How to lure back social-network users lost to the shiny, pimply new face at school? MySpace could, we suppose, give its user interface a good scrubbing. But no, instead, the aging, News Corp.-owned website is trying to prove it's still hip by hitting the road. MySpace is hosting the eponymous MySpace Music Tour, on which headliners include Hellogoodbye and Say Anything, who both credit (or blame) MySpace for their popularity, and Polysics, which is on MySpace's in-house music label. With sites like YouTube and Facebook crowding in on MySpace , the social network is performing all sorts of stunts to prove it's still a hot property. Anything, that is, but fixing its actual product.

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