MySpace working around users to get advertisers
MySpace is teaming with online job ads aggregator Simply Hired to bring MySpace Careers to its young users. Silicon Valley Web 2.0 tracker Mike Arrington, the guy whose blog every start-up in the world wants to star in, broke the news. (Link via Hitachi’s Jeremiah Owyang, with whom I had the pleasure of dining on Monday night at the home of business blogging author Shel Israel.)
Perhaps MySpace sees the creation of dedicated quasi-portals like this - which feature no actual user-generated content - as a way to attract advertisers who want nothing at all to do with the perceived risks of user-generated content. Can MySpace Travel and MySpace Finance be far behind?