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| Tom Anderson | |
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| Born | November 8, 1970 |
| Spouse(s) | None |
| Website MySpace |
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Thomas "Tom" Anderson (November 8, 1970[citation needed]) is the president, head of product and co-founder of the social networking website MySpace. Tom Anderson co-founded MySpace in 2003, along with Chris DeWolfe. He is now a strategic adviser for MySpace. Because newly created MySpace accounts include Tom as a default "friend," he has become known as the default picture of MySpace. As of February 5, 2010, Tom's profile has 273, 697,257 friends.
In 2003, working for eUniverse under the purview of Brad Greenspan, he and a few other eUniverse employees set up the first pages of MySpace, and the site grew from there.[citation needed] It is currently one of the most popular social networking websites in the United States (listing consistently among the top ten on Alexa Top 500 Global Sites, after its main competitor, Facebook).[1]
He briefly appeared in the 2009 American drama-comedy Funny People starring Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann.[2]
Before MySpace
Before MySpace Anderson got his start at Intermix (formerly eUniverse) where he worked on a series of profitable internet ventures[3]. According to Julia Angwin and her sources for the book Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control The Most Popular Website in America[4], eUniverse made money running spyware and spam operations, as well as selling subscription skin medication (made famous by the ubiquitous "Better than Botox?" ads). According to Angwin, Anderson also made money as an affiliate for Asian porn website TeamAsian, which later became an issue with Rupert Murdoch after MySpace's acquisition.
References
- ^ Alexa site rankings
- ^ IMDb profile credits for Funny People
- ^ Snyder, Chris (03.03.09). "Q&A Stealing MySpace" (in English). Wired. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/03/qa-stealing-mys/. Retrieved 6 February 2010.
- ^ Angwin, Julia (2009) (in English). Stealing MySpace: the battle to control the most popular website in America. Random House, 2009. ISBN 1400066948, 9781400066940. http://books.google.com/books?id=c-lEzyA4TSQC&printsec=frontcover. Retrieved 06.02.10.