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Santa Monica-based Tsavo , the online media company which owns Manolith, Twirlit, Kidglue, and Nibbledish, has lost its Vice President of Product and Design, Mike Macadaan. According to Macadaan, this week is his last at Tsavo. Macadaan's departure closely follows the departure of Tsavo founder and CEO Michael Jones, who recently became COO of MySpace. Macadaan is well known in the Los Angeles technology community for creating and running Twiistup, the popular Los Angeles technology networking and startup showcase event. Tsavo develops content-focused web sites which apply technology

News Corporation said a few minutes ago that it has added two new executives at MySpace , and is tapping Tsavo Media's Michael Jones as Chief Operating Officer and Sling Media's Jason Hirschhorn as Chief Product Officer. He was most recently CEO of Tsavo Media, which is developing online publishing and advertising technology along with related online content. Both are in Los Angeles. Jones is best known in Southern California's technology community for his success at Userplane, which he founded and sold to AOL.

Michael Jones and Jason Hirschhorn have just been appointed COO and Chief Product Officer, respectively, over at MySpace. Most of the folks in Los Angeles will know Michael well, from his days bootstrapping Userplane (sold to AOL), as well as his recent efforts with both Tsavo , as well as his efforts (along with Peter Pham and others) to get the technology elite networking here. btw, I checked in with Mike Jones about what’s going to happen over at Jason was most recently at Sling Media , and prior to that was Chief Digital Officer at MTV Networks . He also said they

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I’m re-posting this interview with Michael Jones because he was recently tapped to be the Chief Operating Officer of MySpace and thought you’d want to see how the man News Corp. Michael bootstrapped userplane and sold it to AOL, then went on to found Tsavo . Most recently, he was named COO of MySpace. ( Can’t see video? Try this. )