Chris DeWolfe points out, “Tom has a million ideas, and some of them are pretty good, some of them are a little wacky. But oh, this one was just a phenomenal idea” (DeWolfe).
Chris DeWolfe also notes, “It sounds crazy, but even in the first plan that I wrote up, I mentioned AOL, Yahoo! and Hotmail, knowing we would be big. And it’s crazy to think that it happened” (DeWolfe).
MySpace was founded in 2003 by former Friendster.com members Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe. Anderson and DeWolfe both saw a chance and an opportunity to beat Friendster.com with more choices and selections and fewer limitations and constraints for social network users. “MySpace was purchased in 2005 for $580 million by Rupert Murdoch creator of a media empire that includes 20th Century Fox and the Fox television stations” (MySpace). “Google paid $900 million to be MySpace's search provider” (MySpace).
MySpace is a social networking website, which offers personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, videos and music for adults and teenagers alike around the world. The headquarters is in Beverly Hill, California. MySpace permits all the users to customize their personal profile pages by entering HTML. The users of MySpace also have the choice to add music to their profile pages via MySpace Music. During 2007 and 2008, MySpace redesigned the layout and the functionality. More updates to MySpace are a possibility for 2009.
Other features within MySpace are “MySpaceIM,” “MySpaceTV,” “MySpace News,” “MySpace Mobile,” “MySpace Classifieds,” “MySpace Karaoke,” “MySpace Polls,” and “MySpace Forums,”
Click here to MySpace Quick Tour Page - then "Learn what MySpace is all about".
The founders of MySpace, Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe were reported to have made approximately $15 million each off of the sale of MySpace. MySpace has been going strong since inception in 2003 and continues to grow in numbers of users daily.
References:
Baker, Loren. MySpace : History of Spam & Deception Exposed. September 12, 2006 http://tinyurl.com/6qbuht
MySpace Facts. http://tinyurl.com/6g6f84
The Men Behind MySpace: How Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson First Met http://tinyurl.com/6rq3n2
Wikipedia. MySpace. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace
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