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DECEMBER 18, 2012

Los Angeles-based social and mobile game development firm, SGN , said today that it has launched a new tool called MasterKey, which it says can be used to develop cross-platform titles. SGN is headed by Chris DeWolfe, one of the founders of MySpace, and is venture backed by Austin Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 7, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace Music announced this morning that it has hired Dmitry Shapiro , who founded Veoh, as its new Chief Technology Officer. Shapiro will be based in Beverly Hills, and report to MySpace Music President Courtney Holt. Tags: veoh dmitry shapiro myspace executive. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 7, 2010

Beverly Hills-based Platform G , the stealth mode startup headed by former MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe, has closed a $22.0M, Series A funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. Platform G acquired San Francisco gaming firm MindJolt in March. Platform G acquired San Francisco gaming firm MindJolt in March.

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace , in a bid to connect with the "real-time" web, said early this morning at the LeWeb conference that it has launched a new, real-time API. Tags: myspace realtime search. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 23, 2008

Los Angeles-based MySpace said today that independent music distributor IODA will provide its catalog to MySpace music. According to MySpace, the partnership with IODA--the Independent Online Distribution Alliance--will add over one million new songs to its platform.

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MAY 17, 2017

Ted Dhanik is co-founder and CEO of West Hollywood-based engage: BDR (www.engagebdr.com), which recently just launched an influencer marketing platform aimed at Instagram.users. Ted was an executive at Myspace, as VP of Strategic Marketing, and was at LowerMyBills before that. From that standpoint, I learned a lot from Myspace.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

mobileStorm, which provides mobile and email marketing services, said that Pedowitz will be responsible for developmentof the firm's next generation platforms. Pedowitz joins the firm from Fox Interactive Media, where he headed up re-architecture and re-engineering of the MySpace MyAds platform. READ MORE>>

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MAY 2, 2017

Los Angeles-based advertising technology developer engage:BDR , which is led by MySpace alum Ted Dhanik, has launched a new product aimed at influencer advertising on Instagram. engage:BDR says it already has been working with such brands as American Apparel, Nasty Gal and ProActiv in creative video and display advertising campaigns.

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

Santa Monica startup, Gravity --headed by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur--announced this morning that it has raised $10.6M Gravity said the new funds will help it expand its operations in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco, as well as scale its publishing partners and deploy its platform. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

MySpace) as well as Michael Eisner (former CEO of Disney). GoMeta develops a mobile platform--currently running on iOS--that allows developers create their own augmented reality apps and worlds. Shapiro was most recently at Google, but also had served at Anybeat, MySpace Music, and founded video site Veoh. READ MORE>>.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

I wouldn’t bet against MySpace. I know many of their founders and early employees, and one of the co-founders of Intermix (the parent company of MySpace) is an investor. MySpace has lost the battle as the “place for friends”. The following are my 7 Ways on How to Save MySpace. MySpace = Yahoo2.0: MySpace = Yahoo2.0:

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Most recently Mike Jones served as the CEO of Myspace. In this role, Mike oversaw global business strategy and operations for Myspace, Myspace Music, and Myspace Mobile, which included board and strategic roles with Myspace China and Myspace Japan. To inspire and facilitate personal and cultural growth.

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DECEMBER 26, 2017

Our team has an eye for identifying legacy industries and nascent trends, and creating platforms for innovation. Coinbase, the online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that particularly caught your eye in 2017. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 21, 2013

Los Angeles-based GumGum has snagged a media agency network executive as an advisor, the firm is announcing today, for its in-image advertising platform. GumGum''s advisory board also include David Sacks, the CEO of Yammer; Michael Jones, the former CEO of MySpace, and Vince Thompson, the Managing partner at Middleshift.

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JUNE 16, 2010

The firm said it is developing a user-created, social gaming and chat platform for Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and OpenSocial. Tags: worlize venture capital startup social gaming chat angel investment facebook twitter myspace opensocial. Financial terms of the funding were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2023

It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii. Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around. Just ask MySpace, eToys, and Pets.com. Extrapolating you as the target customer.

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APRIL 19, 2011

Los Angeles- and San Francisco-based online gaming service MindJolt , which is run by MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe, has acquired two companies, according to a report today. MindJolt--formerly known as Platform G--is venture backed by Austin Ventures. Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

SGN, which develops cross platform social and mobile games, said it has hired Brian Kahrs as its Vice President of Product. The company is headed by Chris DeWolfe, former founder of MySpace. Los Angeles-based SGN said today that it has snagged a Zynga executive to head up product development for the company. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 3, 2022

Friendster was a fad, Second Life was a fad, MySpace was a fad, and Facebook suddenly seems old school. Don’t connect the latest platform, which may be transient, with the larger phenomenon of digitally enabled social conversations. You can do so using conversation platforms like forums, Facebook groups or build something yourself.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Why did MySpace lose to Facebook & what can Twitter learn from this? encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. MySpace grew faster because Friendster’s servers couldn’t scale. MySpace didn’t handle images or video well. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Science said that it will use the new growth funding to enhance its technology platform. Science is led by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones; the company''s latest companies include Re|Fame, Hiq, Playhaven, InLight, FameBit, Medium, and Delicious. According to Fortune, the funding came from private equity investor Silver Lake Waterman.

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JUNE 23, 2010

Brian McKelvey: We're building a virtual world, which attaches to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and all the social networks. It's built on a gaming platform, and is a way for users to create their own content and portions of that world. How did the firm come about? Finally, what's the big goal for your firm in the next few months?

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Our investment in PlayVS and the subsequent launch of their Season Zero high school e-sports platform was very exciting. Often from this learning are they were able to improve, make better choices and continue to take bold actions to scale their company. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 3, 2012

We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform. Michael Witz: We've been building smaller, lightweight games on the Facebook platform since early 2008.

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JULY 2, 2010

Looking to reduce its dependence on Twitter's fickle advertising policy, Los Angeles-based Ad.ly , the Twitter advertising startup backed by Greycroft Partners and GRP Partners, said earlier this week that it has extended its platform to applications and websites. said it has launched a new platform called Ad.ly

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MARCH 22, 2010

calls itself a "social fundraising platform", and allows users to use Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and other means to promote different projects, handling the collection of funds for those different projects. The company is headed by Alon Goren.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

(www.science-inc.com), headed by Mike Jones , the former CEO of Myspace. Mike Jones: Coming out of Myspace, I looked at both operational roles and joining a venture fund. You just left MySpace--when did you decide to start Science? We sat down with Mike to better understand Science and what it's trying to do. What is Science?

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Jones is also the former CEO of MySpace. I think as TV becomes more and more obsolete (millennials aren't watching traditional TV), more companies will arise and learn how to harness the power of the Facebook Live platform as a way to deliver digestible and interesting streaming video. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 26, 2012

the startup business effort run by Mike Jones, the former CEO of MySpace, has made its first acquisition, saying this morning that it has acquired Pinpuff , the developer of a platform which measures the influence of Pinterest users, and awards them with perks. Science, Inc. , Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

Think of these as the future version of the old “computer clubs,” or today’s multi-player game platforms. Believe it or not, Facebook started at Harvard and promoted its exclusivity to this school, then slowly spread to others, when rival social media platform MySpace was inviting everyone to join.

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APRIL 12, 2020

It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii. Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around. Just ask MySpace, eToys, and Pets.com. Extrapolating you as the target customer.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

Aber Whitcomb is a partner at startup co-working and incubation community io/LA , CTO of SGN , and former co-founder and CTO of MySpace. We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms. Don't bet on any one platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2010

Despite the criticisms they’ve received, Twitter’s desire to maintain the quality and integrity of the Twitter stream is worthy and will benefit both the platform and all of us as individuals who have poured our time and energy into communication through Twitter. For any platform to succeed it needs to achieve revenue momentum.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Worlize is a user-created social gaming and chat platform for Facebook and social networks including Twitter, MySpace and OpenSocial. The 2D platform brings together a new world of interactivity for users, including the ability to play and create their own worlds and games.

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Los Angeles-based Shopit, which develops a platform to allow users to buy and sell products on social networks, announced support for Ning this morning. Shopit's software also works with MySpace, Facebook, AIM, Bebo, Friendster, Blogger, and Hi5. READ MORE>>

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DECEMBER 30, 2011

Former CEO of Myspace. Most recently Mike Jones served as the CEO of Myspace. In this role, Mike oversaw global business strategy and operations for Myspace, Myspace Music, and Myspace Mobile, which included board and strategic roles with joint venture partners in Myspace China and Myspace Japan / Softbank.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

So my guess is that Tweetup needs to go “multi-stream&# (as in Facebook, MySpace, etc.). I talked about the platform moves of Twitter and why it should be expected. Message of the week (from Fred Wilson) – “don’t fill cracks&# but innovate in new ways with the platform. It’s core platform stuff.

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