Beck and Jenn

Cutting the fat??? No fattening their wallets at the expense of people. when owen met with us in the el segundo office he promised us this is the team they wanted and all this shit that sounded really good and gave us hope and a false sense of security and then shortly after people are losing their jobs and now more lay offs..

It was probably EJ best move to bounce before the ship sink.

Team ClickFacts wishes you luck in your newest venture and happy that you are still leading the cyber crime charge. If there is ever time for a super hero, I would say it is about now. We are seeing that the cyber criminals keep raising the bar. Keep up the good fight.

Thank you. You have been overly kind in this post and unfortuantely did not give credit where credit is due.

MySpace employees one of the best security abuse and enforcement team in the field and it was my pleasure to work with them. The significiant decrease in spam and phishing on MySpace is a result of the hard work and innovations of the whole team.

So as much as I would like ot take credit for the work done, the praise above should be lauded on those working in the trenches more so then me.

Unfortunately a number of those have lost their jobs but the team left behind is more than capable to protect MySpace’s user base

I was so excited when I heard Owen was coming in. I really thought things would get better…but I think they are only going to get worse. I heard some of the things that are being talked about….I think those that are left are too scared to speak up, or just completely clueless. I have stories that would make most people vomit.

However, over the last few months, it is my opinion that MySpace and their collective new exec lineup are showing the world how NOT to run a social networking company, or more appropriately how to run one into the ground.

Being one of the many employees that were cut, and one with three years of tenure, I can safely say that there were many folks dropped from this team that should not have been. And too many of them, engineers. There was no discernable or clear rational for the criteria used to determine who stayed and who went. I guarantee it had nothing to do with tenure or performance or work ethic, that’s for sure.

So with all these bad decisions, I must ask you, why wouldn’t anyone want to hear about this trainwreck as it unfolds? Because I for one would love to hear how this one ends and all the events leading up to this inevitable demise.

So Michael Arrington, I say please continue reporting. Becuase if Miller, van Natta and co. cannot provide this level of transparency to their own team and the rest of the world, we need someone who will.

Despite the current challenges, MySpace remains one of the biggest sites on the internet; the founders and the team at MySpace built a massive community and created a cultural phenomenon–albeit in a very short period of time–that no internet companies had been able to replicate. The achievements thus far should not be taken lightly in spite of the current turmoil and tough time.

As a long time reader of Techcrunch, I would like to request, very sincerely, your earnest decency–and your utmost professional journalism–when it comes to MySpace.

Many thanks.

It would be easy just not to approve them, it’s an active choice that Facebook makes looking for more revenue from ads