MySpace : the power of three?

Reuters report that social network MySpace, now owned by the Murdoch Corporation, have been in talks “for months” with eBay to allow users to post items for sale directly on their MySpace profiles.

The source is apparently “a person close to the discussions”, though no official word from either company has been received yet.

What has been confirmed is a new partnership between MySpace and Vodaphone, which will allow the latter’s customers to access their MySpace from mobile phones: users will be able “to edit their own MySpace profiles, find and add friends, post photos and blogs and send and receive MySpace messages while on the move”.

Americans last year spent more time on MySpace than any other site. With 43 million users (or thereabouts), a direct tie-in looks like a very profitable move for eBay.

3 Responses on "MySpace : the power of three?"

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   Mountie says:

   February 7, 2007 at 9:51 pm

   Even more interesting it appears that Google is somewhat annoyed at the thought of MySpace pairing up with eBay. I guess the non-descript performance of their own ecommerce and payment processing offerings are threatened with the thought of yet more competiton. Well to be honest if I was Google I’d be worried too :O
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   TameBay : eBay networks with Bebo says:

   March 1, 2007 at 7:22 pm

   [...] Less than a month after news of eBay linking up with social networking site MySpace the Wall Street Journal reports eBay have a new alliance with Bebo.Similar to the MySpace deal users would be able to post lists of items they wish to sell or buy, clicking on an item would send them to the eBay site. [...]
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   Ztail therapy : TameBay says:

   June 8, 2007 at 3:44 pm

   [...] I like this idea very much: it seems like joined up thinking, to create the listing and send it both to eBay and to MySpace/Facebook etc. at the same time. It’s what I hoped the rumoured eBay/MySpace tie-up would turn out to be; it’s what eBay To Go wants to be when it grows up. [...]