Myspace gives peek at website redesign

SAN FRANCISCO —

Myspace this week provided a glimpse at a major overhaul of the music-centric online community striving to reclaim lost glory. A message atop the myspace.com home page promised: Coming soon. The new Myspace, and provided a link to video showing a redesigned user interface that deeply integrates Facebook and Twitter.

Myspace said, whether you’re a musician, photographer, filmmaker, designer or just a dedicated fan, we’d love for you to be a part of our brand new community. Visitors could leave email addresses to be sent invitations to the redesigned Myspace service. Early this year, Myspace launched a new music player that it said attracted a flood of new fans.

Myspace is vying with hot Internet music services such as Spotify, Pandora, and Rdio as people increasingly go online for entertainment content. Myspace claims the largest library of online music with about 42 million tracks.

News Corp sold Myspace in June for $35 million, just six percent of its $580-million purchase price, to Specific Media, a digital ad-targeting platform.