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The Register – Murdoch to bring MySpace to UK: News International has sent the social networking world into a tizz by saying its US-based MySpace.com will hit the UK within a month. According to the BBC, Fox Interactive Media president Ross Levinson told a conference in Las Vegas that the UK launch was on track, and that the initial plan was to “tap into the music scene”.
(Cheers to Nick for the heads-up.)
UPDATE – Five quid says that someone just made (or is about to make) a bundle out of the currently parked and marked ‘for sale’ domain myspace.co.uk – a WHOIS shows that the record was last updated, erm… today. The domain has been in the posession of Total Web Solutions (and appears to have been held and advertised on a speculation basis) since late 1997.
Oh, and some clever-clogs registered my-space.co.uk 9 short days ago.
By cheeks January 25, 2006 - 12:45 pm
Don’t know if you ever saw this:http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article337149.ece
By Manic January 25, 2006 - 11:46 pm
I hadn’t seen that (cheers), but I *had* already wondered how far we would get with a Murdoch-focused campaign targeted directly at MySpace users… and/or how far people like you or I would get as MySpace users. Just to find out where the limits were, you understand…