Stealing MySpace
by Julia Angwin · first published 2009
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A few years ago, MySpace.com was just an idea kicking around a Southern California spam mill. Scroll down to the present day and MySpace is one of the most visited Internet destinations in America, displaying more than 40 billion webpage views per month and generating nearly $1 billion annually for Rupert Murdoch's online empire. Even by the standards of the Internet age, the MySpace saga is an astounding growth story, which climaxed with the site's acquisition by Murdoch's News Corporation in 2005 for a sum approaching one billion dollars. But more than that, it may be the defining drama of t
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on “Ask HN: Great books you read in 2009?” ↗There a good book about the whole history of MySpace: http://www.amazon.com/Stealing-MySpace-Control-Popular-Websi...
on “MySpace: what went wrong – by its former VP of online marketing” ↗…some employees got almost nothing(people who came from intermix) and some got nothing(people who join myspace directly). Lots of employees left afterwards. There's a book about the whole deal called "Stealing Myspace".
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