I believe 29 other companies came along with that multi-million figure.


Good post. I was going to do something on this, if I got the chance. THe Duke will flip his lid. :-)

I don't see this as a cause for worry. Fox markets their TV fare to a younger audience, and that ties in well with the purchase. Plus remember that Murdoch is first and foremost a businessman, and if MySpace makes money then he's not going to mess with it. His politics are largely irrelevant to how he runs his businesses. He's not a moralistic type at all - Fox News was conceived to fill a market need and filled it well and made money. It's less an expression of his politics than of his smart business sense.

Dave

crap. I have a myspace profile and I love the site. I don't even use it to meet people... but the music hook up is great. I was able to stream the new foo Fighter and Billy Corgan discs from there. It is a wonderful site, but the thought of Fox owning it bums me out.

I am not going to bail out of principle though. Instead I will stick it out and if they try to mess with it I will report back here.

www.myspace.com/iamcorrect

As Temple mentioned, the Duke is in there too. You can find him in my friends.

Just because its on here... Does it mean its TRUE?? or just a bunch of BS? If this is all true then why haven't the ownders to myspace said anything about this to the ppl who have a myspace?? I have a myspace and it's great. Well, will have to wait and see what is true and what is not. I will believe it when i see it from Tom or Chris on myspace.. Other than that..i think its just a bunch of whoha.

wow.
just wow.
i have a Myspace too.
Its addicting.
wowww

Render unto Murdoch what is his and unto God what is God's. Sumner Redstone, your country is calling.

Now that Tom sold out, we'll see nothing but banners and pop-up ads. It's gonna die very soon. It lost its soul.

It seems that Murdoch got a good deal. With the future in mind, myspace could have approached a $1 billion.

Tom sold out months ago. What they aren't telling you is that Intermix Media bought myspace from Tom for $11.5 million in February. They are an online advertising company and bought them under the condition that Tom stay and keep the site feeling "grassroots". When intermix posted $79 Million in profits last year the corporations took notice and it was a bidding war for the prize: unlimited access to americas uncencored youth. Check out:

Intermix Media, Inc buys myspace
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/050629/mix10-k.html

NewsCorp. buys Intermix Media
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=ae.MCdMTEEcM

Draw your own conclusions.

"It's less an expression of his politics than of his smart business sense."

you're a crackhead.

Hey, No Brain, do you think the Fox Network represents Conservative Family Values as expressed by the commentators on Fox News.

Hint. Say yes and you're an idiot. Say no and you were an idiot on July 20th at 12:30 am. Your choice.

Dave

Own3d.

Who cares?

MySpace is by far the worst of the 3 - for one, they weren't original (Friendster should've patented the idea and locked them out), but more importantly, MySpace is the "HotOrNot?" for morons - it's all about buff dudes and phoney chicks with no brain cells to rub together. While people might complain that the music stuff (which came along much later) is MySpace's redeeming feature, the fact remains that it's mainly a bottom-feeders' hookup site.

The whole concept is a joke nowadays. Friendster became the forgotten red-headed stepchild when their servers couldn't handle the load, and Orkut was completely overrun by Brazilians who, much like the Mexicans coming back to re-take California, could give two sh*ts that English is the de-facto lingua franca of the Internet. These sites' 15 minutes of fame is up. I don't know a single friend who is active on any of them. We all got accounts when they started, and now they just gather dust. I won't mourn their demise.

Pfft, not true :)

http://blog.myspace.com/murdoch_rupert

Kid hobo, Please make your link clickable, and have a comment or something.

Your barren link messes up the collumns.

Thanks!

DJ, everything on here is true, except the parts that aren't.

We've scooped the major news sites on smaller stories a couple of times -- apparently including this one.

If it does die, that means I finally get my life back.

Like RiotNerrrd said above, myspace is by far one of the worst services, and Friendster should've patented the idea.

Tell me one thing, if you are listening to a CD on the computer and you're rocking out while you are surfing the web and you happen to be checking out myspace; chances are you're gonna be bombarded with some form of music from someone's profile that you do not want to hear. You're gonna be pissed right??? That's what turned me off. My entire music library is from Itunes. I mean their site is full of kids, not 18-25 year olds as the article says; I've seen kids on there as young as 10 years old, and nothing is ever done about it.
Plus from a computer programming standpoint which is my focus of study, it's basically chaotic seeing the mediocre HTML work on that website b/c they allow their users to mess with it themselves; that's why you see ocean scene backgrounds with light blue writing (that also causes major headaches).

To put it simply, Friendster had problems in the past, but has stayed true and has not sold out. Let's say forget about myspace and re-populate Friendster.

It matters not, where the oblivion of misconcepted view points from those who aim to oppose the accellerated new found successes of one man. Who, incidently, knew NOT, of just HOW FAR the extensive explosion of his inner potential through the improvised innovative network he created, would go. HE...in fact was annointed, by the powers that be, to recieve the flourishes of his creation instead of the primaries of the pavers before him. Because success in this day of age, aspires by those who were not expecting it. It is a cultivated stronghold of the phrase, "EXPECT NOTHING and GAIN EVERYTHING" vs. the sub-minded inner projective opinions of those who have remarkably done nothing to accell they're OWN successes, and obviously posess no positive inquiry to heighten the wonderfully blessed attributes and new found wealth of others, but however instead, devise only comments to tear down and ridicule the continued successes of others who've recieved handsome offers by kamakaze corporate contenders in the mediocrity of such a vast shark feeding circus of a world. In other words....DON'T FUCKING HATE!!! because YOU have FAILED excessively! Or because he pulled in a WHALE and you only got a tuna sandwich. Give the guy props, man, instead of moronic self absorbed pity and chastisement, based on the shortcomings of your OWN failed conceptions that you never had the fucking BALLS to launch, or what could have, or WOULD HAVE been your feeble ass claim to FAME! Just sit there and ponder the simplistic fact of reality, while you kick yourself, repetitively in the ass....asking yourself the question over & over again, and that QUESTION BEING, "Why THE FUCK DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT!" Because THAT is what unconditionally has you PISSED! YOU SICKEN ME! YOU DENY THE SYSTEM AS YOU EMBRACE IT! THE TRUE SUCCESS OF OTHERS! vs your OWN FAILED ATTEMPTS. By nature, we are all biologically connected. What Tom has accomplished is phenomenal, he has junctioned millions and millions of people together forming a circuit of PURE ENERGY. Using, adapting, improvising in a pre existing formula for bringing people TOGETHER!!!! As GOD INTENDED it and wants us ALL to be. JUST THAT! TOGETHER!!!!! Not DIVIDED! Only the "Enemy" loves and embraces division, so do the MATH! and TRY to conduct a more POSITIVE outlook on this guy or anyone ELSE'S for that matter SUCCESS...and then ask YOURSELF, what has it been, that has kept YOU from SUCCEEDING!!! Do this before you begin JUDGING and condemning the successions of your fellow man. Because incidently and contrary to popular belief my friends, ANY and ALL of YOU, for that kind of LOOT? Would have "SOLD OUT" too. I know I would HAVE, and that's ok! It's ok to SELL OUT to CORPORATE!THIS IS AMERICA, THIS IS THE WORLD!, WE BUY AND SELL DAILY!, our nations ECONOMY is BASED ON IT! from the beginning of TIME! So it's OK! to sell out to corporate, as long as one NEVER sells out to...TRUE FRIENDS! Be WELL!
- D. R. STORM

Thats really messed up. If myspace starts chargeing looks like im going back to Xanga!

http://www.myspace.com/15549214

hhhmmm...My Space. I am a computer retard, but I just put www.myspace.com/x15 up their. Oh well, we'll just see what happens.

FUCK that!! to the people who think myspace is so fucking bad! Try finding friends you havn't seen in years and being able to find them and fucking talk to them. Just because youthink you are a fucking genious or something and you probobly fucking nit pick at everything in the fucking world b/c you think everything is against you or something. WELL GEUSS WHAT it is you neive stupid peices of UGLY SHIT!!!!!!!
ps myspace is awesome

Discussion of MySpace seems to attract people who can't spell and rave uncontrollably. What does that tell us about MySpace?

Dave

i have a myspace
its addicting
and i love it!
as long as we dont have to pay anything, i'll be fine!
<33

For all you MySpace fans out there:

http://www.myspace.com/murdoch_rupert

Wow, what a brain damaged bloglet you have. I love the juxtaposition of the attempt to smear murdoch with lame and innacurate descriptions of his beliefs and the real quotes you include which show him to be a smart and responsible businessman.

Dave

I'M SAD THAT MYSPACE WAS SOLD... I FEEL THAT I HAVE NO PRIVACY NO MORE... I THOUGHT IT WAS A PLACE FOR FRIENDS.. AND NOW THE GOVERNMENT OWNS IT... I KNOW TOM DESERVES HIS MONEY FOR HIS HARD WORK... BUT I FEEL THAT WE SHOULD BE WARNED OF THE TAKE OVER... I DON'T TRUST THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION... AND I JUST FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE A LOT TO DO WITH THIS... CAUSE... WE HAVE A LOT OF INFO AND REALLY ITS THE BEST WAY TO KNOW DIFFERENT PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE AND ANY OTHER DETAILS THEY MAKE IT SOUND AS IF IT IS TO ADVERTISE... BUT THATS WHAT THEY WANT US TO THINK....

I'M SO SAD... ABOUT THIS TAKE OVER NOW I DON'T KNOW IF I EVEN WANT TO BE A PART OF MYSPACE ANY MORE. THAT JUST TOOK THE WHOLE FEEL OUT OF IT.

in response to elisa--
the government doesn't own myspace, a media corporation does. and i highly doubt the buying of myspace has anything to do with the bush administration...but nice try.

I just finished organizing a MASSIVE festival, and i put all the bands and Djs together only with myspace. Get this, I HATE networking sites, Friendster, Hi 5 are all useless!!, Myspace let me hook up with old college buddies and even helped me network on the internet, which I never did before. Tom you idiot, how could you sell it to Rupert f�n Murdoch the most vile of media mogul douchebags?. The site is probably gonna go to crap, just like MP3.COM

People who despise a website need to get a life. It's a website. A web... site.

Anyway, for my part, I have reconnected with old friends. I'm not lazy, so I can stop the music from playing by pointing my mouse pointer over the stop button and, generating enough energy in order to come up with the required effort (which is enormous, apparently), click it. How novel. So, people use it to meet other peope? So what? So, some people are HTML-dumb and make their profile look like crap. So what? Don't go there. But for crying out loud, if the place is so vile you have to talk trash about it, then why bother even going to it?

Just some musings...

Who the hell cares what Billy Corgan has to say about this.

excellent job Stone, thanks, very important news

All those saying myspace sucks. Well from a web developers viewpoint, it does indeed. It's unorganized and built extremly confusing and shitty. But ....

a lot of people use it, and it's very effective at doing what it's meant to do, connecting you with people.

I just found it last week myself and I've already met a girl in my area and we've hit it off and couldn't be happier. I love myspace now and i hope it stays around.

This is so gay, i'm VERY upset...but I will not be upset yet. I'm def not mad at Tom. Tom, you do ur thing man u deserve the cash! However, I am TERRIFIED at what might happen to the site by corporate America owning it...and if it becomes a paysite...I'M OUT!!! I will also tell all of my a lil over half a million friends to leave the site too, and i'm sure they will all tell there friends, and so on and so forth, and we will just have to make a new one...that's free again!
lol

michael, gay? In the sense that two companies of the same sort are co-mingling, you mean? One's publicly-traded and the other's private, though. Isn't that hetero?

:-)

calling things gay is so gay

Earnestly responding to such comments as if one is oblivious to the slang vernacular -- also gay. I confess.

dude wtf?
myspace has a millions of users.
wtf is gonna happen to them?
there gonna be devastated.
i am COMPLETLEY ADDICTED to myspace.
and if it goes away that would really piss me off.
its help me get to know freinds,guys ive liked and everything.
theres no reason for this.
this is gay.

ha! those emo kids have no place to go now, i admit, i too have a myspace but i really cant see why someone would spend 3 hours on it every day, some of those kids have thousands of "friends" on there, thousands...

why would someone do that and how could that not be a major thing in that persons life??

i think a lot of people are going to be crying their little emo eyes out because myspace is going mainstream and they wont be able to converse with theire 296275986729576 friends regularly without being bothers by ads for the OC and laguna beach

hahaha

"Earnestly responding to such comments as if one is oblivious to the slang vernacular -- also gay."

Earnestly responding to such comments may come from the fact that many people find the vernacular offensive and upsetting. Hey, as long as one doesn't insult anyone other than the queers...

(Eric and Mr. Winn, I heart you.)

likewise Nat

>excellent job Stone, thanks, very important news

Thanks Eric. I see I've brought out the MySpace loyalists, too

so is tom rich?

for he record, Rupert Murdoch is a fascist turd.

"fascist turd" or "turd-like fascist"?

Basically the government is running myspace. Corporations are backed by government officials. Doing research for draft contenders. Basically just be careful and be smart of what you say. Murdoch is a very smart man just to let all you folks know that are into myspace those banners you see on myspace are paying at least anywhere from 4G's a month to 100Gs a month each one of those banners. Also Myspace is the top 10 most visited site on the net. I dont think Mr Murdoch is dumb, I'd say he's smart and creative.

Are you all fcking retarded?I cannot believe you are so useless as to actually believe this is about anything more than money!
For you to be fearful is beyond pathetic! Even if by some bizarre "right-wing plot" myspace is turned on it's side, WHO CARES?!!?!?!?!?

Go outside and live! It's so sad to me that you're "TERRIFIED"!!! The big bad neo-cons are gonna get you!
As for privacy, Intermix (the first company that bought MySpace) was ordered to pay up in court because of unethical spying practices! Where were you morons on that transaction?)


You're precious elite liberal media will be just fine!!!!

Get a life! Get a clue!

Okay steve you pegged us. We are indeed all f*cking retarded. Join us in our success, I mean our retardation.

For the record: I am the guy who created the Rupert Murdoch satire profile: http://www.myspace.com/murdoch_rupert

Problem is that after a week, MySpace pulled me from the site citing 'streaming pornography'. Total BS! I was censored. After a reporter from the LA Times called the company to inquire, they hurridly put my profile back up, but revoked my ability to post bulletins and or blogs on the site. IE, censorship.

The fact that somebody can speak as if business decisions are not affected by politics in all aspects is ridiculous. FOX will come in and screw everything up for all myspacers, unless you wanna pay monthly! Enjoy it while it lasts!!!

Corporate Buyouts happen all the time. We'll get used and/or get over it. If not, you leave and find something else...

here

True that, LR.

Im out~its simple~do I want to support one of the biggest supporters of the war~FOX~ hell no~ I shut down after recreating myspace~took off everything personal and for 2 days I posted of every truth about the evil corporation I could find and today I stand behind my principles~I SHUT DOWN~why everyone else is so SUCKED in that they cant back what they say...my friends all said oh Im against the war but oh I cant quit myspace, Im waiting for the grass roots version NO ADS NO FOX And btw TOM U SUX

MYSPACE IS A REALLY COOL SITE WHERE PEOPLE CAN INTERACT WITH NEW PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE WORLD WIDE WEB. I THINK IT'S UNFAIR THAT THIS SITUATION HAS OCCURRED.I WANT TO STAY ON MYSPACE AND NOT HAVE TO PAY A $5.50 CHARGE TO KEEP MY ACCOUNT. THIS IS REALLY UNFAIR TO MYSPACE MEMBERS AND IT'S SO UNJUST THAT THIS WHOLE CATASTROPHE HAS OCCURRED!! I AM A MYSPACE USER AND I'M ADDITCTIED TO IT!!!!

I think MYSPACE.COM was great. Now it is all corporate. People wake up! $580 million includes your email addresses, info and habits. I dont think Fox is paying for the site, but its users! Get ready to be used. It is all business since Intermix bought it a while ago. I tried contacting MySpace twice to do a music promotion advertising and I havent heard back from them. So much for loving the artist! I was gonna pay you know! Obviously something is wrong. Ill be working on a site that is ten times better than myspace that actually performs a function in the music industry and community. I loved MySpace.com for what it was. I am not selling out to major labels or the FOX networks. POWER to the CONSUMER and BUYER. Its a matter of time that the site will lose its appeal. Good time to sell Tom! Oooops I mean Intermix... I guess selling out twice is interesting! Hey, it IS a business after all! And I thought this was a cool, independantly-handled fun site... $580 million is overpriced UNLESS everyones email addresses, habits and info is part of the deal. What do you think? I think were not stupid. I could care less if thy charge a fee. Im more about the atmosphere and environment. It's just starting to look dull...

People just dont get it ~ but why would they, blind and brainwashed they go~lots of things are COOL but who is benefiting from it....will amerika ever wake up ....I DOUBT IT~ so go ahead rupert get all thier info so when the revolution comes they will know right where to get you, what you read, who you listen too, where you stand~blind little sheep led to the slaughter~

Looks like MySpace just "Jumped the Shark"....

you guys are all f'n lame.

this is an actual message that i received from tom... isnt he a nice guy... he (or whoever emails for him) has sent me three unprovoked emails which contain nonsense... i finally threatened him with sending petitions and boycotts to advertisers if he didnt stop the harassing messages... then he stop. f- tom... myspace is on a downslide.



----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Tom
Date: Jul 27, 2005 1:43 AM

what i can't fathom is that a grown man would think we'd program our system to delete anti-fox sentiment.

i get that from 15 year olds who've watched too many michael moore movies, not adults.

your message was posted to gather attention and inflame people's anger about fox - not because you thought there was a bug. grow up.

Quote
"I don't see this as a cause for worry. Fox markets their TV fare to a younger audience, and that ties in well with the purchase. Plus remember that Murdoch is first and foremost a businessman, and if MySpace makes money then he's not going to mess with it. His politics are largely irrelevant to how he runs his businesses. He's not a moralistic type at all - Fox News was conceived to fill a market need and filled it well and made money. It's less an expression of his politics than of his smart business sense."

Shut the fuck up you little fucking Murcock PR bitch!! I'd bitch slap you if I could see you.

Nate

Ruin MySpace? How?

who gives a shit if they make us pay we just wait for another idiot like to to make one and sell it

What ticks me off about coverage of the Myspace/Intermix acquisition has been that the media seem to be allowing Tom (Myspace's guru) just skate by and make the most misleading statements. Furthermore, the press

The facts are this:
* News Corp didn't buy Myspace. They bought Intermix Media. Intermix Media just got caught by the NYS Attorney General's office for sneaking in spyware/adware through their products without consent. That is by their own admission.

* Myspace is already loaded with annoying advertisement up the wazoo. So much that when I was a Myspace user, I absolutely refused to log in from anything other than Firefox w/ Adblock installed.

* Even if Rupert Murdoch doesn't necessarily control what goes on your crappy Myspace blog, your presence on (indeed, the very act of viewing of) Myspace is now a source of revenue for him. I don't know about you, but that's fairly disturbing.

So the instant I heard News Corp. bought Intermix, I didn't put up a protest page. I didn't put up a parody profile. I put up a factually-based analysis of it in a bulletin, and told it like it is: all your profile is now is a source of money for a company that trades on bigoted, racist, right-wing news. And as such, I friggin' refuse to support it. I let it stay up for a week, and then kicked my Myspace profile to the curb.

If you want a possible scenario re: what will happen to myspace, just check out the latest offerings from the major record labels, following merger upon merger upon merger. Funny that I just joined myspace, but don't know if I will populate my page with anything because of the new Fox association. Supporting those who support Bush or his pocket-lining in any way is not on my to do list. And being a member will allow Murdoch's Corp. to keep saying "14 million new members" and in turn draw their advertising dollars.

Here's a radical idea: all myspace members should mass-exodus from myspace right now, instead of acting like "wait and see" sheep. Then "they" will start paying attention, because we'll have hit "them" in their advertising dollar-filled wallet. That'll get some notice! People in the US are just so bloody willing to go along to get along. And they'll buy anything if it's a copy (and vote for it too--yeehaawww). If you read the list of things about "what makes America great", those two things are not on it.

People simply have to stop being lazy and thinking that things will not change. If you don't like the change, then vote with your feet and your money, and take your friends with you. It might just be the right time to find, or make, the next new innovative little thing. There's always going to be one so go and invent it or find it.

It seems to me that myspace members should be informed and from there will either decide to act like "wait and see" sheep , or leave myspace before it becomes every little unique underground/corporate bought out company filled to the brim with ads and spyware/adware. Personally , i never liked myspace . It so annoying , when i hear people ask " OMG DID U SEE MY NEW MYSPACE LAYOUT?! or I PUT A NEW VIDEO UP! " Its cool that u can find old friends and meet new ones , but some people spend so much time doing something thats really un-social thats supposed to benefit their social life? wtf. If u want , make a geocities website , or xanga at least. myspace just screams immature , pokemon/yu-gi-oh trend , for those of u who know what i mean. Get over it , i know alot of u had to look through the music and video and layout codes site to make ur myspace look cute or pretty or slutty or anime or gothy or emo or hardcore. Get over it and talk to people in real life , thats how u make real friends.
In the meantime , start disembling the personal info on ur myspace before its too late , like habits or secret info u think u or ur friends only know. Your about to come under the looking glass , and Rupert Murdoch and Fox (and maybe the goverment) are the one holding it.

omg if myspace is sold i know alot of people that r leving WELL OVER A 200,000 SO tom cant sell hes good at keepin the site like it is!

What is with these people talking about "if"?

Guys, myspace.com is under new ownership. It's done. There is no "IF" about it.

I never got addicted to MySpace. I just had a bunch of random bands try to add me to their friends list or invite me to their groups. All I really ever did was play the games in the middle of the night when I couldn't sleep.

As for finding long lost friends? I've had more luck with that on TheFacebook. But again, none of those sites do I think I could spend 30 minutes on, let alone three hours.

Power to those who love it. Power to those making money off of it. Who really cares?

well, myspace has decided to block all connections from BT Broadband in the UK over the past few days. see http://forums.techguy.org/t375745.html for details.

this is not a good start for the new ownership, they've already alienated tens of thousands of people by default. it can only get worse - you just watch.

I find it interesting that no one has mentioned the simple issue of media conglomeration. For the record, I cancelled my myspace account the day the purchase was announced. I'm not particularly concerned with the consequences of the buy-out; although it's reasonable to assume that your privacy may be compromised or that there will be "premium service" charges. Murdoch didn't pay over half a billion dollars for nothing. However, my issue with all of this is the fact that one entity owns a massive portion of radio, television, publishing, film, and (now) Internet media. Does anyone have a problem with this?

problem with media conglomerate mergers...

in a word...

fuck yes

ok, that's two words...

note, the collapse of "equal time" for political speech via the public airwaves in the 80's

the mergers and aquisitions after "deregulations" to stop just such occurences in the 90's

and some folks wonder why we get such dreck in the 21st century?

see reap and sow

nuff said?

Excelsior!

i am way addicted to myspace. its like my cell phone, i loose it, i loose connection with the world. i check it multipul times daily and find so many people on it. i even take pictures of fun things i do just to put them on myspace. its tight

myspace is done. buzznex.com will be the next big thing, just wait and see. these kinds of sites are jere to stay and buzznex is going to blow myspace away because it can do so much more.

yea man myspace bought by fox...is anything safe anymore?


well I too am on myspace.... but i also joined this site similar to myspace..called www.buzznex.com if all else fails I have this site....heck i even think its better than myspace.

There are alternatives like nodelist if people are worried about the out come of the myspace purchase.

Hahahahahaha, the fact that people would give a shit about such a thing as myspace just proves exactly how low our society has become. Myspace is overrun by the most mindless shit known to man, with people trying to be trendy and cool, fit in with the "scene". Very few people actually use it only for friends. It's true that it's good for music, but that fact is only because the fact that almost every idiot can use myspace, and the fact that music myspace profiles are easily accessed by those who "befriend" them. I could care less about myspace, I just hope that some of you can read my words and understand that you're fighting a useless battle, things are bound to either die in one way or another. I'm just grateful that myspace will die.

myspace is alright as a tool to get music out there...yeah i know there's alot of bad music out there, but its one of the better and more easy to use and wide reaching sites for bands to post music...of course, the bands who just randomly spam other users are douches, but if its just there for your friends to hear your music, it's ok.....but i would never get a personal page, those things always seemed like they're often such a desperate cry for attention....if they came out with a better music posting page where actual people visit and it's not just a musician's version of a sausage fest, then i'd ditch myspace in a second...

the evil has already begun.
i am a nightclub promoter and my promotion content has begun dissapearing bit by bit over the last week. pictures, posts, bulletins, comments, etc.

he's is going to ruin a brilliant network and marketing tool all in the name of Networks and Marketing.

Asshat.

You're a nightclub promoter and you dare to call anyone else evil? :)

Just kidding, Bianca. You sound hot, especially with a name like Bianca.

What city do you promote in? Bring in more trance and deep house DJs -- it's the future and you'll get a hipper clientele. Not yet another hip hop night unless you want a bunch of lame kids with fake IDs and gangstas. Get one really good, respected resident dance DJ with a following and keep him/her around and playing gigs for you.

I hate people who use and capitalize the phrases "Networking" and "Marketing." I've done some club promoting in my college days, and the secret is to print up a bunch of really slick, annoying flyers to waste paper on. These days, get a website with a really popular message board or get a lot of people signed up for your e-mail list with promises of free or reduced guestlist privileges so they'll show up.

Forget Ladies' Night (unless it's one of your really slow nights at a club, but what promoter wants that?) or dress-up/schoolgirl/thong/pornstar host/pimp-ho cheesiness. No one comes out anymore in any big, sophisticated city for that nonsense. At least no one with money.

One annoying thing I've noticed is text message spam on my cell phone from club promoters. It makes me homicidal.

What's your website, Bianca? I'll check it out, especially if there are hot pics of you on it.

That is all.

Myspace and its college bastard cousin, Facebook, both scare me.

Kids have too much time on their hands and apparently aren't scared of Internet pals anymore.

That is all.

wait wait...you all can suck a nice piece of my ass if you'd like, thats serieously how much i hate you all

Check this site out www.in2ism.com

They have something called In-2people with is just like Myspace. Apparently its independently owned by some guys out of Dallas TX

Honestly, why would Rupert Murdoch or anyone else at Fox care about reading about how your day went last week? They don't want to hear about what school you go to, nor do they want to hear about who you would like to meet.

Okay, let's suppose that Fox is, for some strange reason, interested in your habits. So? What does that matter at all? Fox isn't going to come get you in the night for thinking bad thoughts. We aren't living in the book 1984, sorry. Some people might say something like, "They will get info about what I say and make targeted ads about it!"
Again... so what? Wouldn't you rather have an ad for something you are mildly interested in than an ad for Viagra?

Chill out.

Yeh Scotty, I checked out that www.in2ism.com site and I like it already. The in2people section is not as advanced as myspace, but I don't even use mostof the features on myspace anyway! What I like about the in2ism is that their like the grown-up version of Myspace, the in2ism.com site has alot of real cool artices for both men & women.
I think their gonna get big if they continue like this.

That in2ism site seems to be stuck in Dallas for now though...but it seems like it has the formula to spread

im trying to find abeter website than myspace or xanga or friendster. have any suggestions

yea wow, reading through these things makes me laugh at how a bunch of idiots go on and on about myspace for months.

you know what, everyones entitled to their own opinion. either you like myspace or you dont, simple as that. just because you dont like it doesnt mean you need to start stuff with the people who do like it. basically what youre doing there is recreating the SAME EXACT DRAMA THAT HAPPENS ON MYSPACE!!

yea i have a myspace, i dont entirely love it, i dont entirely hate it. but thats my opinion and youre just going to have to deal with it.

ehh gad! 580mil!
lucky motha!

It's amazing how lucky the motha is after spending incredible amounts of time and money getting the project going and managing to run it as a viable company for a while. :-)

This whole thing is overblown from both teams aspects. The people who make the criticism about MySpace first have no reason to care about MySpace, and are, therefore, making asses of themselves for being such blowhards on this subject at all...it's as if you hate pizza and you spend all your time searching sites who love pizza and bashing it.

The people who hate Tom for selling out are idealists who really wish there was no such thing as a person who wants money for his idea. Good for Tom. I would be glad if Tom took the money and ran, but he didn't; he still updates everything on the site the way he always did.

The people who hate Fox or whatever purchase they made have no grasp on the American way (as if you can't see the American way by stepping outside and checking out the new Wal*Mart or Starfucks or whatever else is destroying your memories of your surroundings). That's all this is about: memories. People want their memories to be their present and because MySpace cannot exist as a site alone (because money controls the bandwidth, the servers, etc), they have a fit about this news.

I love MySpace. I will continue going there because it's not costing me anything, it just happens to be a place where I can get quicker updates on the life outside the damn computer box with my friends and family, and it is a good idea. I've never tried Friendster, but for whoever made the weak observation that MySpace is like Friendster, it looks like Friendster stole the name right off a sound-alike MP# search engine that remains a demigod in the industry, so who steals from who?

myspace has always been fucked up, even before snoop ruppy-rup bought it. no worries though. it's not like viacom bought it, or some other company that tries to mask their ideology. we KNOW rupert is conservative. sumner redstone is a different character altogether. i'd rather have to deal with an up front doosh bag rather than a snake in the grass anyday.

i dont own a my space b/c its a waste of time. ppl should open up thier minds and stop looking at childish things. Forget about MY STUPID F_ING SPACE!!! GET A JOB!!!...oh i bought the site thanks agian
F.0.X

Myspace isn't all that great in terms of functioning, customer service, being a decent company, design, or development.

Myspace is great at sitting there now that everybody has found it. Myspace was/is great at getting new users.

There are a ton of flaws with Myspace, including (but not even close to limited to) Log in/out problems, features such as changing your email address not working, often clicking a link will give you an error but the second time you click it everything works, there are a ton of poorly laid out pages, searching doesn't work most of the time, and others that are similar.

Honestly, noting the website in an earlier post, I visited buzznex.com and it is MUCH more appealing just looking at the first page. I will be joining buzznex in hopes that it gets more popular.

Personally, I would rather someone did something about the layout and backend of Myspace, but it won't happen.

can i have a sandwich?

hmm.. i dont see what the big deal is with the change of ownership... if u really like myspace why does it matter if FOX owns it or some dude named TOM? well whatever stay with ure strange government conspiracys and parinoia, ill just enjoy what my government gives me, and be happy with it. lol plus why does it matter if u dont like myspace, if its gonna suck so bad then just do somthing else (maybe even go outside and meet your friends face to face)

This is a personal attack

All i can say is if Fox Media makes it a paid site or has a premium service, they will lose millions of people and millions of dollars.
MySpace is what it is b/c of what it is... its free, its easy to use, and did i say its free.
No one wants to pay to use a website like it.. so IMO that would be the worest move ever!
Other than that, if it says the way it is.. no harm, no foul!

nobody is gonna pay 4 myspace
ppl use it becuz its free and easy 2 use and keep in touch with freinds
ur def. not gonna suceed
dont even try
tom is a fucking idiot

Myspace is an abomination. 'nuff said.

Myspace owns you fucking morons.There Isnt anything wrong with it,its how you use it and I would pay to keep mine up depending on price.

A year on and still no charge
but that rumor is still around
Is Tom really broke??
And I heard that the music industry may be taking legal action

I don't like MySpace anymore. As a DJ I go to WaTunes.com because it's like a music myspace but much better twist. They're MUCH more safer and secure and block out the spammers, pervs, and nuders. I recommend everyone to ditch MySpace and go to WaTunes.com.

News Corp makes money off myspace by selling space to advertisers. Much how radio and broadcast television work. So no, there is no reason to ever charge for access to myspace. Just like yahoo and google are free.

As for WaTunes, good look for it. Myspace isn't going anywhere, and I won't chase new sites just for the hell of it.