MySpace

Taking advantage of a lull in tech news this week, the company that just bought Myspace unveils a new strategy to marketers and advertisers in New York.

MySpace still corners the market in up-and-coming band pages. Can Timberlake leverage that role to success?

We’ve all had our youthful indiscretions. That time you “borrowed” dad’s car without asking and wrapped it around a pole. The time you drank too much at your friend’s wedding and puked all over the bridegroom’s shoes. The day you signed up for a MySpace account.

Someday Rupert Murdoch may laugh about this whole Myspace thing. But probably not right now.

News Corp. is looking for a partner -- any partner -- to help it run Myspace.

New research concludes that college students who use Facebook and other technology platforms to proclaim their awesomeness -- rather than connecting with other human beings -- exhibit classic signs of narcissism.

If you enjoy the unfolding drama of MySpace's slow descent into obscurity, you'll appreciate the latest stats. According to TechCrunch and comScore, MySpace traffic dropped 14.4 percent between January and February 2011, from 73 million visitors to 63 million visitors. That's a 43.2 percent overall drop in the course of one year -- a never-clearer sign that News Corp.'s once-popular social network is twirling down the toilet at the speed of light.

Microblogging service Twitter, which is ambitiously trying to grow revenue, is expected by Internet research firm EMarketer to more than triple advertising sales this year to $150 million.

Apparently Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. isn't all that into "agile and flexible." Or maybe it's the "unprofitable" part of MySpace that's prompting its parent company to unload the troubled former leader in social networking.

Three years ago Myspace was on top of the social networking world. Now it's fighting for survival. There's a lesson in this for other Internet properties, including Facebook.

2010 had its share of failures and (some thankful) endings. Here we explore some of the more interesting tech fails, social network bombs and bid farewell to the world's oldest Twitter user.

The Internet generation is stunningly disloyal. Brands mean very little to us. Our parents might never have bought anything other than a Ford car, or a Westinghouse refrigerator, but we switch online services without a second thought.