Sadly, they probably have fewer friends than Burger King
- by Pixel
Why the media is screwed. This from the Associated Press, the world’s largest friggin’ news organization:
Power loss at L.A. data center blamed for MySpace outage
NEW YORK (AP) — The popular social-networking site MySpace.com suffered a pair of extended outages over the weekend because of power problems at a key data center in the Los Angeles area, the company said Monday.
In a message to MySpace users, company co-founder and President Tom Anderson said MySpace “has been screwy” since Saturday because of failures in both the main power supply and the backup generators. Visitors to the site were given an opportunity to play Pac-Man while waiting for the restoration of their personal profile pages.
The company blamed a heat wave that has gripped California in recent days, increasing electricity demand and leaving tens of thousands of customers in Southern California without power.
In related, equally disheartening news:
Marine Corps looking for a few good MySpace buddies
KANEOHE, Hawaii (AP) — Teens looking to hook up with a friend on the popular Web community MySpace may bump into an unexpected buddy: the U.S. Marine Corps.
So far, over 12,000 Web surfers have signed on as friends of the Corps in response to the latest military recruiting tactic. Other military branches may follow.
The Marine Corps MySpace profile — featuring streaming video of barking drill sergeants, fresh recruits enduring boot camp and Marines storming beaches– underscores the growing importance of the Internet to advertisers as a medium for reaching America’s youth.
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So far over 430 people have asked to contact a Marine recruiter through the site in the five months since the page went up, including some 170 who are considered ‘leads’ or prospective Marine recruits.
The Marine Corps isn’t the first to use MySpace profiles to reach the Web community’s core audience of teenagers and twenty-somethings.
Toyota Motor Corp. has a page to promote the Yaris, its new subcompact car. Verizon Wireless sponsored a contest on MySpace for the best single by an unsigned band.
The Army initially posted ads on MySpace in January but withdrew them a month later when reports emerged about child predators approaching youths via the site. MySpace has since assured the Army it has better security protections in place.
As for other branches, the Air Force places regular advertisements on MySpace, but doesn’t have a profile. The Navy hasn’t used MySpace.
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Why the media is screwed. This from the Associated Press, the world’s largest friggin’ news organization: Power loss at L.A. data center blamed for MySpace outage NEW YORK (AP) — The popular social-networking site MySpace.com suffered a pair of extended outages over the weekend because of power problems at a key data center in the…