Comments on: MySpace’s San Francisco Office Remains Open Despite Reports To The Contrary

By: The Artless Dodger

The Artless Dodger — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:19:19 +0000

- Allen Hurff was part of this wave of Layoffs. My mistake.

By: The Artless Dodger

The Artless Dodger — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:25:58 +0000

Just to echo what has been said in previous posts, 720 people (300 back in August/Sept. of 2008 and 420 yesterday) lost their jobs because of 6 Executives that made extremely poor decisions – SIX…I could name them all (4 of which are known and have been mentioned here on Techcrunch.)

My question is this: Who’s left from the Executive Pool? Jeff Berman is still there…as is Tom Anderson, Tom Andrus (VP Product), Allen Hurff (VP Engineering), Kevin Freund (VP of Media) and John Faith (VP of Mobile). How long before they are gone? How can one be a VP of a division that has no people in it?

My prediction is that the current incarnation of MySpace (the Social Network) will be dead by end of year. It’ll morph into something that resembles the bastard child of TMZ, Hulu and Egotastic.com

By: led screen

led screen — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:26:31 +0000

sometime can open myspace .sometime is not . died.

By: cease

cease — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:30:38 +0000

either you forgot the sarcasm tags, or whatever your smoking .. pass it this way

By: Don Synstelien

Don Synstelien — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:57:50 +0000

I’d recommend against that. That’s a personal decision on their part.

By: john doe

john doe — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:56:37 +0000

I dare you

By: Bill Wilsonbill

Bill Wilsonbill — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:44:10 +0000

yeah, i’m sure owen’s in desperate need of help. what’s he making, probably 1M/year.

let’s remember, folks, MS is owned by FOX, which is about as evil as evil gets.

By: Ex-employee

Ex-employee — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:43:03 +0000

Can we post names of who was laid off.

By: Mayank Agarwal

Mayank Agarwal — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:40:28 +0000

good for you then!! God help myspace from Owen Van Natta.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:30:49 +0000

this isn’t restricted to only myspace, rumor has it that other FIM properties will be affected BIG time tomorrow.

By: ExMyspacer

ExMyspacer — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:20:04 +0000

I was laid off too….and in the most unprofessional way. My boss didn’t even come say good-bye. But I think they did me a favor. I hated working there. It was a constant cluster-f of BS and high school drama. So long!

By: anon

anon — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:17:53 +0000

lot more happening tomorrow….

By: itMe

itMe — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:14:40 +0000

Well Music is a start, remember they don’t have to pay for songs uploaded by artists they also pull content from deals like Hulu and other media in the News corp universe. The content is all there but execution deserves a lot to be desired, Hopefully at the end of this MS will be a leaner and meaner machine. And Yes they are still here in San Francisco, Its pretty bare right now though as I left. Last I heard FIM’s other properties(IGN, rotten tomatoes) in the bay area might be consolidated at the SF office. I have nothing but good things to say about the company and the people I worked with. BTW I’m not ex-employee above.

By: ex ms vet

ex ms vet — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:11:11 +0000

i’d be very surprised if they took out the whole office. i can’t say why without revealing my own identity, but let’s just say if they do that, that’d reveal the execs criteria for letting everyone go wasn’t much more than a pinned up spreadsheet and some darts… hey… wait a minute!

By: Ashu

Ashu — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:04:40 +0000

I think he/she is talking about Media/Entertainment/Celebrity content from parent FIM company. I met a couple of Myspace Employees at a devjam and this is what they would mention while differentiating themselves from Facebook.

By: Bill Wilsonbill

Bill Wilsonbill — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:59:41 +0000

I think MySpace is the wave of the future. Facebook leads now but MySpace is growing and will soon totally take over FB and Twitter and maybe even Google. They’re already totally beaten Yahoo and widgets.

By: musicextreme

musicextreme — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:51:45 +0000

sorry to here that, and glad for your positive attitude. I wish you luck and much success…

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:50:17 +0000

ex – will you expand on the “they have…content” sentence? Are you talking about MySpace Music? Something else?

By: musicextreme

musicextreme — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:41:27 +0000

2 different products, vieing for similar eyballs, in a downturn economy. Myspace will work it out.

By: ex-employee

ex-employee — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:39:45 +0000

my ass got laid off today and i’m confident MS will comeback on top. they have what others don’t have, content…lots and lots of content from other newscorp companies.

By: JP

JP — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:35:52 +0000

Yay, this should mean cheaper space in SF. Maybe Hi5 can take it

By: anon

anon — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:33:08 +0000

Don’t fear the reaper.

By: Ryan Willis

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:29:41 +0000

Cheaper to go overseas with it. I think they realize that they are not standing a chance against facebook. I can foresee myspace being the underdog for quite some time.

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:29:16 +0000

Myspace is now DeadSpace.

By: Philip Nowak

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:28:31 +0000

MySpace sucks anyway. Too many ads everywhere. The user interface is strange and the site is full of spammers. Garbage belongs in a landfill.