I wouldn’t bet against MySpace . I know many of their founders and early employees, and one of the co-founders of Intermix (the parent company of MySpace) is an investor.  MySpace has lost the battle as the “place for friends”.  The following are my 7 Ways on How to Save MySpace They attract over 70 million people a month (just in the US), and by most accounts are still one of the 10 most popular sites in the world. They also have a new management team, that’s headed up in part by Michael Jones (COO), the most all around talented internet executive I know.

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12.     Mark Jeffrey - CTO, Mahalo Why 21.     Julia Angwin - Author, Stealing MySpace Why Why listen: Julia shows you how thinking like marketers helped the founders of MySpace build one of the most successful web businesses in history. ...Tags: 1.     Rosalind Resnick - Founder of NetCreations Why Why listen: Rosalind bootstrapped a company that she eventually took public.

Jason Calacanis , the CEO and founder of Santa Monica search site Mahalo , is rumored to be in the running to replace Chris Dewolfe. Calacanis is not commenting on the rumors, but just posted a long email on what MySpace’s new CEO ought to do. Number one is “buy a search engine.” 8221; ...Tags:

Are you at Mahalo’s offices? Interviewee: Yes, we’re in Mahalo’s offices today. I know that Mahalo lends – not lends – they rent office space to entrepreneurs like you. They're on, at the time, MySpace or YouTube and now Facebook. You’re When my friend Wil Schroter builds web sites, he's more concerned with attracting revenue than eyeballs. When we get together in person, I like talking to him about how he builds revenue-generating sites like goBIGnetwork.com , because he's so methodical about it.

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Founder and CEO of Mahalo , Jason Calacanis is the original community CEO, or as we like to say OGSocial. MySpace Co-Founder Tom Anderson is probably the most well known social founder behind a site. His status at MySpace is so legendary it has just about made him a household name. It’s interesting (to me at least) the vast audiences that tech founders are able to assemble. Through their own products and others, they manage to build massive communities that in many cases, hang on their every word tweet.

Mark helped launch 4 startups, including SuperSig, which was a disaster and Mahalo , a rising star. His next startup was ZeroDegrees, an early MySpace. Today he’s working on his latest startup as the CTO of Mahalo. I asked Mark Jeffrey for an interview because I knew he’d be open with me about the periods in entrepreneurship when things fall apart and you feel like there’s no way out. Network by evangelizing

Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo, will broadcast "This Week in Start-Ups" live from the event and his guests will be community experts Peter Hirshberg, chairman of The Conversation Group and Michael Jones, COO of MySpace. Wednesday, September 23, 2009 -- Managing Online Communities. Digital Family Summit.

Mahalo is sold for 50-70 million, a respectable exit although much lower than Jason’s original goal of a 30 gazillion dollar sale. Fox Interactive and Myspace move into their new office in Playa Vista, taking them further to the outskirts of LA and relevancy in the space.  Time to gaze into our crystal iPhone and see what 2009 holds in store for Los Angeles. Francisco Dao will be kicked out of at least 1 event for being too loud and or dressing inappropriately.