{"id":306,"date":"2009-05-01T08:12:58","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T12:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2009-05-01T08:12:58","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T12:12:58","slug":"is-this-the-end-of-myspace-at-least-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/01\/is-this-the-end-of-myspace-at-least-as-we-know-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This The End of MySpace? (at least as we know it)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MySpace is one of the giants in the social networking world.\u00a0 But things haven&#8217;t been going too well for them lately.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve lost their buzz, their cool-factor and a lot of their user&#8217;s to competing sites like Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve also just lost the two guys who were running the thing&#8230;Chris DeWolf and everyone&#8217;s favorite friend, Tom (Tom Anderson).\u00a0 DeWolf was the MySpace CEO and Anderson the President.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve both been fired (or as they say in the corporate world, they are &#8220;stepping down&#8221; or &#8220;assuming new roles&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the entire senior executive team at MySpace is being restructured&#8230;with outsiders being brought in to fill key positions.\u00a0 Outsiders who previously worked at Facebook, AOL and SlingMedia.<\/p>\n<p>These changes have many people thinking that MySpace will no longer be a social networking platform&#8230;and instead&#8230;it will morph into something else.<\/p>\n<p>In the video below, G4TV&#8217;s Kevin Pereira and LA Weekly&#8217;s Alexia Tsotsis discuss this very possibility:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"418\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"id\" value=\"VideoPlayerLg37895\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/g4tv.com\/lv3\/37895\" \/><embed id=\"VideoPlayerLg37895\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"418\" src=\"http:\/\/g4tv.com\/lv3\/37895\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MySpace is one of the giants in the social networking world.\u00a0 But things haven&#8217;t been going too well for them lately.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve lost their buzz, their cool-factor and a lot of their user&#8217;s to competing sites like Facebook. They&#8217;ve also just lost the two guys who were running the thing&#8230;Chris DeWolf and everyone&#8217;s favorite friend, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[85,219,86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}