MSPLinks.com – Boon or Bane?
Some of you might know this already but for those who don’t…MySpace launched msplinks.com a few months ago – an effort to track and curb spammy links.
MySpace reveals that the purpose of msplinks is to track and filter outgoing links as well as any embedded content in the comments sections. The owner of Msplinks.com is Mark Monitor which offers fraud prevention service.
Outgoing links are being converted to a very long url. Eg. www.msplinks.com/kjladksjklalkdjalksjdaksdjhjf$ to help in tracking. Msplinks links are being applied specifically to the comments section and this means that MySpace is serious in combating comment spamming which is a common problem. Only future links will be filtered by msplinks – backdated links will not be affected.
A big congrats to MySpace for making an effort to combat comment spam 
In a nutshell, MSPLinks.com is a boon to the legitimate and honest myspace users and a bane to comment spammers.
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McCain making the Teens Bored on MySpace and MTV?
Boring! First it was John Edwards, then Barak Obama and now it’s McCain’s turn? MySpace is suppose to be a fun site but now it’s like they are trying to instill political values into teens. It’s not bad but it’ll just make us boring and ruin the fun. Teens don’t care about politics and they definitely are not interested with the Presidential Dialogue series.
Maybe a new social networking site that is based solely for political gains should be created. PoliticSpace.com anyone???
Anyways, here’s a post from Mashable: Will McCain Bore the Teens on MySpace and MTV?
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MySpace Layouts Created by Professional Designers
To some MySpace’ers, having a cool layout is like having a cool girlfriend 
Well…maybe not 
Anyways, I’ve recently cam across a site that offers highly customizable professional myspace templates / layouts. The layouts really look like a real normal flash web site and each one of the layouts were created by highly professional web designers and flash designers.
The site’s name is LoveMyFlash / Flash Layouts. Not a very creative name but they certainly very creative in creating those beautiful templates.
Check it out: LoveMyFlash / Flash Layouts
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Best MySpace Layouts That Don’t Look Like Myspace at all!
This year, it seems like there is a trend that has been going on for some time among those who are not really enjoying the looks of the default MySpace layout.
On Mashable, there is a post that lists the top 18 best MySpace layouts. It’s really weird when you see the layout for the first time…it’ll get you thinking whether the page that you had just visited is a myspace profile or not. Those folks has really done a great job and went to great lengths to make their MySpace layouts standout from the rest (in a good way)
Go on ahead and have a look at the post.
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MySpace Launching a Facebook Style News Feed
According to Reuters, MySpace will be launching a news feed that is similar to Facebook in about 1 month plus from now. According to MySpace, they will be allowing other application developers to publish stories to the feed.
It seems that this recent move by MySpace is telling all of use that they are running out of ideas on how to attract more members.
In my opinion, MySpace should really focus on improving existing features before releasing a new feature.
Anyways, we’ll see how it goes.
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