MySpace
MySpace Planning To Roll Out Facebook Connect ASAP (Or Not)
MySpace is preparing to add Facebook Connect features to its main service, we’ve confirmed from a source within MySpace. This will be the first time MySpace will publicly conceded defeat…
Former MySpace Exec Teams With Yahoo Rock Star For New Startup
MySpace’s former GM International Travis Katz left the company shortly after the big executive shakeout in the Spring of 2009. He spent a few months in Hawaii recharging, and then…
CODE Advisors Absolutely, Definitely Not Working With MySpace On A Spinoff
Lots of scuttlebutt around Silicon Valley that new investment bank CODE Advisors is out pitching a MySpace spinoff to potential buyers and investors. Sources include people who’ve actually been pitched.…
MySpace Employees Speak Their Mind. Lots Of Yelling Going On, Apparently.
We’ve had lots of emails from MySpace employees with their response to our most recent post about the crumbling mid level management structure. “If you’re a MySpace employee and feel…
The Davos (Or Is It Arrington?) Curse – People I Interviewed Are Getting Fired
The list of people I interviewed at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland earlier this year is starting to look like more like a hit list than a VIP…
MySpace's Mid Level Management Structure Is Crumbling
The problem with all of these people who are walking out the door at MySpace isn’t so much the number of them, because MySpace is trying to replace them by…
Quote Of The Day: MySpace Co-President? "Hell, Yeah"
Jon [Miller] came to us and said, `Would you like to be co-presidents?’ We said, `Hell yeah.’ We didn’t have to move our desks,” — Former MySpace Chief Product Officer…
More Talent Walks Out The Door At MySpace: Three Key Employees Go To Gravity
More bad news for an already bullet-riddled MySpace: three key employees have left the company to join Gravity, a cross-town startup founded by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur, SVP Steve…
TweetPhoto Gets More Social With Facebook, Twitter, And Foursquare; Launches Better iPhone App
First launched back in April 2009, TweetPhoto has been steadily building out its service with multiple useful features, including Foursquare integration and a partnership with Kodak. Today, the site is…
Chris DeWolfe Makes His Move – Raises Big Round, Acquires Gaming Platform MindJolt
Last year we reported that MySpace founder and former CEO Chris DeWolfe was raising a big round of capital to start acquiring companies. He’s now closed on that round of…
MySpace Lost Faith For All Things Mobile; Former VP John Faith Gone
Troubled social networking giant MySpace has lost another key executive with the recent departure of John Faith, until recently General Manager and Vice President of MySpace Mobile. His resignation hasn’t…
Longtime MySpace Chief Software Architect Chris Bissell Quits
We’ve gotten word of another departure from MySpace in the wake of CEO Owen Van Natta’s firing two weeks ago. The latest to leave is Chris Bissell, MySpace’s Chief Software…
More MySpace Product Strategy Laid Bare: MySpace Apps Expert Review Document
Internal MySpace product documents continue to leak into our inbox from presumably angry employees and former employees. Today we’ve got a late 2009 powerpoint presentation created by Tim Sutcliffe, MySpace’s…
RemakingMySpace: "Controversial. Bold. Progressive." And Dead.
In the summer of 2009 MySpace hired Katie Geminder, Facebook’s Director of User Experience and Design, as an SVP. Her primary job was to assemble a “swat team” of leading…
MySpace's Hail Mary Strategy: "Discovery"
MySpace’s new slogan, and the theme of their new product strategy, will be “Discover and be Discovered,” we’ve confirmed from multiple sources. This will be their differentiating factor from Facebook,…
MySpace Launches An Activity And Content Stream
MySpace has launched an activity and content stream, which they are calling simply the “Stream.” Previously they showed a feed of status updates from friends, but the new feature shows…
Microsoft Outlook Is Starting To Look Like A Poor Man's Xobni
As we first reported on Friday, Microsoft is adding some social hooks into Outlook 2010. Outlook will gain the ability to pull in profile information, photos, and update streams from…
MySpace SVP of User Experience Katie Geminder Follows Van Natta Out The Door
Katie Geminder, MySpace’s SVP of User Experience and Design who was brought on board last summer, is leaving the company at the end of the week. Her departure doesn’t come…
Facebook Drives 44 Percent Of Social Sharing On The Web
If you are still wondering why Google is pushing so hard with its new product Buzz, it is because it wants in on social traffic. For many sites on the…
MySpace Jumps Into Google's Real Time Stream
Google just added another content boost to its stream of real-time information: it now features MySpace updates, which will start appearing both on Google’s main search results page and under…
MySpace Gets The Hitler Meme Treatment
This Hitler Meme video about the firing of MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta after just 9 months on the job must have been done by an insider (it was forwarded…
MySpace Stream Architect Monica Keller Jumps To Facebook
Monica Keller, a MySpace Group Architect who has played a key role in advancing MySpace’s initiatives in activity streams and openness, is leaving the company to join Facebook. Keller announced…
Tom Has Finally Reached His MySpace Friend Limit
MySpace cofounder Tom Anderson supposedly begged to keep his job when the rest of the founding team was shown the door nine months ago. They kept him on, almost as…
Microsoft And Partners Are About To Add A Big Fat Social Layer To Outlook
In November 2009, when Microsoft announced the release of the public beta of Microsoft Office 2010, the company also introduced an entirely new add-on for its Outlook product that we…
The Only Chance For MySpace Is To Be Free Of News Corp.
MySpace, once the King of the Internet, lost its second CEO yesterday in less than a year. The response from press has, rightfully, been bleak. Owen Van Natta, who was…
MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta Steps Down
MySpace has just announced that CEO Owen Van Natta has left the company. Taking his place will be co-Presidents Mike Jones And Jason Hirschhorn, who had been serving as the…
The Ten Biggest Advertising Publishers On The Web
Last year, Yahoo still dominated display advertising on the Web in terms of sheer number of ad impressions on its properties, but social networking sites MySpace and Facebook came on…
MySpace Chief Product Officer Jason Hirschhorn On His Way Out After 9 Months On The Job
MySpace Chief Product Officer Jason Hirschhorn will soon be leaving the company, we’ve heard from multiple sources. Hirschhorn joined MySpace in April 2009 as part of the major executive shakeup…
News Corp Earnings Are In: Digital Media Contribution Decreases By $32 Million YOY
News Corporation this afternoon announced financial results for the second quarter ended December 31, 2009. Zooming in on the ‘Other’ segment, which houses News Corp’s Digital Media group, things are…
Owen Van Natta Talks About His First 8 Months Running MySpace (video)
I sat down with MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland earlier this week to talk about his first eight months on the job.…