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In Hindsight: Apple + Beatles; Facebook + mail (or MySpace) and other mashups – San Jose Mercury News

Palo Alto social networking powerhouse Facebook unveiled its new modern Messages service. “This is not e-mail,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebookers insisted, but the service comes with ” @facebook.com ” “not e-mail” addresses. “We don’t think a …

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MySpace Tests Audio Ads With TargetSpot

For most people, listening to music online is terribly convenient, and the occasional audio ad shouldn’t represent a deal breaker.  MySpace may be making a smart move, then, as it’s begun testing 30-second ads with help from an Internet radio advertising company called TargetSpot.

MySpace LogoThe end result isn’t too different from what fans of Yahoo Music or Pandora – or even regular radio listeners – are already used to.  MySpace members just have to tolerate a short ad, and then they’re free to continue on their figurative way, listening to a number of songs before getting stuck with another commercial.

MySpace, Chief Product Officer May Part Ways

A high-ranking MySpace executive might be ready to depart, according to a new report.  Rumor has it that Chief Product Officer Jason Hirschhorn, who’s been with the company for less than a year, is making his way towards the exit.

This story appears to deserve some heavy disclaimers; since it began to spread, Hirschhorn wrote on his MySpace page, "i love fiction," and classified his mood as "amused."

He also linked to a clip of Philip Seymour Hoffman lecturing about gossip (as Father Flynn in the movie Doubt) from both his MySpace and Twitter accounts.