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Former MySpace CEO and LA tech guru explains Facebook’s brilliant strategy to...
Science Inc CEO Mike Jones knows something about disruption. In the late 2000s, he was tasked with righting the ship at MySpace, even as the rest of the world fell in love with Facebook.Now on the...
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Kim Kardashian's MySpace page from 2006 has been unearthed
Kim Kardashian West may be referred to as "The Queen" by her biggest fans, but once upon a time she was merely a princess.At least, that's how she referred to herself on her MySpace page in...
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The mistakes this MySpace CEO says he's not repeating at his new startup
The best successes often arise from failures. Chris DeWolfe, the former CEO of MySpace, is applying the lessons he learned at the once red-hot social networking company to a new venture with big...
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This guy created the frog meme that's all over the internet — here’s why he’s...
You might think that for someone whose creation turned into one of the most popular memes online, the most frustrating part would be the complete lack of payment that comes with that type of fame.But...
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MySpace has undergone a 'surprising renaissance' and now it's going after teens
With Facebook now reaching more than 1 billion users in a single day, many people have resigned MySpace — which over a decade ago made online social networking mainstream — to the history books.And...
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The multimillionaire founder of MySpace now travels the world taking...
Remember Tom Anderson?The founder of MySpace was assigned as the first friend of everyone who joined the social network — connecting him to hundreds of millions of people around the globe.The glory...
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The 13 most impressive brand comebacks of all time
Every once in a while, a popular brand falls off the map.During that time they have two choices: accept defeat or make a comeback plan.In the chance the brand chooses to make a comeback, a huge...
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Myspace was just acquired by 94-year-old magazine company Time (TIME)
Time Inc., the owner of Time, Fortune, and People magazines, has acquired Viant, the parent company of Myspace.Joe Ripp, chairman and CEO of Time Inc., described the acquisition as "game changing" in a...
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The CEO of Myspace tells us why he just sold the company to Time Inc. (TIME)
Myspace surprisingly popped back into the tech headlines again on Thursday when Time Inc. announced it is acquiring the social network's parent company Viant.Viant is a big ad tech player, founded by...
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You may need to change your Facebook or Netflix password — but not because...
You may need to change your password on Facebook or Netflix, but it's not because those two services suffered a breach.Instead, due to recent data dumps of old breaches of usernames and passwords from...
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Look inside a Myspace cofounder's $3.3 million Venice pad
Myspace cofounder Aber Whitcomb is selling his modern home in Venice, California, the Los Angeles Times reported. He's asking $3.3 million for the home, which is a mix of contemporary and classic...
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Time Inc. CEO: 'I hadn't even gone to the MySpace website before we bought...
When the 94-year-old magazine company Time Inc. acquired the ad-tech firm Viant in February, all anybody could talk about was that MySpace — which Viant bought back in 2011 — was back in the...
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These websites defined the early 2000s — here's where they are now
Much of the internet in the early 2000s was defined by websites that ushered people into a new age of social media and online entertainment.Take Friendster for example — the massively popular site...
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Here's why some women in tech cite MySpace as their entry point
If you had a MySpace profile back in 2006, you know that customizing it was key. Having a unique background, profile picture and song choice was important. But in order to really stand out, you needed...
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The multi-millionaire founder of MySpace retired before he was 40 to travel...
If you were a teenager with a computer in the early aughts, there's a good chance you had a profile on MySpace, the music-centered predecessor to Facebook.Nearly 76 million people used the social...
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Until recently, a hacker could have gotten into your old Myspace account with...
You may not have thought much about your Myspace page in a long time, but you might want to give it some thought now. It turns out, there was — until very recently — an easy way to hack into Myspace...
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51 discontinued tech gadgets we once loved and will never see again
As near and dear as some tech products are to our hearts, they can't always withstand the test of time.Sony Walkmans were replaced by CDs, which were then replaced by iPods, which were then replaced by...
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Musicians are freaking out after learning Myspace lost 50 million songs
Myspace had quietly acknowledged a massive data loss in response to user inquiries last year, but it took until this weekend for the greater public to begin to become aware that all music uploaded to...
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Zuckerberg told employees that he would have been fired several times over if...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees he would have been fired from the company he founded multiple times if he were not in total control.Casey Newton at The Verge obtained audio recordings and...
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These are 13 of the most popular social networks a decade ago that have died...
Social media has drastically changed in the last decade, introducing platforms like Instagram, Snapchat and Tinder into our daily routine.While Facebook was undoubtedly the king of social in 2010,...
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