Time to alert the MySpace.com users:

Police in Oakland, Calif., say a gang’s MySpace page helped lead to a suspect in the killing of a high school football player.MySpace page leads to suspected killer (UPI)

FARMINGTON — Police are investigating a message which was posted on myspace.com, Farmington Police Chief Jim Arrington said today.Farmington police conduct MySpace investigation (The Canton Daily Ledger)

WAYNESBORO - A cyber school student who lives in the Waynesboro Area School District is facing 34 counts of making terroristic threats and 34 counts of harassment for allegedly posting threats against other students last month on a MySpace page.Teen faces charges in MySpace threat probe (Waynesboro Record Herald)

ImpreMedia has signed on to provide live video streaming and Spanish translation for an online series of dialogues with presidential candidates hosted by the social network MySpace and youth cable network MTV.ImpreMedia Partners with MySpace, MTV (Marketing Y Medios)

Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday his company’s multiyear deal with online social network leader MySpace is performing better than originally planned.Google says MySpace deal ahead of plans (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Police in Oakland, Calif., say a gang’s MySpace page helped lead to a suspect in the killing of a high school football player. Investigators said Dwayne Stancill, 19, admitted killing Greg Doody Ballard Jr., a football player at San Leandro High School,…MySpace page leads to suspected killer (EARTHtimes.org)

Time to alert the MySpace.com users:

OAKLAND — Oakland police say clues found on the MySpace.com Web site helped lead to the arrest a 19-year old man accused in the senseless Oct. 13th killing of San Leandro High School football player Greg “Doody” Ballard, Jr.MySpace Page Helps Police Catch Murder Suspect (Bayinsider)

Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday his company’s multiyear deal with online social network leader MySpace is performing better than originally planned.Google says MySpace deal ahead of plans (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

MySpace is getting into the book business.MySpace collaborating on book (AP via Yahoo! News)

MySpace has played an important role in helping Oakland police apprehend a 19-year old man accused of shooting a San Leandro High School football player Greg “Doody” Ballard, Jr. Oakland police had a street name of a suspect and were able to identify Dwayne Stancill, 19 of Oakland from a picture they found on a gang’s MySpace page. Police brought the suspect to their headquarters where …MySpace Catches a Murderer (WebProNews)

With Facebook slowly creeping up on MySpace, is there room for two social networking sites?MySpace v. Facebook: Competing Addictions (Time Magazine)

A suspected gang member jailed in the slaying of a popular San Leandro High School football player in Oakland was identified with the help of his picture on the gang’s MySpace page, authorities said Wednesday. Dwayne Stancill, 19, of Oakland, the son of a San…Murder suspect identified through gang’s MySpace page (San Francisco Chronicle)

MySpace is getting into the book business. The online social network, an increasingly popular venue for authors, booksellers and publishers, is collaborating with a children’s imprint of HarperCollins on an environmental handbook coming out April 22, Earth Day.MySpace collaborates on ‘green’ book (USA Today)

GAINING ON MYSPACE Social networking Web site Facebook outgrew rival MySpace in the United States as measured by unique visitors.Facebook traffic grows faster than MySpace (San Jose Mercury News)

MySpace/Our Planet: Change is Possible will feature ideas from MySpace users.HarperCollins, MySpace in book deal (Crain’s New York Business)

Shawn Gold, the SVP of Marketing and Content Development at MySpace, is leaving, paidContent.org has learned, and Gold has confirmed it to us. Not sure where he is going, and he still has three weeks left at MySpace, but he recently registered SocialApproach.com, so that might give you a hint.MySpace SVP of Marketing & Content Shawn Gold Leaving (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance)