Daily Marauder

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA

News Corp.’s MySpace is launching a Celebrity Channel, giving users one-stop access to the personal pages and blogs of some 300 actors, musicians and athletes. The channel could attract big advertisers and serve as a promotional platform for Fox films and television. (http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-01-09-myspace-celebs_N.htm  1/10)

News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch reportedly has sent a letter to the board of Monster.com offering $4.8 billion for the online job-search company. SeekingAlpha says: “The only real threat” is Yahoo, which would “also love to buy MNST to grow their HotJobs offering.” (http://seekingalpha.com/article/59435-rumor-murdoch-bidding-for-monster-com  1/8)

Video-sharing Web sites watched their typical daily traffic double through 2007, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, with nearly half of U.S. Internet users stopping by YouTube and similar sites. The heaviest visiting activity came from men, age 18-29. (http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/01/10/youtube-video-sites-grab-more-visitors 1/10)