July 1, 2011
This week, News Corp sold MySpace for $35 million, a property they had purchased for $580 million. What lessons are in this for niche social networks? Here’s my take: Lessons for Niche Networks You’ve got to execute better and faster than the competition. It always seemed to be party time on the MySpace site, and [...]
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March 30, 2009
Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America, is an unofficial but well-researched account of the rise of this popular, scrappy social networking website. Julia Angwin, technology editor of the Wall Street Journal, charts the story — from a Friendster rip off in 2003 through the purchase by Rupert Murdoch’s News [...]
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