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Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace; also myspace; and sometimes my␣, with an elongated open box symbol) is a social networking service based in the United States. Launched on August 1, 2003, it was the first social network to reach a global audience and had a significant influence on technology, pop culture and music. [ 2 ]
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Samy (also known as JS.Spacehero) is a cross-site scripting worm that was designed to propagate across the social networking site MySpace by Samy Kamkar.Within just 20 hours [1] of its October 4, 2005 release, over one million users had run the payload [2] making Samy the fastest-spreading virus of all time.
Brad Greenspan is an internet entrepreneur best known for overseeing eUniverse’s launch of Myspace.com in August 2003.. Greenspan founded eUniverse, Inc. an internet company which in 1999 acquired CDUniverse.com with approximately 300,000 monthly users.
In 2005, Kamkar released the Samy worm, the first publicly released self-propagating cross-site scripting worm, onto MySpace. [10] The worm carried a payload that would display the string "but most of all, Samy is my hero" on a victim's profile and cause the victim to unknowingly send a friend request to Kamkar.
Intermix Media was then founded as the successor of eUniverse, and it was under Intermix that Myspace garnered the level of popularity for which it is notable. When Intermix Media and Myspace were sold to News Corp, Anderson became president of the company. [2] Myspace was sold to News Corp in 2005 for $580 million. [11]
The company was founded in February 1999 as Entertainment Universe, Inc by Brad Greenspan. [1]In June of 2003, after consulting with executive management for many months, Jeffrey Edell was brought on board as Chairman of eUniverse, which, in 2004, changed its name to Intermix Media, Inc. [1]
It was announced that Myspace lost 12 years worth of content in a server migration gone wrong. So that meant any songs, photos and videos uploaded to the site between 2003-2015 were straight up ...