Desperate Acts of Capitalism

60: MYSPACE (Patreon)

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2024-11-01 19:00:12

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The social internet could have been Myspace. Modular, user-centered, infinitely customizable. Like so many sites on the early internet, it was more accident than design, ballooning to enormous size and popularity much faster than its scam artist founders could keep up with. Join us as we find out how Myspace failed its way into success, and finally into catastrophe.

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Sources:

Intelligencer

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2009/11/myspace_is.html

Financial Times - The rise and fall of MySpace

https://www.ft.com/content/fd9ffd9c-dee5-11de-adff-00144feab49a

MySpace: We'll Crush YouTube

https://mashable.com/archive/myspace-well-crush-youtube

The Atlantic - Why We’re Nostalgic for MySpace

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/08/top-eight-how-myspace-changed-music-book-review/675096/

Stealing Myspace by Julia Angwin

https://www.amazon.com/Stealing-MySpace-Control-Popular-Website/dp/1400066948