MySpace and Facebook are officially talking. But it probably doesn’t look like this.

October 28, 2009 | Kim-Mai Cutler | Comments | |

So MySpace and Facebook are officially talking about sharing music content through a Facebook Connect integration, according to a story published in The Telegraph this week. The two companies’ paths are diverging — MySpace has reoriented itself around a content strategy, relinquishing its broader ambitions, while Mark Zuckerberg has said that he has always seen Facebook as a technology company first and foremost.

MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta told the Telegraph:

“Facebook is about core communications with your friendship network, whereas MySpace is about congregating around popular content with people who share your interests.”

So they’re talking, but the conversation between the one-time rivals probably looks nothing like this version between Zuck, MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson and good old Rupert Murdoch:

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Kim-Mai was born and raised a stone's throw from Apple headquarters in Cupertino by a devout Hewlett-Packard family. After attending UC Berkeley, Kim-Mai worked for Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in New York, Los Angeles, London and Buenos Aires. Follow her on Twitter at @kimmaicutler, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.

  • Chris
    I just stopped by to say the photo was filled with win and epic and thank you kindly for it.
  • What is a "technology company" ?
  • It was a thinly veiled dig at Yahoo in a speech over the weekend. He wants to keep the top ranks always filled with engineers and people of a "hacker" mindset -- rather than B-school types or media execs.
  • Engineers can be stupid too :P But at least they can code something... theoretically...
  • Wonder if they plan on eventually selling music together.
  • I guess Myspace says if you can't beat em', join em.' Same thing Facebook did when decided to allow its users to connect with Twitter. Not a bad strategy at all. It's the way they keep their users.

    -Nikki-