News Corp. launched a major media campaign today hoping that young people on MySpace will stop doing stupid things that gets the company sued. Well, that’s not how they put it.

For the four-week period ending May 27th, NBC led all four major broadcast networks in attracting Internet users to its web properties.

The decision by Fox Interactive Media and Foundation Capital to drop $13.5 million into SimplyHired is an interesting one in light of the website’s competition, who boasts more traffic. According to Hitwise, SimplyHired.com brings in only a third of traffic rival job site Indeed.com.

Reruns of “The Simpsons” will yield a 12.5 percent cut of the revenue generated online from those shows and other Fox programs.

News Corp., being very proactive to protect its jewel of the web MySpace.com, has teamed up with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and the Advertising Council to provide public service announcement (PSA) banner ads promoting online safety across MySpace.com and other Fox media.

Thanks to CBS’ decision to broadcast games via the Web, nearly 10 million people flocked to sports-related websites on the first day of March Madness, the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. The largest increase was during working hours, where employees could watch at their desks.

Fox has launched a program that give American Idol fans their own blogs on the Fox site.

MarketerToday notes that Fox is buying Google ads for searches for its new hit show “Prison Break”.

I recently was asked by an author to remove a free content article from a client web site where we had posted it (with several others from different authors) to increase topical relevancy at a site that fit the article perfectly.

A business blog component as part of every online business is one of my main SEO recommondations. Because of the search engine power of business blogs, it’s a natural addition for every website.

The name rolls off the tongue like that of a James Bond villain, accompanied by a scowl and a painful memory. Muuuuuurdoch! For the constituents of MySpace.com, ownership of their beloved meeting ground by media mogul billionaire and alleged world domination hopeful Rupert Murdoch leaves a sour taste in the mouth.

Blu-Ray launched another offensive in the DVD war in the form of the 20th Century Fox studio. Make no bones about it; it is a war as Sony, Toshiba and all the companies who’ve signed off on the respective high definition formats continue to look for an edge.

Many mobile users in the UK who purchased the Crazy Frog Axel F’ ringtone didn’t read the fine print.

Another option for fantasy football fans launches from AOL, which hopes to capitalize on fantasy popularity.

The Pew Internet and American Life project released a study today that says most U.S. Internet users learned about spyware and adware the hard way. They’ve had their computers screwed, blued and tattooed by annoying bits of software that take over your browser, eat up memory, cause your computer to crash and a whole host of other problems.

A newly announced joint venture between Microsoft’s search portal and News Corp’s Fox Sports offers advanced fantasy football features for free.

One of the features being added to search engines is the ability to take a query and provide more than just the standard search results as a response. A number of engines have introduced options that allow users to receive specific answers when they enter a query about a certain subject.

News Corp and Maven Networks in partnership on delivery of downloadable movie trailers and content.

The Federal Communications Commission has mandated the inclusion of a “broadcast flag” in programming to prevent content from being distributed over the Internet.

News Corp. is increasing the exchange ratio in its previously announced exchange offer for all of the outstanding shares of Fox Entertainment’s Class A common stock that News Corp. doesn’t already own.

In case you’re looking for some Google employee blogs, here is a relatively comprehensive list …