MySpace News:  Cracking down on link love  
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

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Under every blog, we used to post the code to copy and paste into MySpace bulletins, in case you wanted to share the story.  In case you were wondering why we can't do that anymore, MySpace is cracking down on link love.  Eh, it was inevitable.  You may have observed that when you put your cursor over a link on MySpace these days, your status bar doesn't tell you much about where you're going - you just see some nonsense about msplink.com/oogaboogabunchaletters.  That's because MySpace now employs a third-party system - msplink generator - that changes all of your links to go through the msplink site.  It prevents users from linking to "untrusted" sites, and helps curb spamming.

In fact, anyone using MySpace to promote their CafePress store is now totally screwed:  if you link to a store on CafePress through MySpace, it will change the link just to go to CafePress's homepage instead of your store, to stop people from using this social site just for advertising.

Anyhow, when you go to post a bulletin, MySpace automatically converts any links in it (or the code) to msplinks, and in the process somehow screws up IMG SRC code from our bulletins.  So, if you want to repost our stories, you'll have to just stay on the lookout for us to post them on MySpace (that means you have to be our friend on there, so if you're not, go do it).

You can still repost bulletins that any of your friends post, by clicking "reply" to the bulletin, and then copying and pasting the code there into a new bulletin post.

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