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SlashPhone: MySpace and Research In Motion (RIM) are joining forces to develop an integrated MySpace Mobile experience customized for BlackBerry smartphones.

The new MySpace for BlackBerry smartphones application will be fully optimized and provides instant, push-based messaging to BlackBerry and MySpace users. The application will be available in all BlackBerry markets globally.

As part of this collaboration, RIM is also creating a BlackBerry community page on MySpace for users to access the latest BlackBerry smartphone news, content, videos, games, ringtones, skins and other unique and engaging features.

The MySpace for BlackBerry smartphones application is designed with features  including a full messaging interface, including comments, bulletins and messaging.

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MacNN: The popular social networking site Facebook is working on a music platform that would put it in direct competition with MySpace, while linking it with iTunes, say several anonymous sources. While MySpace has long been used as a venue for promoting bands, thanks in part to items like a built-in music player, Facebook has kept to a more utilitarian approach, only allowing minor applications such as iLike, which shares iTunes playlists and links to free MP3s. iLike would be incorporated into the new promotion platform, but the format would also allow sampling from iTunes, and ultimately buying tracks directly. Aesthetically band pages would retain the current Facebook style, as opposed to the custom and often visually dramatic looks of MySpace sites.

The operators of Facebook must reportedly finish negotiations with music labels before the service can start. Also in the works is the required agreement with Apple, though in some circumstances artists and labels may choose to sell tracks through their own services, rather than accept a middleman.

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Guardian Unlimited: MySpace is to take on YouTube’s status as the world’s leading video-sharing website by renaming and relaunching its own service as MySpaceTV.

The video section of MySpace will be given its own web presence, www.myspacetv.com, and built up as a destination in its own right.

Despite being the second biggest video-sharing website behind YouTube, MySpace’s offering has not secured the same sort of profile.

The new standalone website will also incorporate more professionally created content.Last week MySpace signed a deal with Sony for its “minisodes” – five-minute clips of 80s comedies such as Silver Spoons and Diff’rent Strokes.

MySpace TV is also likely to be a distribution channel for programming from the online video joint venture under development by NBC Universal and Fox, part of News Corporation.

The new website will tie in to the profiles created by MySpace users, as well as being accessible to a general online audience.

MySpaceTV is being launched tailored to 15 international territories, which parallel YouTube’s country-specific versions of its video-sharing website.

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