(All Things D)
Remember Myspace? It was a bit like Facebook, back in the day, but nobody made a movie about it. The company, which was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in 2005 for the hefty price tag of $580 million, has now been sold off to advertising network Specific Media for just about 16 percent of its previous value. The deal did not include .
(TechCrunch)
By now you've probably heard of Google's new social networking push, Google+. If it looks a little bit more user-friendly than previous Google ventures, you can thank none other than , the former Apple employee who helped develop the original Macintosh OS. Hertzfeld has been a Google employee since 2005, but this is apparently his first opportunity to really cut loose. I guess that would explain why my first Google+ friend is .
(Cult of Mac)