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Re: Secrets behind MySpace’s success

CraigdListExploited Review — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:45:23 -0000

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kenneth — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:15:06 -0000

myspace is the funnest thing kids are into now adays i think they should be able to get on at school and at home i think it is rediculous that the schools are trying to teach them how to type but give them no reason to type. so i think they need to unblock it for everybody to be able to use it.

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Tom lee — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:24:28 -0000

i think MySpace is a cool site, nice place to meet new people, online dating etc.

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nakia — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:49:15 -0000

well myspace is kida like a fun place for teenagers not for me even though i have my on pg./.

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Sandy — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:56:42 -0000

I like MySpace a lot, but I really don't like the IM client. Instead I use the eBuddy client at www.ebuddy.com. It's very easy to use, everywhere available and you can even use different chats (like MSN, AOL, Yahoo, AIM, MySpace etc). Also on your mobile :) Highly recommended!

Re: Secrets behind MySpace’s success

His Mastership George Levy — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 18:51:45 -0000

There's something to be said about a place where you can build a profile and be anyone or anything you want to be.

As the creator of http://www.myspacemastershi... and a legend on MySpace with thousands of friends from all over the world, I'll be the first one to admit the place has its risks... On the flip side, it can also be an incredibly beneficial tool with relatively low risk to use if you follow certain safety rules.

MySpace is the ultimate viral experiment and every day I am amazed at how this just keeps growing.

For those who want to reel it in and tone down the site, I would be very interested in seeing what kind of repercussions putting on some brakes on the site would have.

As someone who spends an obscene amount of time on MySpace, all I can say is catch up with this platform and learn to embrace it as I do not foresee it going anywhere soon.

For the best instructional guide and tool set on how to master MySpace, check out the best selling membership site http://www.myspacemastershi...

Your friend,

His Mastership
George Levy

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myspace player — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:03:58 -0000

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peace

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MySpace Layouts — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:35:14 -0000

This is very accurate. Users like to feel like they have some say in the development of a project. Although, sometimes you can't do EVERYTHING that users suggeset. MySpace did a good job of filtering out the changes that will accomodate for the majority of users, rather than just a couple nit picky ones.

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RomneyTV — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:25:28 -0000

http://www.schlogger.com/'r...

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RomneyTV — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:23:53 -0000

The problem with myspace is the wierdos. That's why I prefer Schlogger, it is a social networking service for college, and university communities in the United States and the United Kingdom. http://www.schlogger.com

Re: Secrets behind MySpace’s success

alan macleese — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 05:10:47 -0000

Mr. S:
L.A. blogger Trent Lapinski, 19 and a collegian, posted this dispatch on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2006 at 1:06 a.m. under the heading:
'WTF: Why doesn't anyone ask who actually runs MySpace?' And there was this subhede:
'After reading about a recent MySpace censorship ploy, it boggles my mind as to why no one asks who the heck actually runs this site.'
After noting that Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe are the nominal props of the place, Trent wrote:
"MySpace is now just over two years old and is one of the biggest websites on the Internet. Yet no one knows where or how it came to be. Isn't it of millions of people's concern to know who runs the website they confide in so much ..."
"(Updated) I just wish someone besides me, preferably with a newspaper or legal team behind them, would break the full story..."
So now, Trent has written the full story, but it was squelched at one publication after threats of suits for a month of Sundays by the estimable Australian, who may be a secret pommy. So today, eight months after Trent's initial plea, the MSM still hasn't deigned to notice the curious circumstances of the sale of Intermix and MySpace to the Murdoch interests, the handing off of a hot tater by shadowy folks named Wiederhorn and COleman, Portland Ore and San Leandro Cal, and the reason their names haven't hit the mainstream in connection with a site that boasts a hundred million members, many of them children of your children, no doubt, all romping about in a site that has provided plenty of sore eyes.
So, today the hede, is:
"WTF: Why doesn't anyone ask who actually runs MySpace?'
almac, hallowell, the jewel in the hook of the Kennebec.
except f the MSM

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alan macleese — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:50:04 -0000

Mr. S:
I see by your blog that you are on a hiatus,but I have news of import and so intrude. My partner-in-virtue in investigatin MySpace, L.A. blogger Trent Lapinksi, e-mailed me Saturday last to say that his article on MySpace, an expose, which was all set for publication, was killed by his publisher (I do not know who publisher was) because of threats of a shitstorm of suits by Rupert Murdoch's minions. So now Trent has been paid in full by the affronted outlet, and has a bulletproof expose but no publisher. Trent, who just turned 20, took some of the money and ran to the Caribbean to regird his loins, but promises to return within the week and has talked with CNet, Wired and the L.A. Times about publication of his expose, and he doesn't know I am saying this but I mention it in honor of the transparency that seems to make this Internet thing work. Anyhow, movers and shakers on the web should know, I think, that a gallant young journo, perhaps a David, is being menaced by a Goliath, suppressed by a billionaire, if you will, which is ungood, PR-wise, one would think, but then thousandpoundgorillasprollydon'tgiveacare, Hallowellpenpal

Re: Secrets behind MySpace’s success

alan macleese — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:02:34 -0000

Mr. S: You know, you take a lot of undeserved guff from folks, but get the plaudits too, so you're ahead of the game.
I just wanted to boast to you about my taking part in the discourse over WTF we (and yes, I do have a turd in my pocket)should call the blogging reporter who, even as we speak,is coming into his or her own, the folks who will take centerstage from institutionalized reporters, those hampered by so many barriers between their typers and their readers that most of their best disappears into the ether around the water cooler. Or is it now the latte dispenser?
Anyhow, the way I get it, the term for the new perkless reporters seems to be either citizen journalists and networking journalists, and I know you know all this but I just wanted you to know I know all this and will stand by in case you need whatever it is I might be called on a Maine story. And thanks for letting me air my views on your blog, and, now that you mention the BBC and England, did I eery tell you about howe I got hired and fire by the UPI in London on the same evening? almacleese, the one who posted earlier about how the bloviation Station's chief gasbag, who presents himself as an Irish person, is oot an Irish person at all, and if the man will lie about his ancestry, to what levels wil he stoop. Almac from Hallowell across the Kennebec River from CHelsea.

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alan macleese — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:11:56 -0000

Scobie: I have this theory that the blogworld has risen up and, in its amazing collective wisdom,decided it has had enough of the bullshit dealt truthseekers in our circle, and is smiting the outfit kn own as theHole-inb-the-Heart gang (by me at least) with an awesome clap.
I started googling this morning. Igoogled Christopher T. DeWolfe, I googled Andrew ALan Widerhorn, Clarence Bud Coleman, Tom Anderson, Tiffany Wiederhorn, Ted Wiederhorn, Joan Coleman.
All these folks have been involved in dodgy stuff and four months ago you would not have learened about their dodginess by googling; all above named are the vbeneficiaries of various internet tricks to stop you from reading any bad stuff about them.
Now, all you can read is bad stuff about these people and I think that is because the Internet rose up in revulstion over the weay it had been used. Or is it just because I am closely involved and notice things and want them to be what I want them to be. B ut is odd, and it is underlined by the fact that when you sneak on over to Yahoo, why that crackerjack search engine never heard of Christopher T. DeWolfe,and Andrewe ALand Wiederhorn draws a blank too. Aks Jeeves, why not ask your brother-in-law, the one that doesn't read much and doesn;t realize how the real Jeeves wou ld be turning over in his fictional grave at the shitty job Ask Jeeves does, although I think they dropped the Ask and have the people that run the place, I seem to suspect, don't quote me, were big buddines with the MySpace crew that made thedirty deal that sent MySpace to the arms of Murdoch, the one who hires fake Irishmen to skew all the news you can use. Scobie, I never get a response to alll these e0mails and submissions I* am sending here and there, but I would like toask you: Am I right or are the blogs rising up in disgust against the blatant deceiv ers in their nice places in the valley> al macleese from hallowell,where today its citizens grabbed h alf theop-ed page of the Kennebec Journal to tell the KJ to stop playing nanny. You gotta read it to find out, this is what we call a teaster...

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alan macleese — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:03:35 -0000

Nr. S. It was unconsionable and even unprofessional for me to advance my theory that Fox's faux mick, the one who bloviates with an aplomb and ease that boggles this lesser bogtrotter... but wait, the fake Irisher in the employ of the other Irisher, Murdoch, is not an Irisher, I can tell a trueborn Irishman easily because my family weas the first, or perhaps among the first few, families inIreland, andwe have been keeping records for centuries and one of the things that vastly amuses us MacLeeses is our story aboutthe Oh Reallys, a group of gypsylike folks (and this is nothing against the gypsies) began appearing in that green place acrossthe oceanwide, in about 976, and were the spawn of invaders who had come and gone, but left the most unlikely of their lot in Ireland. These people became known as the Oh Reallys because everywhere they went they lied like rugs, stole stuff, and so everytime one of them would say something to a true Gael, why the Gawl would say, ")Oh, really" with the lovable Irish sarcasm, andsoon these itineratns were known through the land in every glen and dale as Oh REallys and then some ofthe crafiers ones amng them changed their names to real Irish names, the O'Reillys, land infiltrated to gain that respectablilty that otherwise would surely elude. Ihave all the documents on this Mr. S., and my theory, which I am going to patent, cannot be discussed here but i should say that if the fake bogtrotter at Fox, the partisan news channel, would take a DNA test it might give him a chance to prove to lie to this statement, but he should understand that we have the docs. almacleese from lovelyhallowell, where there will b e dancing in the streets Friday on Old Hallowell Days, music all over the place.

Re: Secrets behind MySpace’s success

alan macleese — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:35:59 -0000

Al from hallowell again. I was rereading this informative chat copy and saw where Danah Boyd made the astounding statement that we should, at all costs, prevent or disdain any moral outrage aboutthe shit thaty is going at MySpace, about the louts that run it, and about the felons and spammers and connivers and predators that spawned MySpace, a Bonnie and Clyde sort of doubled down villatins: Clarence B. and Joan Coleman, Californians, and Andrew Alan and Tiffany Wiederorn, they who put the Odious in Oregon. I have huge problems with Danah Boyd, who now knows of thevillatins behind MySpace before the firesale to the cunning Foxes, yet still prattles on about how most kids don't repond to strangers on the internet, andit is no more dangerous than city hall (in Baghdad?) and, in short, her line on MySpace is essentially the line that Dani Dudeck, MySpace flack, would take, and yet the Boyd woman could take part in a staged interview the detestable fake Irishman (probably the spawn or barbarians who invaded the Auld Sod and formincated amongs themselves, then took Irish names to gain a modicum of respectability. Yes, folks, the interview was staged, with the faux mick pretending he didn't know much about MySpace, if anything, but then, by his very doltish questions, revealed he knows exactly about MySpace because, WTF, he takes the Murdoch schulling and if he was a true Irishman he wouldn'ta be caught dead in Murdoch's bog, and never mind the fact that Murdoch is an Irisher, too, but shame on Danah Boyd, who sez she's an anthropologist, but really isn't, and seems to have become a useful idiot for the MySpace ship which, alas, is beginning to leak a few holes and if you do't believe me hop on over to ValleyWag...al macleese from hallowell, which is holding Old Hallowell Days on the fifteenth of this very month, so come on by, see the beavers building their granite dams...

Re: Secrets behind MySpace’s success

alan macleese — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 23:30:18 -0000

Scobleizer:
Nine weeks ago I posted a lament here, wondering why the true story of MySpace's sordid spawning and hasty selling had not been told by the print or TV media; the withheld truth being that MySpace, its parent company, Intermix, and the venture firms associated with them were owned and controlled by Andrew and Tiffany Wiederhorn, Portland Ore, and Clarence Bud Coleman and HISwife Joan, San Leandro Cal, and that these worthies had kept their involvement secret to the general public because of their notorious misadventures in predatory banking, and that, most galling of all when you think about it, put up a coupla cabin boys and baldly told us they were the geniuses responsbile for MySpace's astoungind success. Well, it's taken some time but ValleyWag just annuonced that blogger Trent Lapinski's piece coming this week will blow a hole in the MySPace barge for good and several reasons. And now outlets, if I may use that expression, such as Forbes, the WSJ, the NYT, are suddenly showing an interest in the doings of MySpace, andwhile none have yet uttered the names of Wiederhorn and Coleman, the thing is all over the INternet and it will probably pop about the same time the fiecracker people get organized. Happy Fourth from Hallowell Maine, where our lobsters voluntarily leap into boilding pots so as to prevent any Hallowellians from being charged with cruelty to crustaceans.

Re: Secrets behind MySpace’s success

alan macleese — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:32:45 -0000

Some enlightenment might be found on how MySpace became such a success if inquiring minds were to google Alan MacLeese or Catbird Seat in the Elephant Nest. More than two weeks ago MacLeese -- me -- posted a claim that the MySpace power was not the cabin boys Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson, but the owners, the powers in and behind the throne before the murky fire sale to Murdoch were and are: Andrew Alan Wiederhorn, disgraced Portland CEO,and his wife TIffany, and Andrews Alan's longtime mentor and moneyman, Clarence B. (Uncle Bud) Coleman, also disgraced but about a nonaagenarian and the guy who invented data mining, well, a little hyperbole is indicated. I have been working with blogger Trent Lapinski, who first raised the question: who owns MySpace. ANd was theatened with a suit, chased off briefly, then returned to his question andnow we have an answer and your question should be, why wouldn't andy and tiff and bud and jean want to bask in the admiration of millions for creating the largest internet social ineraction site in the known world. Because they are all disgraced? Could be. al macleese who lives in maine where life is the wasy it ought to be.

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Eros.am — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 05:06:37 -0000

you know with all these little stories about how myspace is doing this and doing that bla bla bla i just think its bunch of people trying to bring down a good thing, i mean its just a forum where people chat duh

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Jonathan Blundell — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:31:57 -0000

It's interesting to note that at least in Dallas, a majority of the students protesting immigration at city hall, organized via Myspace.

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bajajllaja — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:31:30 -0000

MySpace is addictive, that is how they got so many users... and there is a conspiracy MySpace Consipracy.

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anonymous — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:11:49 -0000

Connecticut Asks MySpace to Provide Blocking Software

http://www.consumeraffairs....

Here's an interesting link from yesterday addressing some of the safety concerns from the Connecticut Attorney General's perspective.

If their myspace.com blocking software is anything like their spyware from a couple years ago that got them sued by New York State, people are in for a nasty surprise.

Re: Secrets behind MySpace’s success

anonymous — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:56:33 -0000

"Actually the best ’social networking’ website that I have ever used is Craigslist"

Chris,
I would agree, but if you really want to see something that one could consider a shameless rip off;

Go and check out some of the classifieds on CraigsList, then check out the classifieds on the myspace.com website.

Somebody shamelessly cloned the craigslist look & feel, and functionality pretty closely.

Exibit A.
http://www.craigslist.com/
http://classifieds.myspace....

Exibit B.
http://www.craigslist.com/sss/
http://classifieds.myspace....

Re: Secrets behind MySpace’s success

Christopher Coulter — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:13:42 -0000

Actually the best 'social networking' website that I have ever used is Craigslist, common interets, common products, steady supply of customers, it's heavenly, even if too much used by the casual sex freaks, it still has other elements. Craigs beats MySpace to a punch and then some. Almost took it for granted when in California and now in my History Channel gig move to Peoria, has me in this bleak dry outlook. Peoria has to get Craigs. I can't live in a town without Craigs almost. MySpace is faddy, Craigs is eternal (or so I hope). It's one dot.com I'd actually send a resume to. All hail Craigs, life on the bottom of the dot.com's is better than the upper trendy crust.

Re: Secrets behind MySpace’s success

anonymous — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:35:17 -0000

"[…] Robert Scooble has an insider scoop about how MySpace got so popular — straight from MySpace’s CTO, Aber Whitcomb. […]"

DECEMBER 12, 2005

http://www.businessweek.com...

"De Wolfe knew the Internet business. Anderson cajoled Hollywood friends -- musicians, models, actors -- to join his online community, and soon the news spread. A year later, everyone from Hollywood teen queen Hilary Duff to Plano (Tex.) teen queen Adams has an account."

...

"When new users join, Tom becomes their first friend and invites them to send him a message."

...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id...
"Brad Greenspan, an early MySpace investor no longer affiliated with the site, said that after observing Friendster, "we just realized that to allow people more personalization and control would give people more attachment to their Web pages.""

Greenspan is now suing them for insider trading with Newscorp.
http://www.smartmoney.com/b...

They also mentioned that band profiles are the reason they were so much more popular than friendster. They won't mention the large scale spyware or the spam they ran as responsebase.com and other companies.

The point is that what Scoble got, and was completely satisfied with is the equivalent of a form letter response.
They give every one the same story and keep it straight amongst themselves. Scoble is not the type to digg deeper and get the real story.

The fact is Tom did not found myspace.com, and they have a very sordid, unpleasant history on the internet as a media company.