the battle to control the most popular website in America /
Julia Angwin
1st ed
New York :
Random House,
c2009
viii, 371 p., [8] p. of plates :
ill. ;
25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-356) and index
Stealing MySpace -- Circle of friends -- Rising from the ashes -- The trailer park of the internet -- Struggling to survive -- The Fakester revolution -- Building MySpace -- The boardroom coup -- The fix-it-later philosophy -- Operation show time -- Are we missing the next Google? -- Tsunami -- Independence -- The king of spyware -- Schmuck insurance -- The game is on -- Project ivory -- Holding a tiger by the tail -- A fine line between risqué and dirty -- "A place for friends" -- Pebble Beach -- War against Web 2.0 -- Number one in every market -- Beyond the banner ad -- The FaceBook revolution -- MySpace 2.0 -- Digital identity
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Angwin chronicles the rise of MySpace and sheds light on the dizzying backroom deals that allowed Rupert Murdoch to snatch this Internet powerhouse from Viacom's grasp