Tag: Tom Anderson
Here you have part of the critical and exhaustive investigation about the MySpace untold history by Trent Lapinski.
Most users believe that MySpace started as some kind of fluke--a happy accident that began in Anderson's bedroom or garage--and many still don't wonder, know, or care about the site's real business history and model. Heralded as a haven of DIY self-expression, MySpace was actually created by executives whose backgrounds are anchored in spam and mass marketing, and who are tied to investment scandals. With his almost...
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About four months ago Trent Lapinski was hired by an online publisher as a freelance journalist to write an article detailing the history and business model of MySpace.com. Due to groundless legal implications, the article he had written was no longer to be published. Here you have the article published by Nick Douglas @ Valleywag:
1. MySpace is NOT a viral success. MySpace was advertised on mass levels to reach the public. MySpace was created by a company named eUniverse (who later changed their name to Intermix Media). eUniverse was a...
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A record-breaking heatwave which crippled power systems throughout California shut down MySpace.com for nearly 12 hours, starting on Sunday night.
The popular social-networking site, which recently topped Yahoo! Mail as the most-visited website in the US, was disabled entirely as of 18:40(PT) on Sunday.
The homepage was replaced by a placeholder with a message from MySpace founder Tom Anderson, who said the site was dealing with a power outage in its data centre. He cited the time as 18:40(PT) and estimated MySpace would "hopefully" be...
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Multiple anonymous sources have reported that MySpace's co-founder and poster boy Tom Anderson ran a porn site on the side of his day job. He was fired, says one source, when the company caught him running his site while on the clock.
The site was called TeamAsian.com [now redirects to GreatDate.com]. Another source says Tom photographed the models himself, and that Tom was almost sued for sexual harrassment. But, says this source, Tom sold the site to a domain parking company and blocked access from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
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