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Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and is widely recognized as an expert on both technical and business issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed. Dave maintains three weblogs, The Business Blog at Intuitive.com, focused on business and industry analysis, the eponymous Ask Dave Taylor devoted to tech and business Q&A and The Attachment Parenting Blog, discussing topics of interest to parents. Dave is an award-winning speaker, sought after conference and workshop participant and frequent guest on radio and podcast programs.

MySpace officially says "We have become Facebook" with Friend Updates

Logged in to my MySpace account this evening and was rather surprised to be greeted with this:

Ah, okay, I thought to myself. I knew it was coming and that MySpace wouldn't be able to resist ripping off one of the core features of the Facebook world, but it was a bit of a surprise because I haven't seen anyone mention it as of yet.

I closed the window and there, staring me in the face, was a demonstration of how MySpace has implemented the feature:

Not bad at all, actually. The decision to require people to opt in to the broadcast service is a smart one, but I do wonder how long it'll take before it's drowning in porn and other spam "notifications" in a way that I haven't really experienced in the tame walled garden of Facebook.

How do you opt in? Well, it wouldn't be any surprise if that was a new entry on my tech support blog, would it? :-)

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