MySpace Proactively Blocking TOS Violating + Other Third Party Widgets
Amit Chowdhry | Tuesday March 20, 2007 | 4,696 views
“The reason why I am so bummed out about MySpace now is because recently they have been cutting down our freedom and taking away our rights slowly,†stated Tila Tequila in a blog post this weekend on her MySpace profile. “MySpace will now only allow you to use ‘MySpace’ things.” Tila’s dissatisfaction with MySpace widget-blocking initiatives is just one voice of thousands and possibly millions of users that are proactive on the website.
[Tila Tequila, Picture Source: Wikipedia]
Hoooka, a music player widget is now starting to become blocked on MySpace since the social network conglomerate currently has a deal signed with rival, Snocap [source: Mashable]. Some of the other widgets being blocked include Revver, Stickam, and Imeem.
MySpace receives over 90 million visitors every month and the parent company of the social network, News Corporation is looking to capitalize as much as possible from this. The $580 million acquisition price will make it more worth it for them by blocking widgets that aren’t paying them for allowance.
In response to Imeem’s widgets being blocked from MySpace, Dalton Caldwell stated: “Our users weren’t happy” and “If MySpace isn’t really ‘their space’ after all, maybe users will think about things differently.”
MySpace currently has a deal with Google: $900 million over three years for powering MySpace search.
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