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Idiot applications return: Top Friends gets banned from Facebook

As per CNet’s news.com post, Slide Inc, purveyor of useless Facebook fluff applications, has had a security breach and the “Top Friends” application has had its API key and listing pulled from the site. With one fell swoop, the MySpacization of Scary Stalkerbook was paused.
This is just a reminder that the developers of any [...]

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“America’s Got Talent”… on MySpace

From Mashable: America’s Got Talent… on MySpace.

WHAT IS THIS GOD WHY.
Seriously, I’d have a hard time thinking of a worse combination of words. Any takers in the comments?
(If you’re reading this from the front page, click through to see the horrendous image that accompanies this post.)

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User-generated stupidity: MySpace resorts to splash paging links

I was forced into accessing a MySpace page to listen to an upcoming band, and my opinion of the site hasn’t changed. Pages blare music at you; inert backgrounds chew up CPU; and the comments section is filled with “thanks for the add” and fifteen-year old girls that look suspiciously like the one from Your [...]

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HOWTO: Swipe music from MySpace players at full quality

I recently had a request from Phil to rip a particular track to MP3 from a band’s MySpace page. While most music on MySpace is shoddily encoded at 96Kbps, sometimes it’s the only place available online to listen to a particular song. To save yourself from the agony of calling up a Web browser, going [...]

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The hierarchy of Internet commenting

I’ve made a few statements in the past – both in real life and online – about how certain Web sites seem to attract certain types of users and commenters. There’s a very clear relationship between the audience a site attracts and the comments contributed by users. One can clearly go from quality, interesting comments [...]

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