[TechPromise]

Not sure if many of you guys have seen or used myspace.com, but I thought it was interesting how much tom sold it for. Talk about entrepreneurs!
Heres the link to the article

Heres a link to my myspace page if you have never heard of myspace

[Antdizzle]

This is very old news. I hope one day I can see a website that I make for that much.

[ericesquire]

Yeah man that's some old news, heh...and it wasn't 'myspace' that sold for $580 million, it was the holding company who had interests in MANY other websites, all of which were pretty damn successful. No doubt myspace was the big draw, but it certainly wasn't all $580mil of the deal.

[JermaineGriggs]

Originally Posted by ericesquire

Yeah man that's some old news, heh...and it wasn't 'myspace' that sold for $580 million, it was the holding company who had interests in MANY other websites, all of which were pretty damn successful. No doubt myspace was the big draw, but it certainly wasn't all $580mil of the deal.

Second that!

...but just curious: Does anyone know how much Tom got? $$$

[tinobuntic]

Does anybody know what other websites are in the portfolio of this holding company?

Oh, and Fox has earmarked another $2 billion for website acquisitions...

[JimiHendrix]

Fox (Owned by NewsCorp) acquired ign.com the last week or two. One of my favorite sites, hope it doesn't get changed too much.

[PeterNicholls]

i think tom was just a marketing ploy,
he simply worked in the marketing department of the company who ran myspace.
i thought it was a pretty smart lil marketing gimic because everyone likes a hero
eg bill gates for computers