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Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace; also myspace; and sometimes my␣, with an elongated open box symbol) is a social networking service based in the United States. Launched on August 1, 2003, it was the first social network to reach a global audience and had a significant influence on technology, pop culture and music. [ 2 ]
Then, in June 2007, they launched Myspace TV to compete with YouTube. But despite their rapid growth and success, there was a dark side to Myspace that couldn’t be ignored.
Brad Greenspan after five years of college earned a University of California Los Angeles Political Science undergraduate degree. During his junior year he earned a finders fee for matching electric automobile battery company Electrosource, Inc. with Liviakis Financial an investor relations firm helping the tiny publicly traded Austin, Texas based startup raise needed additional financing.
The social networking service Myspace was among the most popular web sites in the 2000s decade. It has faced criticism on a variety of fronts, including for a massive redesign of the site in 2012 which occurred after the majority of original users had abandoned the website, misuse of the platform for cyber-bullying and harassment, risks for users' privacy, and major data losses.
In 2005, Kamkar released the Samy worm, the first publicly released self-propagating cross-site scripting worm, onto MySpace. [10] The worm carried a payload that would display the string "but most of all, Samy is my hero" on a victim's profile and cause the victim to unknowingly send a friend request to Kamkar.
LiveVideo was a social network launched in 2006 backed by MySpace founder Brad Greenspan. [1] [2] It offered one of the first user generated video hosting platforms integrated with social media features, described as a mashup of MySpace and YouTube, and later an interactive live video streaming platform.
Intermix Media, Inc. (AMX symbol: MIX; formerly eUniverse) is an American Internet marketing company [1] that owned the MySpace social network. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California [ 1 ] and is a subsidiary of Fox Interactive Media, Inc. [ 1 ]
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search.