Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America (Kindle Edition)
May 9, 2009 by Rob
Amazon.com ReviewBook DescriptionA few years ago, MySpace.com was just an idea kicking around a Southern California spam mill. Scroll down to the present day and MySpace is one of the most visited Internet destinations in America, displaying more than 40 billion webpage views per month and generating nearly $1 billion annually for Rupert Murdoch’s online empire. Even by the standards of the Internet age, the MySpace saga is an astounding growth story, which climaxed with the site’ (more...)Featured: Fake Security Camers
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Read this book!
I really enjoyed reading this book! It is a very well written history about one of the most important online corporations.
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Internet Start-Up Meets Big Business
Stealing MySpace was a very entertaining story about what happened behinds the scenes at MySpace as it went from its infancy as a Friendster copy cat in the ethical gray zone on…
4.0 out of 5 stars
Finally, I get it!
A smart read that digs deep into what makes MySpace unique and why it even matters. Found the “who-dun-it” narrative to be both entertaining (lots of fun, head-shaking anecdotes)…
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Rambling, Boring, and with Questionable Data
2000-2001 brought the dot.com crash – one would think we had learned. Apparently not.
MySpace was launched in 2003 after a few months effort, in an attempt to…
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Good read.
I took up this book with some misgiving. Like most people I knew what MySpace was, but I wasn’t exactly sure how it made money, why so many people seemed interested in it, why…