num_pages: 384
description: A fast-paced and deeply reported look at the unlikely success of MySpace the Web 2.0 phenomenon and the drama surrounding one of the biggest deals of the Internet age. Barely funded technologically inept conceptually derivative and driven by rivalries the company that was to morph into the biggest Internet site in the world had an unlikely beginning. This is the fascinating and surprising story that includes all the elements of a great business obsessive characters from co-founders Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe to Rupert Murdock relentless and unlikely innovation and dizzying back room deal-making; all centered around an epic battle for control.
language: English
title: Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America
publisher: Random House