I wanted to make a place for filmmakers and artists to come and ‘do their stuff,' but I didn't expect it to have had the impact that it has.
— Tom Anderson
I've literally never seen a crowd react to a band the way they react to the Polysics. Signing them to MySpace Records was an obvious choice. I wanted to be the person to bring this seasoned band to a new culture and audience. I'm really proud of them.
We felt like we reached a point where MySpace in its original incarnation had peaked in a way.
MySpace News is designed to let users decide what's most relevant to them, and we've given them hundreds of subjects to choose from.
It's our hope that MySpace Comedy, much like Music and Film before it, will serve as a launch pad for up-and-coming comedians and as an attraction for the biggest names in the industry.
I mean, my mom knows Google, but she doesn't know MySpace.
Bands are going to MySpace because it's free and they don't have to know how to do a Web site.
Expensive gear helps for night shots, but I wouldn't recommend beginners overspend on a camera.
I've always kept a low profile and said no to 'Saturday Night Live' and stuff like that.
Facebook really has made the world a better place.
When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be in a band - that was the path to girls, adulation, money.
The connection between someone in Leeds and a comedian in Los Angeles would probably never happen if it weren't for MySpace, so it enables friendship and connection far more than it limits it.
Music is a major cornerstone of our success.
It's our hope MySpace Comedy will serve as a launch pad for up-and-coming comedians and as an attraction for the biggest names in the industry.
We can't allow somebody to create a service like that, which reveals who's looking at your page. That's a violation of privacy.
People aren't interested in music on Facebook in the way they are on MySpace, that's one of the big keys here.
Popular opinion is the biggest 'filter' for most people - they don't have to try something if they've already been told it's not cool.
It can be a little scary. Like one time I posted a link to NPR because I thought it was interesting, and it took down their Web site.
We want MySpace users to connect with celebrities in the same way that they do with musicians.
When you go to a band's MySpace page you will have the full discography of everything they've ever recorded that you can listen to online.
It's not as much fun to go to karaoke alone, but when you do it through the Internet or on your MySpace page, then you can share it with people.
I'd heard comedians working MySpace into their routines and giving out their URLs as early as 2004.
For years troops stationed all over the world have utilised MySpace as a lifeline to communicate with their loved ones back home.
The Impact Channel and OurPlanet were created to increase awareness of environmental and social causes within the MySpace community.
I can't stress enough how unimportant the camera really is. Any brand of camera will do. For 95% of my shots, the lowest end DSLR will be just fine.
I didn't expect major labels would embrace MySpace, and the original idea for music on the site was the unsigned bands, the independent bands.
But for those who really want to make the world a better place, can we start looking at Bill Gates's path instead of Steve Jobs? I like my iPad, but Gates is one of the greatest heroes of our time. For me, that has nothing to do with Microsoft and everything to do with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
MySpace is the site I wanted to be on.
For most of our users, the vast majority of their MySpace friends are also offline friends. They're just connecting through a different medium when they're on MySpace.
Parents aren't clamoring for cell-phone companies to monitor their kids. Parents don't want to see what their kids are really like, but MySpace makes that really easy.
Almost all the things you can do online can be enhanced by the social structure of MySpace.
The idea was that if it was a cool thing to do online, you should be able to do it on MySpace.
Making a website is similar to making a movie-hundreds of people work on it, one person makes the final decision, and they make them every minute of the day.
During MySpace's run-up, journalists continually got their facts wrong about MySpace. They wrote story after story about how Facebook was bigger than MySpace when in truth Facebook wasn't even 1/10th the size of MySpace.
It sounds crazy, but even in the first plan that I wrote up, I mentioned AOL, Yahoo and hotmail, knowing we would be big. And its crazy to think that it happened.
Celebrities have been using MySpace since the site's launch and it's a natural extension for us to now offer them an aggregated channel where they can be in control of their own image.
We've tried to simplify the site because some people found it too difficult to use and were intimidated by it.
From the very beginning, our driving passion has been simple: to create and foster a platform where people across the globe can not only meet and interact, but share music, videos, thoughts and ideas.
It's kind of like, who cares about MTV anymore?
We want people to stay on MySpace. We'll give them whatever they might want to do.
I live in Hawaii part time and love shooting the ocean, both long exposures that capture the movement of water and with a fast shutter speed to freeze the power and force of a wave.
Burning Man is like one big giant art installation in the middle of starkly beautiful desert landscape, and the attendees are creative in the way they dress.
I won't even say who I'm going to vote for. I don't want to make people feel like me, or MySpace, is endorsing anyone.
The first people in a company are the most important. They will hire people like themselves and create a culture that either works or eats away at the chance for success.
Photography has literally changed my life.
MySpace gives our members the ability to reach such an incredible range of people and have direct contact with them. I'm not sure how that devalues friendship so much as it expands the range of potential friends you can have.
If you start out saying you want to be cool, you won't be cool.
Anything you do on the Internet, I want you to be able to do on MySpace. That's the goal and ambition.
I saw how hard it was for even really talented bands to reach an audience.
Safety' hysteria destroyed MySpace in the press. It got MySpace banned from schools, Apple stores, and by well-meaning parents who had been terrorized by what they were reading.
