Arrington – you’re a real weird dude!
Why not mention that MySpace is HIRING 70 new tech dudes instead.
As for Gravity, every MySpacer I know is pulling for them to hit a homerun on their venture.
Coleman, Bissell & Farino: I thank you for the magnificent work you done for us.
Go get em!

Yeah, too bad it will take that 70 people to replace the three talented people that just left!
Riddle me this batman… what tech dudes ( your words) worth any salt will jump on that sinking ship?
Answer, only the ones that have no where else to go…
BTW….with that recruiting department, 70 hires will take you to FY 2015…
Good luck!

Ok leaving MySpace but why choose Gravity ? I know they have some funds but the project looks really tiny compare to what they want to do…

Just wondering how traffic is going to be split up with all these new communities coming. Do people move from one community to the other or they just carave out new demographics for themselves?

Stay tuned. Re-read your post in 90 days.
Please don’t call me ‘batman’. My friends call me The Weasel.
BTW. The 3 that left are irreplaceable!

Probably gonna be split up alphabetically.

I heard they replaced some of the staff at the myspace cafe too, shocked Mike didn’t write that up as well.

how so.. your profiles seem like something hippies from the 60′s would love… I think the thing myspace did was prove the general public have no fashion sense.. your feeds are filled with spam… workflow is brutal… great employees..

They call me igebadia…

Where is MySpace heading with all of their talented eployees leaving?

They should work for Aukendi ;-) http://www.aukendi.com, don’t underrstand why they choose gravity, while there are better options for them!

How great could all these MySpace departees possible be?

My room is the G-spot. Call me Mr Flinstone. I can make you Bedrock.

MySpace has some great leadership now. With strategic acquisitions in their pipeline, and an incredibly talented recruiting team, Myspace has the resources to attract some strong technical talent right now. They are becoming a destination site for consumers to be discovered. I am confident they are doing some things right. Don’t forget they have some incredible resources at their fingertips.

Keep it up Mike & Team.

Personally, I believe that Coleman was very much overrated. He had a very questionable work ethic.
My friends who work at MySpace tell me that he was nothing more than a foul-mouthed bully. It is a matter of record, that he was twice arrested for torturing kittens in a place of worship – an Orthodox Synagogue.

Sorry tale for MySpace. Ever since Owen Van Natta made his exit, there has a lot of activity in terms of people leaving the company. Surely MySpace’s rebuilding plans would take a big knock with the departure of these three talented people.

gravity will never fly.

neither will that little google I keep hearing about

Another 90 days? lol.

trust me, as an ex-spacer, these three guys are TOPs. MySpace was a victim of its own success in the middle years–it kept growing at what was (for the internet) an historic rate that the initial architecture couldn’t scale. All the kids getting home from school at 3pm PST and hitting MySpace would bring the site down almost daily. These three guys were instrumental in solving the problem. By the time we were hitting BILLIONs of ad impressions per day, no one ever complained about MySpace uptime problems any more, and it’s thanks to these guys and the rest of the backend team–most of which (like myself0 is now out of MySpace. (p.s. shout-out is also due to homeboy AllenSirken, above, as another top talent for managing all these tech folk).

wait, lemme guess: they need “niche-level social networking” or some such nonsense….zzzzzz

“HIRING” seems like over-reaching, AllenSirken, don’t you think? I guess “desperately bringing back the referral bonus to try and get some halfway decent talent to sitdown for an interview” doesn’t have the same oomph, though.

Can’t wait to check back in 90 days, though. Is that when we’ll see Artist Sites up and running? Pretty sure that’s gonna solve everything.

Gravity looks interesting; however, i think they have too many ppl given the stage of the product.

Nobody is irreplaceable. Who is irreplaceable? Name one.

If myspace is so full of “talent” how come they (myspace) is so fucked up?

Hey,
If you want to be called vermin…fine by me.
90 days huh? I think you need to lay off the hash pipe my friend.
Simple terms that even a 4 legged little rodent can understand….
Very few people that are talented in the development area are going to want to sign up with a company that is going through a huge identity crisis.
That this unless they have no other place to go.

If AllenSirken is Allen Hurff, then that statement if F’in funnier than hell…

Myspace’s new anthem happens to be a john mayer song…

Gravity is working against me
And gravity wants to bring me down

Oh I’ll never know what makes this man
With all the love that his heart can stand
Dream of ways to throw it all away

Oh Gravity is working against me
And gravity wants to bring me down

Oh twice as much ain’t twice as good
And can’t sustain like a one half could
It’s wanting more
That’s gonna send me to my knees
[repeat]

Oh gravity, stay the hell away from me
And gravity has taken better men than me (now how can that be?)

Just keep me where the light is
Just keep me where the light is
Just keep me where the light is
C’mon keep me where the light is
C’mon keep me where the light is
Oh… where the light is! [repeat]

It’s easy for the great unwashed to think a lack of product direction means there’s no technical competence either. It’s a fact that keeping a big site running (and I don’t think anyone can say myspace isn’t big- not as big as it used to be, but still big) takes considerable talent, even if the appearance of said site is crap. These guys were instrumental in keeping it running.

“lay off the hash pipe”. NEVER!!
~The Weasel

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Curious to see if the folks at Gravity bring some of their favorite dead wood with them.

What would motivate a high level employee to leave the company and go to the competition? I think it is valuable to analyze that point…there is an interesting conversation here http://bit.ly/dmsMk4

Regarding MySpace or Gravity, I don´t know much about them to give an objective opinion..

I would rather choose Myspace than that deadlast socialnetworking site Friendster: I believe Friendster is the pinnacle of all mistakes when it comes to social-networking sites. Details: http://bit.ly/friendster-for-100-million-best-or-worst

If Innovation is slower taltent moves… Same in every sector

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Steve Jobs

I am sure they will after they find someone with deep pockets to fleece. That was one of the(many) problems with MS, they created kingdoms of dead wood

This is not hard to understand. Gravity is shaping up as a fantastic product. Someone nailing the forums-as-platform play has the chance to become an extremely important company.

It’s got the gameplay/badges element in it, it’s dead easy to use and see what those you care about are reading and talking about.

Why stay at a company like MySpace which has spent the last 12 months going nowhere fast in the hope that a reshuffle inside a huge corporate entity will bring the innovation back?

This comment is sooo funny. That’s what it makes techcrunch like the onion.

Don’t put Allen hurff and Allen sirken together. Hurff is a positive asset. Sirken is a irreplaceable piece of dead weight. One of those you wonder what he qualifies for a paycheck.

But he has the brain

offiicial national Unemployment rate is still above 9%. Underemployment rate is much higher. For california unemployment rate is 12%.

David,
Sirken was hired as part of our ‘outreach’ program.
Although extremely mentally challenged, he has learned how to speak & write short sentences.
Watching him attempt even the most basic physical operations is heartbreaking! But worst of all is the incontinence…
-Chris D.

Thanks. So myspace has additional revenue stream from providing rehab services for challenged seniors?

Or that’s one of the myspace secret shows – Office the MSpace version, we never know about?

Really hope they earn more than the six fig spend on him. Well at least some people got their entertainment at work. Honestly they should charge him back for training him to be a star comedian.

Quack, u in the same team as sirken? Or sharing the same place?

To clarify I meant Chris B and Dan F

LoL. This thread is so entertaining. Guess we need someone like him to get some laughs in bad times.

This isn’t exactly news – what about the rumors floating about that eBay execs are walking out to DubLi?

Challenged seniors are a necessary asset in any down spiralling organization. Their wrinkles and bad humor keep us amused and distracted from any worthwile work. We need more AllenSirkens in the company. Also we like seeing folks use PC- DOS in the office.

He makes the slow workers feel better. Enough reason in myspace for a paycheque.

Heard people call him Jesus and sings grace during peak office hours.

No way he skin kittens on the altar. You mistaken his prayers for cussing right?

I have been in a continuous state of tears after reading some of these comments. My son even refuses to go to school – he sees the scorn & pity in the eyes of his classmates.
If I promise never to post another optimistic comment about MySpace again, would that help stop these hurtful remarks?
Almost forgot: A friend of mine asked me to check if anybody had some coupons for ‘Depends’.

It sounds like those posts are targetted not the company but just the perceived image of you around the company from people who have worked with you.
I am sure there are exceptions.

So keep posting your good words about the company. I am sure everyone understand. Keep it up.

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AllenSirken exemplifies everything that is wrong with MySpace and FIM.

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