Comments on: MySpace Music CEO Hunt Continues: Facebook’s Owen Van Natta Top Contender

By: Is Facebook Jealous Of MySpace? : tinyComb

Is Facebook Jealous Of MySpace? : tinyComb — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:51:26 +0000

[...] tiny from: TechCrunch.com original post September 13, 2008 | jason | 1tinyComb, myspace [...]

By: Ex-Facebook COO Owen Van Natta to run MySpace Music? [Rumormonger] | Zensible

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:09:39 +0000

[...] Andy Schuon, a longtime Universal Music executive (right). TechCrunch says Van Natta is a “top contender.” Insiders say MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe is wooing him even more aggressively than Paris [...]

By: MySpace Offers MTV Exec The MySpace Music CEO Job

MySpace Offers MTV Exec The MySpace Music CEO Job — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:01:20 +0000

[...] old. Earlier this year we reported on some of the early candidates. Last month we reported that ex-Facebooker Owen Van Natta was interviewing for the position, but those discussions were somewhat complicated by a [...]

By: Project Playlist Gets Tangled In MySpace Music CEO Search

Project Playlist Gets Tangled In MySpace Music CEO Search — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:42:18 +0000

[...] Own Van Natta (Facebook’s former Chief Revenue Officer), is one of the investors in the company. He was until recently being recruited by MySpace to run the new MySpace Music property. [...]

By: Ex-Facebook COO Owen Van Natta to run MySpace Music? [Rumormonger] | Geekinstinct.com | Geek Stuffs, Technology Related

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:30:16 +0000

[...] TechCrunch says Van Natta is a “top contender.” Insiders say MySpace CEO Chris [...]

By: MySpace Music: So What? » the dotmatrix project

MySpace Music: So What? » the dotmatrix project — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:18:15 +0000

[...] wonder they can’t find a CEO to run the MySpace Music operation. This isn’t a music service; it’s a music hack. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “MySpace [...]

By: A Brand Manager’s Take on MySpace Music « Hard Knox Life: A Brand Manager Blog by Dave Knox

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:14:26 +0000

[...] EMI to come onboard as the final major label on the site. Though they still don’t have a CEO in place, they do have a rumored $2 billion valuation and some serious buzz at launch. All the usual tech [...]

By: MySpace Music Puts The Industry On The Right Track

MySpace Music Puts The Industry On The Right Track — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:47:27 +0000

[...] labels own around 40% of MySpace Music. MySpace owns the other 60%, and presumably new employees, like the pending CEO hire, will dilute [...]

By: lolhead

lolhead — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:51:34 +0000

stop with the “here’s me interviewing Chris DeWolfe, yum yum”, every opportutnity u get, god your so gay

By: MySpace Music Already Has Revenue Locked, May Raise Outside Capital At $2 Billion Valuation

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:43:36 +0000

[...] Music. Our sources say no deal is imminent, however. At the very least investors may want to see a CEO in place before they put that kind of money into the [...]

By: Is Facebook Jealous Of MySpace? | tinyCrunch

Is Facebook Jealous Of MySpace? | tinyCrunch — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:51:00 +0000

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By: VideosLocator.com

VideosLocator.com — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:22:51 +0000

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By: G

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:45:41 +0000

from paidcontent.org — “Chris DeWolfe believes that MySpace Music could generate enough money through ad sales, downloads, and eventually music-related e-commerce like T-shirt and concert ticket sales to put the industry back on its feet again”

T-Shirts, Concert Tickets, and Advertising. – everyone in the music business has been talking about these same “revenue themes” for ages – If this is the MySpace Master Plan to “put the industry back on its feet again (Chris DeWolfe)” and compete with the Apple (T-Shirts to compete with the iPod – oh boy) ,… good luck fellas….

By: LostLocator.com

LostLocator.com — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:51:38 +0000

“my” has been permanently imbedded in the minds of the digital universe as a result of myspace with a newscorp spin. its called personalized online branding communication. said nothing about any site that used my would in any way automatically be successful. your lame. i got a channel for people like you.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » 続く、MySpace MusicのCEO探し、第1候補はFacebookのOwen Van Natta

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:27:23 +0000

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By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:19:22 +0000

you’re a hipocrite…talking about how the MY in myspace defined them, and others jumped on the MY bandwagon too w/ little success…yet your site is a MY too

By: John D.

John D. — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:58 +0000

Internet Censorship & Internet 2
http://www.yout...h?v=rFhbSolKWP0

It’s not going to happen. It is happening.

Michael – This should be front page material.

By: Shams

Shams — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:49:34 +0000

First there was much attempts to show myspace is bigger and better than facebook. Now it’s all gone past. New pill is myspace music and itune, although myspace is no match for itune. Let them get the most qualified ceo on earth, myspace will go to myhell. Myspace has no future. It’s dying now. So don’t make much talk about it. It’s only noise. The final equation: myspace = myhell.

By: usri

usri — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:44:49 +0000

If myspace expand their business with music, perhaps friendster and facebook will follow at the future.

By: pedalpete

pedalpete — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:37:28 +0000

Focusing on the ‘music store’ and partnering with labels seems to me to be a poor plan for MySpace.

Even stealing music is passé when you can just stream it whenever and wherever you want ala skreemr, songza, mixturtle, even MySpace (though they are missing the experience side of things).

Plus as has been said before MySpace built there market on the back of indies and yet those seem to be the musicians who are left out of this important and possibly significant change.

Live shows is where it’s at, which is why I built HearWhere based on data from MySpace.
http://www.HearWhere.com

By: Martin Folb

Martin Folb — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:23:36 +0000

I think MySpace has a huge edge on iTunes from the perspective of the independent musician and should focus on that. This group of producers are growing daily and will challenge the traditional music industry (and iTunes which are very much affiliated with labels and marketing firms and have taken over as the new label) in the next 10 years. MySpace has always been about empowering the individual, self branding and self marketing. The MySpace music player is the ultimate differentiator and in my opinion is mostly responsible for the success of MySpace as a whole. By providing well executed tools and functionality to the MySpace band, and to the MySpace audience, they could easily start taking market from iTunes.

I speak from experience as I am a electronic music producer as well as running my own technology company JavaDojo. I write, produce, master and distribute my own music and sell primarily through my Snocap store on my MySpace band page (www.myspace.com/tracksthatflow) I am part of a growing community of producers fed up with labels and iTunes which take up to 90% of the sale price (sound familiar?) We want to sell our own music, on our own pages.

Where am I going, MySpace, find a CEO from the music industry, build the right functionality to empower the musicians themselves (sale tracking and marketing tools), deliver a MySpace Band Manager desktop application RIA, and take on iTunes for real!

Consumers love being in control of their shopping experience as well, and going to the MySpace Band page, seeing the brand, style and personality of the band, and being able to purchase music and merchandise FROM this brand page, is what they want. Down with the corporate middle man!

Martin Folb
http://www.javadojo.com
http://www.incamoon.com

By: Tom Staton

Tom Staton — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:04:02 +0000

Why don’t they just get the ex-Google guy who just left Cuil. I hear he’s looking for work…

http://www.SchoolShift.com
Your Experience. Your Life. Your School.

By: D

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:53:55 +0000

So he was part of Amazon’s failed A9 service and then got kicked out of Facebook. What, on earth, makes him qualified to be CEO of Myspace Music? Am I missing something here?

By: Music Plugin

Music Plugin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:40:53 +0000

It is interesting to see MySpace take this approach to handle ITunes.

It might turn out to be the ‘Adwords’ idea introduced by Google when they lacked a killer idea to generate revenue using the huge user base they accumulated with search.

Lets wait and see

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:35:26 +0000

why the rush for a ceo?

just make tom the hacker the ceo