Myspace.com, owned by Fox Interactive Media (under News Corporation), is a Beverly Hills, California-based interactive online social network and media that offers users free email, music and video streaming, forum, communities, and blog creation with approximately 800 employees. It was launched in January 2004 by a group of programmers from eUniverse.
Myspace can be a start-up platform for less Popular artists such as Lily Allen, Noisette, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Eli Paperboy Reed, Little Jackie, Ill nino, Ulrich Schnauss, Basement Jaxx, Goldfinger, Family Force 5, Laura Gibson and The Virgins.
Many artists uploaded their songs at myspace music and placed the widget on their profiles to provide their audience and fans with free streaming of their song at myspace such as Gun n' Roses.
Myspace videos is a video hosting section where users could upload any videos to the website including movie trailers, music videos, full-length anime and funny clips.
Myspace Mobile was created for users who can access the internet through their mobile gadgets such as the apple iPhone. Other mobiles like Blackberry Smartphones uses a special downloadable app they call Myspace for Blackberry.
Myspace Australia is a special international myspace version for the Asia-Pacific region.
Myspace Developer Platform offers freelance and professional creators of myspace applications, a chance to promote their products and services.
Myspace Jobs was created to provide job applicants the easy way to find job hirings from big companies including AT&T, The Home Depot, McDonalds and Starbucks Coffee.
Myspace Forums offers interaction between myspace users and allows everyone to speak out their views on certain topics on different categories.
The popularity of myspace have driven website developers and designers to create their own website to support the myspace community and provide pre-made Myspace Layouts such as zwani, jellymuffin, myspace-layouts, Myspacetoolbox, Pimpmyspace, Myspace-Graphics, Myspace Master, Free Code Source, Background-Layout, Revolution Myspace, Top Bun, Profile Pimp and Biggo.ws.
Myspace was targeted by a worm they call "Samy Worm" or "JS.Spacehero Worm" which was discovered and became unsuccessful.
Pete Cashmore explained how myspace helped the exponential growth of youtube.
MySpace.com domain was originally planned as a web hosting site and was owned by YourZ.com, a leading online storage until 2002.
In June 2006, Myspace was considered as the number 1 social networking website in the United States.
In August 2006, 100 millionth account from Netherlands was created according to wikipedia.
In September 2006, Myspace announced that it had reached approximately 106 million accounts.
In October 2007, Myspace released its own platform which contains APIs and new mark up language that allows developers create applications that will run on myspace. [Techcrunch]
In April 2008, Facebook has overtaken Myspace in terms monthly unique visitors. [comscore]
During the 2008 US Presidential Elections, Myspace have played a very big role in the success of President-elect Barack Obama. Obama had more myspace followers than his competitor Sen. Mccain which was a very big lead in terms of network and presence online. [techpresident]
In April 2009, Myspace announced that its new CEO Owen Van Natta and Jonathan Miller as CEO of Digital Media for News Corp.
