josh” eventually said “he didn’t want to be [Meier's] friend anymore, that he had heard she wasn’t nice to her friends,” according to Fox News. “Josh” continued to post messages taunting Meier, even calling her “fat” and a “slut.” Meier hanged herself in her bedroom, and six weeks later, her parents found out about the fraudulent MySpace account. In May 2008, Drew was indicted on three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress, and one count of criminal conspiracy, according to Wikipedia.
2. Middletown, CT, sex assaults: In 2006, seven teenage girls from Middletown, CT, reported to authorities that they had had consensual sex or engaged in sexual relations “with men who turned out to be older than they claimed,” according to MSNBC. The girls, all under the age of 18 and as young as 12, met the men on MySpace.
3. Kara Borden and David Ludwig: Pennsylvania teenager Kara Borden had to run away from home after she watched her boyfriend, David Ludwig shoot and kill her parents. The pair were tracked down by people who found their MySpace profiles and Xanga blog, and left obscene messages on their pages. Both Kara and David’s social media pages served as a platform for the public and journalists to speculate over their innocence or guilt.
4. Doe v. MySpace: In this case, a minor and her mother sued MySpace after she was sexually assaulted by a nineteen-year-old man she contacted on the social media site. The lawsuit claimed that MySpace did not support or protect minors from predators, but it was eventually dismissed from Texas and New York federal courts.
5. Judy Cajuste murder: Judy Cajuste’s murder is another example of MySpace predators who take advantage of vulnerable teens online. In January 2006, 14-year-old Cajuste was strangled to death in New Jersey and dumped in a dumpster. Friends believe Cajuste had already met the man offline before he allegedly killed her, saying that “she felt comfortable with him,” already.
6. The Olivia Haters Club: The new phenomenon called cyber bullying was the focus of a thirteen-year-old girl’s existence in 2006. Olivia Gardner has epilepsy, and inspired a mean girls’ club called “Olivia Haters” that kids from her middle school set up on MySpace. Gardner’s family could not charge the girls with any sort of crime, but it was still a shocking revelation for them.
7. Teens charged with child pornography: Teenagers aren’t immune from being charged with child pornography, and in March 2006 in Providence, RI, 19-year-old Elizabeth Muller and a 16-year-old girl were charged for uploading pornographic pictures of themselves on MySpace.
8. Lewis & Clark College sex assault: The campus at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR, became involved in a complicated sex assault case after sophomore Helen Hunter reported being sexually assaulted. In response to the assault, students set up a Facebook group that gossiped about the case and posted hostile messages towards her alleged assaulter, Morgan Shaw-Fox, even though Hunter never submitted a formal complaint. After Shaw-Fox made his own complaint about the Facebook page, he was suspended but never charged with a crime.
9. Michael Macalindong blackmail and child pornography: In October 2008, Michael Macalindong was sentenced to 34 years in federal prison for posing as a teenage girl, soliciting a teenage boy, and trying to blackmail him for not posting sexual videos of himself on Facebook. After striking up a friendship with the boy, the Chicago Tribune reports that Macalindong, 25, “told the teen he could have sex with her” but only if the teen had sex with her male friend first. Macalindong was that male “friend,” police said.
10. Fontana, CA MySpace sting: California teenagers who set up a fake MySpace profile as a joke ended up luring a sex predator and having him arrested. The boys created a fake profile for a 15-year-old girl, which attracted a man who sent sexually explicit message to “her.” Eventually, the boys agreed to meet the man in a park, “and, when the man arrived, they called police,” according to MSNBC.
11. Andrew Lubrano: Wired writer Kevin Poulsen created a code that would find sex predators on MySpace, a controversial tactic that actually helped catch Andrew Lubrano. Lubrano was arrested and convicted of sex crimes in the 1980s and 90s but was eventually released. In 2005, he signed up for MySpace, where he found teenage boys to “friend.” Poulsen directed Long Island police to Lubrano’s page, letting them conduct an investigation, which results in his arrest.
12. Amanda Knoble shooting: Cyber bullying became an almost-deadly reality for Amanda Knoble in 2008, when another teenage girl, 15-year-old Andrea Haskins, threatened to kill her in a message on MySpace. Haskins shot Knoble in the leg after sending her the message and was charged as an adult for attempted first-degree intentional homicide.
13. Florida teens beat-down: This serious beating of a teenage girl started on MySpace. The victim’s father, reports ABC News 24, says the girls wanted to create a video that would become popular on You Tube. But the mother of one of the arrested teens says the victim provoked the attack by threatening and insulting the girls on My Space. The victim was jumped by six girls who gave her a concussion, bruises and injured her eye and ear while two boys stood watch. All eight teenagers were arrested.

About the Author : Laura Milligan, Masters in Criminal Justice.

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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.

The massive reach of MySpace and Facebook, combined with the established instant messaging services, gives Meebo the unprecedented ability to enable real-time social interactions for the majority of US Internet users.

In addition, Meebo powers instant messaging for online communities via Meebo Community IM, and real-time access to those networks will also be available via Meebo. A sample of Meebo Community IM partners signed to date include Bleacher Report, Flixster, myYearbook, Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group’s AddictingGames, OrangeShark, Piczo, PerfSpot, and Sugar Publishing.

“People have friends across a variety of different social networks, and Meebo is a place where they can come for real-time social interactions with these friends, at any time.” said Seth Sternberg, CEO and co-founder, Meebo.

MySpace, the world’s premier social network, has partnered with Meebo to enable real-time social interactions between MySpace users via Meebo. The partnership offers MySpace users the ability to log onto and use MySpaceIM through Meebo in a safe and secure fashion.

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.

MySpace Mobile users across the globe will now be able to enjoy MySpace video content from their video enabled mobile devices. The first social networking portal to launch video streaming for mobile, MySpace’s beta mobile video initiative is committed to ensuring the best user experience by providing the highest quality video for mobile viewing.

The MySpace Mobile site (m.myspace.com) receives approx 3 billion worldwide page views per month from more than 10 million monthly unique users. Combining the popularity of the MySpace mobile site with its vast online video library creates a compelling and dynamic mobile environment.

“As the volume of video grows and the number of mobile devices supporting video continues to expand, companies have to find alternative solutions to deliver content to their customers across multiple screens,” said Brendon Mills, CEO of RipCode.

MySpace mobile video quality, as with all mobile services, is dependent on individual device capabilities as well as network speed and connection.

Since the MySpace for BlackBerry Smartphones application’s launch on November 13 , 2008 there have been more than 400000 downloads.