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The Story of MySpace
Facebook and Niche-works
Getting Profiled
Social Gold-mines & Minefields

The Story of MySpace

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2005 Grows to about 27 million users
2005 Acquired by News Corp for $580m
2006 Signs deal with Google for $900m
2006 100,000,000th MySpace Account
2006 - ‘08 Launches internationally

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• http://mashable.com/2006/07/18/wal-mart-
clones-myspace-badly/
• http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/
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