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MySpace.com is the leading lifestyle portal for networking online. Integrating web profiles, blogs, instant messaging, e-mail, music downloads, photo galleries, classified listings, events, groups, chatrooms, and user forums, MySpace.com has created a connected community where users put their lives online.
Chief Executive Officer
Owen Van NattaNumber of Employees 200
Contact Information
1223 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 402
Santa Monica, California 90401
(310) 917-4949
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NAICS Code All Other Publishers: 511199
Recent Events
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Suit Says Facebook Scammed Gamers Out of Information, Cash
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Google Partners With MySpace, Lala, Others for Music Search
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Facebook, MySpace May Share Content
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Facebook and MySpace 'in talks?' Of course
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Giving Away Privacy By Sharing Online?
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MySpace Uses Fusion-Powered I/O to Drive Greener Datacenters
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MySpace replaces all server hard disks with flash drives
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Oops! Hack lets anybody join the MySpace network on Facebook
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending October 9
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MySpace Music Goes Down Under
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Justice Dept. on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter
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Facebook Turns Off Beacon
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Employers Using Social Networking Sites To Research Job Candidates
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MySpace brings in Wendy Harris Millard to boost ads
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MySpace looks to regain momentum with iLike purchase
News & Analysis
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Where Your Customers Are: How Facebook, Twitter and Others Break Down by Age
BNET
- 2009-11-18
Do your homework before you approach your customers online. Here's how users on the top social media sites broke down by age in August 2009. by Staci Baird
Media Tech Summit: 'Twitter Is A Pulse?But It's A Biased One'
PaidContent
- 2009-10-06
One of the most well-received sessions at the Media Tech Summit went by so fast and was so stuffed with numbers that I wanted to have the slides in front of me before I did more than tweet about it. The Harvard Business School team of Miklolaj Jan Piskorski,...
Google Reader Now Lets You Launch Content to Twitter, Facebook, Digg
BNET
- 2009-08-13
Google Reader is turning into quite the launching pad for helping users share content. Now the service lets users post content to Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Blogger,Delicious, MySpace, Reddit and StumbleUpon. You'll find this capability in the "Send To" feature under the settings page in Reader. As you can see, if...
Google Reader Updates: Share News on Twitter, Facebook, and More
BNET
- 2009-08-12
Today confirms that Google's not giving up their quest to become more social media friendly. Earlier today they introduced a series of new iGoogle features that make it more of a social network than a start page, and just now they've released an update to your Google Reader to turn...
Digsby launches URL shortener, adds global status update feature
BNET
- 2009-08-12
Filed under: Internet, Windows, Social Software Multi-protocol chat client Digsby launched an update today with a handful of new features. First up, there's a new Global Status dialog that lets you set your status on multiple social networks including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace simultaneously. You can also update yoru...
More Companies Firing People Over Social Media (Mis)use
BNET
- 2009-08-11
Employees should be more careful than ever about what sort of work-related information they post online. A new report indicates that companies are growing increasingly aware of inappropriate sharing, with many incidents resulting in someone getting fired. Proofpoint found that businesses have definitely become wary about blogs. An official statement...
Facebook Users - Here's What FriendFeed Brings to the Family
BNET
- 2009-08-10
It's going to be a little like the Brady Bunch, this union between Facebook and the just-acquired social networking service FriendFeed. Both families will influence each other a lot, though Facebook is far, far bigger. (The youngest one in curls!) FriendFeed was co-founded by Paul Buchheit, the man who invested...
Marc Cuban Makes the Best Point of All About Charging for Content: Use Your Imagination! [BoomTown]
BNET
- 2009-08-10
Yesterday–in a somewhat rambling but also riveting blog post about charging for content–serial entrepreneur and perennial gadfly Mark Cuban made a very important point that execs at every large media company should take to heart, as they try to cope with the digital challenge. Use your noggins, why dontcha? Cuban...
Weekly Wrapup: Real Time Delicious, Read/Write Digg, Web Squared, And More...
BNET
- 2009-08-08
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze the impact of real-time information on the Web, investigate 'web squared' (when web 2.0 meets Internet of Things), tell you why cloud computing is the future of mobile, look at...
Twitter Pan, MySpace, Facebook, and Riding the Fad
BNET
- 2009-06-17
It's been a tough day for MySpace as the company fired nearly 30 percent of its workforce. When it's tough to tell whether the blood on the floors from the axing is flowing as fast as the printer ink as those who remain prepare resumes, the atmosphere is serious. However,...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Owen Van Natta | Chief Executive Officer |
| Courtney Holt | President, MySpace Music |
| Jason Hirschhorn | Chief Product Officer |
| Michael Jones | Chief Operating Officer |
| Valeh Vakili | Senior Vice President, Sales Strategy and Operations |
| Chris DeWolfe | Strategic Advisor |
| Connie Madden | |
| Geoffrey Y. Yang | Investor |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Amit Kapur | Board of Directors |
| Jim Benedetto | Board of Directors |
| Steve Pearman | Board of Directors |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Chief Executive Officer | Current |
| Facebook Inc. | Chief Operating Officer | Former |
| Facebook Inc. | Chief Revenue Officer & Vice President, Operations | Former |
| PlanetAll | Vice President, Business Development | Former |
| Amazon.com, Inc. | Vice President, Business Development | Former |
| Zip2 | Director, Sales | Former |
| Ziff Davis Holdings, Inc. | Sales Executive | Former |
| University of California Santa Cruz | B.A., English & American Literature | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | President, MySpace Music | Current |
| MTV Networks Company | Executive Vice President, Digital Music | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Chief Product Officer | Current |
| Computers for Youth | Board of Directors | Current |
| Tech Corps Georgia, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Sling Media | President | Former |
| MTV Networks Company | Chief Digital Officer | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Chief Operating Officer | Current |
| AOL LLC | Executive | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Senior Vice President, Sales Strategy and Operations | Current |
| Yahoo! Inc. | Director, U.S. Sales Operations | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Strategic Advisor | Current |
| MySpace.com | Chief Executive Officer | Former |
| Intermix Media, Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Former |
| MySpace.com | co-founder | Former |
| University of Southern California | MBA | Former |
| University of Washington | B.A. degree in Finance | Former |
Connie Madden is a freelance writer and publicist living in Petaluma, CA. As Secretary of Petaluma Tomorrow, she is steeped in local politics and community-building; as a blogger on ArgusCourier.com, Blogspot.com and MySpace.com and more, she looks at the world through many lenses. Connie Madden Communications is her company moniker, allowing her to take on a wide variety of projects from health care to work for peace, playwriting to support for a documentary on China. Connie sometimes served as a public relations account executive for major corporations in San Francisco and often works with one-person businesses including her partner's store, Jungle Vibes, in Petaluma. She is currently working with Ping Zhao & Associates to create a documentary on China and with Georgia Kelly of Praxis Peace, Sonoma, to create a conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia. She has worked with Dianne Feinstein on a video for the Food & Beverage Industry of San Francisco, handled publicity for United Nations 50th Anniversary events and published articles in the Argus Courier, Pacific Sun and the Journal of Humanistic Psychology among many others. You can google Connie Madden Communications or conniemadden@yahoo.com conniemadden@yahoo.com or call her at 707-781-9311.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Current | |
| Petaluma Tomorrow | Secretary | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Board of Directors | Current |
| MySpace.com | Chief Operating Officer | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Board of Directors | Current |
| MySpace.com | Senior Vice President, Engineering | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Board of Directors | Current |
| MySpace.com | Senior Vice President, Product Strategy | Former |
Geoffrey Y. Yang has served as a director of TiVo since October 1997. Since August 1999, Mr. Yang has been a Managing Director of Redpoint Ventures, a venture capital firm. Mr. Yang has been a general partner of Institutional Venture Partners, a venture capital firm since 1989. Mr. Yang is a director of Ask Jeeves, Inc., a provider of Web-wide search, and numerous private companies. Mr. Yang holds a B.S.E. degree in Engineering and Management Systems from Princeton University and an M.B.A. degree from Stanford University.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Redpoint Ventures | Managing Director | Current |
| Azul Systems Inc | Managing Director, Redpoint Ventures | Current |
| TiVo Inc. | Managing Director | Current |
| Red Point | Founder | Current |
| Institutional Venture Partners | General Partner | Current |
| BigBand Networks, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Azul Systems Inc | Board of Directors | Current |
| TiVo Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| MySpace.com | Investor | Current |
| MMC Networks | Investor | Current |
| Calix | Investor | Current |
| Juniper Networks, Inc. | Investor | Current |
| Western Association of Venture Capitalists | President | Former |
| Red Point | Founding Partner | Former |
| Redpoint Ventures | Partner | Former |
| Institutional Venture Partners | Venture Capitalist | Former |
| First Century Partners | Associate | Former |
| Western Association of Venture Capitalists | Director | Former |
| Stanford Graduate School of Business | M.B.A. | Former |
| Stanford University | M.B.A. Degree | Former |
| Princeton University | B.S.E. in Engineering and Management Systems | Former |
Executive News
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MySpace mail slated to launch this week
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MySpace Farms Out Overseas Ad Operations
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News Corp won't buy Twitter
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Murdoch Balks at Twitter Buy, MySpace Sale
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Murdoch Not Interested in Twitter and Won't Sell MySpace
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News Corp won't buy Twitter, won't sell MySpace
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UPDATE 2-News Corp won't buy Twitter, won't sell MySpace
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Startups Smell Userplane Blood
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Redefining MySpace
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ANALYSIS-MySpace begins redefining its space
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UPDATE 2-MySpace to cut two-thirds of global workforce
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