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
Edited and thumbnail by Noah
JOIN US ON PATREON FOR EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, BONUS CONTENT, AND MORE:
www.patreon.com/desperateactsofcapitalism
BIG THINGS ARE COMING
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
