MYSPACE FOUNDERS--- TOM ANDERSON AND CHRIS DEWOLFE

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MYSPACE FOUNDERS--- TOM ANDERSON AND CHRIS DEWOLFE


Tom and Chris


Tom Anderson, co-founder of MySpace, in his trademark photo.

Tom Anderson (born October 13, 1975) is the President of the social networking website MySpace. He founded the site along with CEO Chris DeWolfe. Since newly created MySpace accounts include Tom as a default "friend," he has become known as the face of MySpace. As of April 2007, Tom has over 175 million "friends."
Anderson attended University of California, Berkeley from 1994 to 1998, and graduated in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric and English. From 1999 to 2000, he attended University of California, Los Angeles and graduated with a master's degree in film - critical studies. In 2003, he and a few computer programmers set up the first pages of MySpace, and the site grew from there. It is currently the most popular social networking website on the Internet, consistently performing among the top sites in United States web traffic rankings.


CHRIS


TOM AND CHRIS --- Dubbed as “ MYSPACE COWBOYS “

Chris DeWolfe is one of the creators of MySpace (along with Tom Anderson). He is the current CEO of MySpace. He graduated from the University of Southern California. His MySpace account (though private) can be found at [1] he has the 6th account ever made on the website. His new visions and ideas for MySpace have made it a lot more popular. When MySpace was acquired by News Corporation for $580 million he received about $2.9 million after taxes.

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The headquarters of Fox Interactive Media in Beverly Hills, California. MySpace is housed on the second floor of this building.

MySpace is a popular social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos internationally. It is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, USA,[1] where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media; in turn, the owner of Fox Interactive (and therefore MySpace), News Corporation, is headquartered in New York City.
According to Alexa Internet, MySpace is currently the world's fifth most popular English-language website, the fifth most popular website in any language,[2] and the third most popular website in the United States, though it has topped the chart on various weeks[3] (it is possible that other websites have a greater number of unique visitors).

the current MySpace service was founded in July 2003 by Tom Anderson (an alumnus of both the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles), the current president and CEO; Chris DeWolfe (a graduate of University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business); and a small team of programmers. It was partially owned by Intermix Media, which was bought in July 2005 for US$580 million by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation (the parent company of Fox Broadcasting and other media enterprises).[


                                   
This is an updated version (20 March 2007) of Tom Anderson's (the founder of MySpace) profile. He is added to everyone's friends when you join.
Myspace.com website page


The minimum age to register an account on MySpace is 14.[27] Profiles with ages set to 14 or 15 years are automatically private.
MySpace often has problems with profile identity theft. These are profiles containing the pictures and sometimes information of someone else's profile. These stolen profiles are commonly used to advertise websites.
Recently, MySpace has been the focus of a number of news reports stating that teenagers have found ways around the restrictions set by MySpace, and have been the target of online predators.[29] In response, MySpace has given assurances to parents that the website is safe for people of all ages.
In December 2006, MySpace announced new measures to protect children from known s*x offenders.
In February 2007, a U.S. District Judge in Texas dismissed a case when a family sued MySpace for negligence, fraud and misrepresentation; a girl in the family had been sexually assaulted by a man she met through MySpace, after she had misrepresented her age as 18 when she was 13.

Many schools and public libraries in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia have restricted access to MySpace because it has become "such a haven for student gossip and malicious comments".



TOM AND CHRIS


Tom Anderson und Chris DeWolfe founded MySpace three and a half years ago in Santa Monica, California. Twenty four months later they sold the company for $580 million to media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Both men stayed on with the company as managers. DeWolfe, 41, handles the business side and Anderson, 31, is in charge of the "community." MySpace currently has 140 million members around the world -- mostly between the ages of 15 and 24 -- and that figure grows by 230,000 everyday. Together, those members have created the world's largest online community -- a sort of dating service, poetry and music club in one. Each member has a page on the service that can be viewed by the world -- and the service has even launched its own celebrities, like London- based singer Lily Allen, who rose to prominance through MySpace.

Source:  http://www.myspace.com, http://www.cnn.com, http://www.google.com

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MySpace's Tom Anderson 'lied about his age'
October 30, 2007 03:38pm----http://www.news.com

THE hip, young co-founder of the social networking site MySpace has been reportedly caught out fibbing about his age.
Much has been made about Tom Anderson's young savvy outlook and the MySpace product that made he and business partner Chris DeWolfe a mint when News Corporation bought it in 2005 for $US580 million ($630 million).
Anderson has said he was 27 when he launched the youth-focussed site in 2003, and his current online profile lists his age as 32, Newsweek magazine said.

But Newsweek cites public documents, including his professional licence information, voter registration and utility and phone service applications, showing his birthday is actually November 8, 1970.
That means he'll turn 37 next week, not 33.

Anderson has enjoyed celebrity status since starting MySpace, because when users sign up, their profiles are automatically linked with his making him everybody's "friend".

"Young people don't want someone their dad's age running a site they think is cool," Pete Cashmore, the founder and editor of Mashable.com, a blog that covers social networking, told Newsweek.
Anderson's secret began to unravel last week, when the blog TechCrunch suggested that he was 36 or 37.

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MySpace Founders Request an Outrageous $50M for Renewed Contracts
http://mashable.com/----June 26, 2007 — 07:05 PM PDT — by Kristen Nicole

MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson have reportedly made a hefty request with their compensation proposal to Rupert Murdoch, owner of MySpace,s parent company News Corp.
Their contract is up in October, and they,ve asked Peter Chernin and Murdoch for a two-year deal at $50 million, which breaks down to $12.5 million a piece, per year. In addition, DeWolfe and Anderson are requesting a development fund with $15 million in order to invest in Internet companies.

The salary request is rather bold considering the positions of DeWolfe and Anderson, especially in relation to most CEOs of fortune 500 companies, and MySpace,s own position within the News Corp. umbrella. Granting their wishes would upset a lot of people, both inside and outside News Corp., regardless of MySpace,s dominance in the social networking sphere.

This sounds like the MySpace founders are trying to accumulate as much cash as they can during the peak of MySpace, to some extent. Between the acquisition of InterMix onto NewsCorp, perhaps DeWolfe and Anderson may be looking to gain more money considering the amount they received after selling MySpace in the first place. Where does this leave DeWolfe and Anderson?

Murdoch has reportedly countered their request with an offer $15 million each over two years, which is far less than their initial request, but far more than most executives within News Corp. Perhaps the MySpace founders should take Murdoch,s deal; who else will offer them that much?