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MySpace

Disciplines:
technology/internet
music
social media
social network

Summary

Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe's Los Angeles social networking site — the dominant social network from 2005 to 2008 — famous for its music features, HTML customization, and its dramatic loss to Facebook.

Core Contribution

Defines early social networking — MySpace's profile customization and music focus created the first mass social network experience; its failure to adapt to Facebook's cleaner interface and News Feed made it the canonical example of social media platform disruption.

Historical Influences

Tom Anderson

Intellectual Lineage

Tom Anderson Chris DeWolfe2003 News Corp

Contemporaries & Peers

Friendster Facebook Bebo

Minds Influenced

Social media history Lenny's Podcast

Intellectual Posterity

MySpace Tom

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