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RIM announces more downloads in the first week for their BlackBerry-compatible MySpace application than for any before.

Jesse Thunderwake list’s himself as local to Austin on Myspace, check him out. (via Wetwired: Austin Texas Blog)

Perhaps influenced by prominent social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, Microsoft will begin integrating features such as a news feed and profiles into its Windows Live applications.

On this Daily Debrief, CNET's Kara Tsuboi and Ina Fried discuss the company's motivation to join the party and the potential to infuriate long-time users with these newfangled features.

At long last MySpace users get a true mobile app on BlackBerry, but it's another part of the partnership that got us wondering.

Why nobody in the tech world is surprised that Facebook is still behind MySpace in terms of advertising.

Facebook, which is reportedly being outhustled on ad sales by MySpace, is rolling out a new model to advertisers.

The aim: Get you to interact with an ad. According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook introduced the ads in August and is now rolling it out to all advertisers.

Courtney Holt hasn't signed any contracts yet but has given MySpace Music a verbal commitment, according to sources. Is Holt up to taking on iTunes?

They were chatty, but in the Web 2.0 summit panel the two still wouldn't say who's been chosen as the CEO of MySpace Music or even if they see Apple's iTunes as competitive.

Auditude, a video ad technology company, will be bringing its targeting technology to News Corp.'s MySpace portal for Viacom's MTV Networks content.

Talk about a lot of big-media dealmaking.

Additions to the AOL.com homepage include an embedded RSS reader and a widget with feeds from AIM and Bebo as well as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter.