myspace

MySpace is a social networking website with an interactive user-submitted network of friends personal profiles blogs groups photos music and videos for teenagers and adults internationally. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills California USA where it shares an office building with its immediate owner Fox Interactive Media which is owned by News Corporation. In June 2006 MySpace was the most popular social networking site in the United States.According to comScore MySpace was overtaken internationally by main competitor Facebook in April 2008 based on monthly unique visitors. The company employs 300 staff and does not disclose revenues or profits separately from News Corporation. The 100 millionth account was created on August 9 2006 in the Netherlands and the site counted approximately 106 million accounts on September 8 2006 After the 2002 launch of Friendster several eUniverse employees with Friendster accounts saw its potential and decided to mimic the more popular features of the social networking website in August 2003. Within 10 days the first version of MySpace was ready for launch. A complete infrastructure of finance human resources technical expertise bandwidth and server capacity was available for the site right out of the gate so the MySpace team wasnt distracted with typical start-up issues. The project was overseen by Brad Greenspan eUniverse s Founder Chairman CEO who managed Chris DeWolfe MySpace s starting CEO Josh Berman Tom Anderson MySpace s starting president and a team of programmers and resources provided by eUniverse