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122-487: Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace ; also myspace ; and sometimes my␣ , with an elongated open box symbol ) is a social networking service based in the United States. Launched on August 1, 2003, it was the first social network to reach a global audience and had a significant influence on technology, pop culture and music. It also played a critical role in the early growth of companies like YouTube and created

244-423: A Facebook post, stating that the lawsuits were a good faith effort to pay the partial owners of the land their "fair share". When he learned that Hawaiian land ownership law differs from that of the other 49 states, he dropped the lawsuits. Zuckerberg stated that he regretted not taking the time to understand the process and its history before moving ahead. On April 10 and 11, 2018, Zuckerberg testified before

366-415: A "good guy". The film is based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich , which the book's publicist once described as "big juicy fun" rather than "reportage". The film's screenwriter Aaron Sorkin told New York magazine , "I don't want my fidelity to be the truth; I want it to be storytelling", adding, "What is the big deal about accuracy purely for accuracy's sake, and can we not have

488-508: A "reputation as a programming prodigy". He studied psychology and computer science , resided in Kirkland House , and belonged to Alpha Epsilon Pi . In his second year, he wrote a program that he called CourseMatch, which allowed users to make class selection decisions based on the choices of other students and help them form study groups. Later, he created a different program he initially called Facemash that let students select

610-670: A January 2024 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on child safety and social media platforms, Zuckerberg, along with other tech CEOs, were questioned about their companies' practices. During the hearing, he apologized to the families of children who were victims of online abuse and harm. Court documents allege that Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta's proposals to improve teenagers' mental health. He consistently opposed efforts to enhance well-being on Facebook and Instagram, overriding senior executives such as Instagram head Adam Mosseri and Global Affairs President Nick Clegg , as revealed in an ongoing lawsuit. Internal communications disclosed in

732-420: A competitive threat to its new Myspace Videos service, the site in late 2005 banned embedded YouTube videos from user profiles, which was widely protested by Myspace users, prompting the site to lift the ban shortly after. There were a variety of environments in which users could access Myspace content on their mobile phones. In early 2006, mobile phone provider Helio released a series of mobile phones utilizing

854-511: A day. A year later, it was registering 320,000 users a day, and had overtaken Yahoo! to become the most visited website in the United States. ComScore said that a key driver of the site's success in the US was high "engagement levels", with the average MySpace user viewing over 660 pages a month. In January 2006, Fox announced plans to launch a UK version of MySpace. During 2006, MySpace launched localized versions in 11 countries across Europe, Asia and

976-486: A definition of whitespace consistent with the algorithm for bidirectional writing ("Bidirectional Character Type=WS") and are known as "Bidi-WS" characters. The remaining characters may also be used, but are not of this "Bidi" type. Note: Depending on the browser and fonts used to view the following table, not all spaces may be displayed properly. Unicode also provides some visible characters that can be used to represent various whitespace characters, in contexts where

1098-633: A developer platform that launched companies such as Zynga , RockYou , and Photobucket , among others, to success. From 2005 to 2009, Myspace was the largest social networking site in the world. In July 2005, Myspace was acquired by News Corporation for $ 580 million; in June 2006, it surpassed Yahoo and Google to become the most visited website in the United States. During the 2008 fiscal year, it generated $ 800 million in revenue. At its peak in April 2008, Myspace had 115 million monthly visitors; by that time,

1220-571: A distribution outlet for Fox studio content and missed the US$ 1 billion mark in total revenues. This resulted in DeWolfe and Anderson gradually losing their status within Murdoch's inner circle of executives, as well as DeWolfe's mentor Peter Chernin , president and COO of News Corporation, departing the company in June 2009. Former AOL executive Jonathan Miller, who joined News Corporation in charge of

1342-426: A few prescribed elements, such as the pre tag and any element for which CSS has been used to apply pre -like whitespace processing. In such elements, space characters will not be "collapsed" into inter-word separators. In both XML and HTML, the non-breaking space character, along with other non-"standard" spaces, is not treated as collapsible "whitespace", so it is not subject to the rules above. Such usage

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1464-548: A lawsuit in 2004; it was dismissed on a technicality on March 28, 2007. It was refiled soon thereafter in a federal court in Boston . Facebook countersued in regards to Social Butterfly, a project put out by The Winklevoss Chang Group , an alleged partnership between ConnectU and i2hub . On June 25, 2008, the case settled and Facebook agreed to transfer over 1.2 million common shares and pay $ 20 million in cash. In November 2007, confidential court documents were posted on

1586-471: A limited degree – interrupting the normal sequence of rendering characters next to each other. The output of subsequent characters is typically shifted to the right (or to the left for right-to-left script ) or to the start of the next line. The effect of multiple sequential whitespace characters is cumulative such that the next printable character is rendered in a location based on the accumulated effect of preceding whitespace characters. The term whitespace

1708-502: A live Q&A session at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park on December 11, 2014. The founder and CEO explained that he does not believe Facebook is a waste of time, because it facilitates social engagement, and participating in a public session was so that he could "learn how to better serve the community". Zuckerberg receives a one-dollar salary as CEO of Facebook. In June 2016, Business Insider named Zuckerberg one of

1830-545: A new redesign was announced, with no date given, making Myspace more visual and apparently optimized for tablets. The redesign was publicly released on January 15, 2013; by April 2013 (and presumably before), users were able to transfer to the new Myspace redesign. In June 2013, the redesign deleted all previous blogs, angering many users, and destroying information that would have been useful history in later years. VP, Business Development 2006–2009 VP Communications & Policy 2006–2007 Since early 2006, Myspace has offered

1952-425: A new site design on a limited scale, with plans to switch all interested users to the new site in late November. Chief executive Mike Jones said the site was no longer competing with Facebook as a general social networking site; instead, it would be music-oriented and would target younger people. Jones believed most younger users would continue to use the site after the redesign, though older users might not. The goal of

2074-476: A nuisance. Most languages only recognize whitespace characters that have an ASCII code. They disallow most or all of the Unicode codes listed above. The C language defines whitespace characters to be "space, horizontal tab, new-line, vertical tab, and form-feed". The HTTP network protocol requires different types of whitespace to be used in different parts of the protocol, such as: only the space character in

2196-456: A ranking. The site went up over a weekend, but by Monday morning, the college shut it down, because its popularity had overwhelmed one of Harvard's network switches preventing students from accessing the Internet. In addition, many students complained that their photos were being used without permission. Zuckerberg apologized publicly, and the student paper ran articles stating that his site

2318-523: A read-only mode of sorts, as no new articles have been published since early 2022, but media uploads seem to be working now. MySpace's official account has also sparked some new activity. However, most images on the site still seem to be broken, and existing songs also cannot be played. The terms of service of Myspace have not been changed by Viant. The privacy policy was last revised on 24 June 2024. From YouTube 's founding in 2005, Myspace users could embed YouTube videos in their profiles. Considering this

2440-401: A recommendation engine for new users that suggests games, music and videos based on their previous search habits. The security on Myspace was also enhanced, with the criticism of Facebook , to make it a safer site. The security of Myspace enables users to choose if the content could be viewed for "friends only", "18 and older" or "everyone". In October 2010, Myspace introduced a beta version of

2562-571: A reporter that Ceglia's counsel had unsuccessfully sought an out-of-court settlement. On October 26, 2012, federal authorities arrested Ceglia, charging him with mail and wire fraud and of "tampering with, destroying and fabricating evidence in a scheme to defraud the Facebook founder of billions of dollars". Ceglia is accused of fabricating emails to make it appear that he and Zuckerberg discussed details about an early version of Facebook, although after examining their emails, investigators found there

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2684-574: A service known as Myspace Mobile to access and edit one's profile and communicate with and view the profiles of other members. Additionally, UIEvolution and Myspace developed a mobile version of Myspace for a wider range of carriers, including AT&T , Vodafone and Rogers Wireless . In August 2006, Myspace began offering classified ads, a service which grew by 33 percent during the following year. It previously had an instant messaging tool called MySpace IM . Myspace used an implementation of Telligent Community for its forum system. Shortly after Myspace

2806-650: A single space, and spaces which appear on either side of the " = " that separates an attribute name from its value have no effect on the interpretation of the document. Element end tags can contain trailing spaces, and empty-element tags in XML can contain spaces before the " /> ". In these languages, unnecessary whitespace increases the file size, and so may slow network transfers. On the other hand, unnecessary whitespace can also inconspicuously mark code, similar to, but less obvious than comments in code. This can be desirable to prove an infringement of license or copyright that

2928-651: A socially inept nerd is overstated ... It is fiction ...". He likewise dismissed the film's assertion that he "would deliberately betray a friend". Zuckerberg voiced himself on an episode of The Simpsons titled " Loan-a Lisa ", which first aired on October 3, 2010. In the episode, Lisa Simpson and her friend Nelson encounter Zuckerberg at an entrepreneurs' convention. Zuckerberg tells Lisa that she does not need to graduate from college to be wildly successful, referencing Bill Gates and Richard Branson as examples. On October 9, 2010, Saturday Night Live lampooned Zuckerberg and Facebook. Andy Samberg portrayed

3050-504: A space. The logo change was announced on October 8, 2010, and appeared on the site on November 11. In the same month, Myspace integrated with Facebook Connect – calling it "Mash Up with Facebook" in an announcement widely seen as the final act of acknowledging Facebook's domination of social networking. In January 2011, it was announced that the Myspace staff would be reduced by 47%. User adoption continued to decrease. In September 2012,

3172-423: A surprise guest appearance on Saturday Night Live , which was hosted by Jesse Eisenberg. They both said it was the first time they had met. Eisenberg asked Zuckerberg, who had been critical of his portrayal by the film, what he thought of the movie. Zuckerberg replied, "It was interesting." In a subsequent interview about their meeting, Eisenberg explained that he was "nervous to meet him, because I had spent now,

3294-444: A team of programmers and resources provided by eUniverse. It was during this early period in June 2003, just prior to the birth of MySpace, that Jeffrey Edell was brought on as chairman of parent company Intermix Media. The first MySpace users were eUniverse employees. The company held contests to see who could sign up the most users. eUniverse used its 20 million users and e-mail subscribers to breathe life into MySpace and move it to

3416-561: A visible symbol must be displayed: Text editors , word processors , and desktop publishing software differ in how they represent whitespace on the screen, and how they represent spaces at the ends of lines longer than the screen or column width. In some cases, spaces are shown simply as blank space; in other cases they may be represented by an interpunct or other symbols. Many different characters (described below) could be used to produce spaces, and non-character functions (such as margins and tab settings) can also affect whitespace. Many of

3538-500: A way to get users back. However, this may have backfired, as users generally disliked tweaks and changes on Facebook. In March 2011, market research figures released by Comscore suggested that Myspace had lost 10 million users between January and February 2011, and had fallen from 95 million to 63 million unique users in the previous 12 months. Myspace registered its sharpest audience declines in February 2011, as traffic fell 44% from

3660-477: A year and a half thinking about him ...". He added, "Mark has been so gracious about something that's really so uncomfortable ... The fact that he would do SNL and make fun of the situation is so sweet and so generous. It's the best possible way to handle something that, I think, could otherwise be very uncomfortable." According to David Kirkpatrick , former technology editor at Fortune magazine and author of The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of

3782-458: A year earlier to 37.7 million U.S. visitors. Advertisers were reported as unwilling to commit to long-term deals with the site. In late February 2011, News Corporation officially put the site up for sale for an estimated $ 50–200 million. Losses from the last quarter of 2010 were $ 156 million, over double the previous year, which dragged down the otherwise strong results of News Corporation. The deadline for bids, May 31, 2011, passed without any above

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3904-412: Is a board member of the solar sail spacecraft development project Breakthrough Starshot , which he co-founded with Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking in 2016. Harvard students Cameron Winklevoss , Tyler Winklevoss , and Divya Narendra accused Zuckerberg of intentionally making them believe he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com (later called ConnectU ). They filed

4026-525: Is a convention. Applications sometimes render whitespace characters as visible markup so that a user can see what is normally not visible. Typically, a user types a space character by pressing spacebar , a tab character by pressing Tab ↹ and newline by pressing ↵ Enter . The table below lists the twenty-five characters defined as whitespace ("WSpace=Y", "WS") characters in the Unicode Character Database. Seventeen use

4148-426: Is based on tab stops which vary by application . A newline character sequence typically moves the render output location to the beginning of the next line. If one follows text, it does not actually result in whitespace. But, two sequential newline sequences between text blocks results in a blank line between the blocks. The height of the blank line varies by application. Using whitespace characters to layout text

4270-669: Is intertwined with the aim of the Internet.org project, whereby Facebook, with the support of other technology companies, seeks to increase the number of people connected to the internet. Zuckerberg was the keynote speaker at the 2014 Mobile World Congress (MWC), held in Barcelona , Spain, in March 2014, which was attended by 75,000 delegates. Various media sources highlighted the connection between Facebook's focus on mobile technology and Zuckerberg's speech, stating that mobile represents

4392-460: Is just not an attractive idea to me." The same year, speaking at Y Combinator 's Startup School course at Stanford University , Zuckerberg made a controversial assertion that "young people are just smarter" and that other entrepreneurs should bias towards hiring young people. He restated these goals to Wired magazine in 2010, "The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open." Earlier, in April 2009, Zuckerberg had sought

4514-524: Is rooting in the common practice of rendering text on white paper . Normally, a whitespace character is not rendered as white. It affects rendering, but it is not itself rendered. A space character typically inserts horizontal space that is about as wide as a letter. For a monospaced font the width is the width of a letter, and for a variable-width font the width is font-specific. Some fonts support multiple space characters that have different widths. A tab character typically inserts horizontal space that

4636-418: Is similar to multiword file names written for operating systems and applications that are confused by embedded space codes—such file names instead use an underscore (_) as a word separator, as_in_this_phrase. Another such symbol was U+2422 ␢ BLANK SYMBOL . This was used in the early years of computer programming when writing on coding forms. Keypunch operators immediately recognized

4758-401: Is syntactically significant. In the satirical and contrarian language called Whitespace , whitespace characters are the only significant characters and normal text is ignored. Good use of white space in source code can group related logic and make the code easier to understand. Excessive use of whitespace, including at the end of a line where it provides no rendering behavior, is considered

4880-486: Is that you can build something really good in a night", Zuckerberg told Levy. "And that's part of the personality of Facebook now ... It's definitely very core to my personality." In 2007, Zuckerberg was added to MIT Technology Review 's TR35 list as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35. Vanity Fair magazine named Zuckerberg number 1 on its 2010 list of the Top 100 "most influential people of

5002-934: The Information Age ". Zuckerberg ranked number 23 on the Vanity Fair 100 list in 2009. In 2010, Zuckerberg was chosen as number 16 in New Statesman ' s annual survey of the world's 50 most influential figures. In a 2011 interview with PBS shortly after the death of Steve Jobs , Zuckerberg said that Jobs had advised him on how to create a management team at Facebook that was "focused on building as high quality and good things as you are". On October 1, 2012, Zuckerberg met with then Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow to stimulate social media innovation in Russia and to boost Facebook's position in

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5124-559: The United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation regarding the usage of personal data by Facebook in relation to the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal . He called the whole affair a breach of trust between Aleksandr Kogan , Cambridge Analytica , and Facebook. Zuckerberg refused requests to appear to give evidence on the matter to a Parliamentary committee in

5246-430: The numeric character references   or   , or the named entity   , although that is not universally supported in browsers as of 2016. The thin space is named entity   and numeric references   or   . These spaces are much thinner than a normal space (except in a monospaced (non-proportional) font ), with the hair space in particular being

5368-420: The status line, CRLF at the end of a line, and "linear whitespace" in header values. Typical command-line parsers use the space character to delimit arguments . A value with an embedded space character is problematic since it causes the value to parse as multiple arguments. Typically, a parser allows for escaping the normal argument parsing by enclosing the text in quotes. Consider that one wants to list

5490-541: The world's wealthiest individuals . He has also used his funds to organize multiple donations, including the establishment of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative . A film depicting Zuckerberg's early career, legal troubles and initial success with Facebook, The Social Network , was released in 2010 and won multiple Academy Awards . His prominence and fast rise in the technology industry has prompted political and legal attention. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg

5612-527: The "MySpace Dragon Hoard". Since early 2022, music upload and playback have been disabled on the website. On May 16, 2007, Myspace partnered with news publications National Geographic, the New York Times and Reuters to provide professional visual contents on its social-networking Web site. On June 27, 2007, Myspace launched MySpaceTV. On August 8, 2007, Myspace partnered with satire publication The Onion to provide audio, video and print content to

5734-634: The "Top 10 Business Visionaries Creating Value for the World" along with Elon Musk and Sal Khan , due to the fact that he and his wife "pledged to give away 99% of their wealth-then estimated at $ 55.0 billion". On May 25, 2017, at Harvard's 366th commencement day, Zuckerberg, after giving a commencement speech , received an honorary degree from Harvard. In January 2019, Zuckerberg laid plans to integrate an end-to-end encrypted system for three major social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp . On August 14, 2020, Facebook integrated

5856-488: The "mythical place" of Silicon Valley , the center of computer technology in California. They had already turned down offers by major corporations to buy the company. In an interview in 2007, Zuckerberg explained his reasoning: "It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates

5978-536: The $ 900 million three-year advertisement deal with Google, while being a short-term cash windfall, was a handicap in the long run, as it required MySpace to place even more ads on its already heavily advertised space, which made the site slow, more difficult to use and less flexible. MySpace could not experiment with its own site without forfeiting revenue, while Facebook was rolling out a new, clean site design. MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe reported that he had to push back against Fox Interactive Media's sales team, who monetized

6100-586: The Americas, including MySpace China with Solstice. At the time, Travis Katz , senior vice-president for international operations, reported that 30 million of the site's 90 million users were coming from outside of the United States. The 100 millionth MySpace account was created on August 9, 2006, in the Netherlands. That same month, MySpace signed a landmark advertising deal with Google that guaranteed MySpace $ 900 million over three years, over 55% more than

6222-461: The Company that is Connecting the World (2011), "the film is only 40% true ... he is not snide and sarcastic in a cruel way, the way Zuckerberg is played in the movie." He says that "a lot of the factual incidents are accurate, but many are distorted and the overall impression is false", and concludes that primarily "his motivations were to try and come up with a new way to share information on

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6344-527: The Computer Revolution , wrote that Zuckerberg "clearly thinks of himself as a hacker ". Zuckerberg said that "it's OK to break things" "to make them better". Facebook instituted " hackathons " held every six to eight weeks where participants would have one night to conceive of and complete a project. The company provided music, food, and beer at the hackathons, and many Facebook staff members, including Zuckerberg, regularly attended. "The idea

6466-514: The Google deal. The remaining 50% came from display advertising sold by MySpace's in-house sales team. In November 2006, Myspace announced a 50-50 joint venture with Softbank to launch the site in Japan. In mid-2007, MySpace was the largest social-networking site in every European country where it had created a local presence. By July 2007, Nielsen//NetRatings reported the company's "active reach", or

6588-404: The Internet". Although the film portrayed Zuckerberg's creation of Facebook in order to elevate his stature after not getting into any of the elite final clubs at Harvard, Zuckerberg stated that he had no interest in joining the clubs. Kirkpatrick agreed that the impression implied by the film is "false". Karel Baloun, a former senior engineer at Facebook, noted that the "image of Zuckerberg as

6710-476: The Massachusetts-initiated legal action depict Zuckerberg's resistance to better protect over 30 million teens on Instagram in the U.S., highlighting his substantial influence on Meta's decisions impacting billions of users. These documents also shed light on occasional tensions between Zuckerberg and other Meta officials advocating for improved user well-being. A movie based on Zuckerberg and

6832-466: The Russian market. Russia's communications minister tweeted that Medvedev persuaded Zuckerberg to open a research center in Moscow instead of trying to lure away Russian programmers. In 2012, Facebook had roughly 9 million users in Russia, while domestic clone VK had around 34 million. Rebecca Van Dyck, Facebook's head of consumer marketing, said that 85 million American Facebook users were exposed to

6954-492: The US Capitol Building , and its efforts to combat misinformation and hate speech. Zuckerberg acknowledged that Facebook had a responsibility to address these issues and outlined the steps that the company is taking to improve its policies and practices. The hearing was part of a broader effort by Congress to hold tech companies accountable for their role in shaping public discourse and protecting user privacy. In

7076-406: The Unicode space characters were created for compatibility with classic print typography. Even if digital typography has algorithmic kerning and justification, those space characters can be used to supplement the electronic formatting when needed. In computer character encodings , there is a normal general-purpose space (Unicode character U+0020) whose width will vary according to the design of

7198-688: The United Kingdom. On October 1, 2020, the US Senate Commerce Committee unanimously voted to issue subpoenas to the CEOs of three top tech firms, including Zuckerberg, Google 's Sundar Pichai and Twitter 's Jack Dorsey . The subpoenas aimed to force the CEOs to testify about the legal immunity the law affords tech platforms under Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934. US Republicans argued that

7320-405: The advice of former Netscape CFO Peter Currie regarding financing strategies for Facebook. On July 21, 2010, Zuckerberg reported that Facebook had reached the 500-million-user mark. When asked whether Facebook could earn more income from advertising as a result of its phenomenal growth, he explained: I guess we could ... If you look at how much of our page is taken up with ads compared to

7442-408: The average search query. The average for us is a little less than 10 percent of the pages and the average for search is about 20 percent taken up with ads ... That's the simplest thing we could do. But we aren't like that. We make enough money. Right, I mean, we are keeping things running; we are growing at the rate we want to. In 2010, Steven Levy , who wrote the 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of

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7564-410: The best-looking person from a choice of photos. Arie Hasit, Zuckerberg's roommate at the time, explained: We had books called "Face Books", which included the names and pictures of everyone who lived in the student dorms. At first, he built a site and placed two pictures or pictures of two males and two females. Visitors to the site had to choose who was "hotter" and according to the votes there would be

7686-410: The chat systems for Instagram and Messenger on both iOS and Android devices. The update encouraged cross-communication between Instagram and Facebook users. A month after Zuckerberg launched Facebook in February 2004, i2hub , another campus-only service, created by Wayne Chang and focusing on peer-to-peer file sharing, was launched. At the time, both i2hub and Facebook were gaining the attention of

7808-716: The climb up—and signal to flee when it's time to get out." The volatility of social networks was exemplified in 2006, when Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal launched an investigation into children's exposure to pornography on MySpace. The resulting media frenzy and the site's lack of an effective spam filter gave the site a reputation as a "vortex of perversion". Around that time, specialized social media companies such as Twitter formed and began targeting users on MySpace, while Facebook rolled out communication tools that were seen as safe in comparison to MySpace. In addition, MySpace had particular problems with vandalism, phishing, malware, and spam, which it failed to curtail, making

7930-569: The company for approximately $ 35 million. On February 11, 2016, it was announced that Myspace and its parent company had been purchased by Time Inc. for $ 87 million. On January 31, 2018, Time Inc. was in turn purchased by Meredith Corporation , and later that year, on November 4, 2019, Meredith spun off Myspace and its original holding company (Viant Technology Holding Inc.) and sold it to Viant Technology LLC. In August 2003, several eUniverse employees with Friendster accounts saw potential in its social networking features. The group decided to mimic

8052-543: The departure of key personnel (Myspace's COO, SVP of engineering, and SVP of strategy) to form a startup. Furthermore, the opening of extravagant new offices around the world was questioned, as Facebook did not have similarly expensive expansion plans but still attracted international users at a rapid rate. The changes to MySpace's executive ranks were followed in June 2009 by a layoff of 37.5% of its workforce (including 30% of its U.S. employees), reducing employees from 1,600 to 1,000. In 2009, MySpace implemented site redesigns as

8174-419: The digital media business, was in the job for three weeks when he shuffled MySpace's executive team in April 2009. MySpace president Tom Anderson stepped down while Chris DeWolfe was replaced as CEO by former Facebook COO Owen Van Natta . A meeting at News Corporation over the direction of MySpace in March 2009 was reportedly the catalyst for that management shakeup, with the Google search deal about to expire and

8296-455: The emergence of Facebook did little to diminish MySpace's popularity; at the time, Facebook was targeted only at college students. At its peak, when News Corporation attempted to merge it with Yahoo! in 2007, Myspace was valued at $ 12 billion and had more than 300 million registered users. On April 19, 2008, Facebook overtook MySpace in Alexa rankings. In May 2009, Facebook surpassed MySpace in

8418-649: The enforcement of China's online policy, at Facebook's headquarters on December 8, 2014. The meeting occurred after Zuckerberg participated in a Q&A session at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, on October 23, 2014, where he conversed in Mandarin Chinese ; although Facebook is banned in China, Zuckerberg is highly regarded among the people and was at the university to help fuel the nation's burgeoning entrepreneur sector. Zuckerberg fielded questions during

8540-614: The files in directory named "foo bar". This command instead lists the files matching either "foo" or "bar": This command correctly specifies a single argument: Some markup languages , such as SGML , preserve whitespace as written. Web markup languages such as XML and HTML treat whitespace characters specially, including space characters, for programmers' convenience. One or more space characters read by conforming display-time processors of those markup languages are collapsed to 0 or 1 space, depending on their semantic context. For example, double (or more) spaces within text are collapsed to

8662-417: The first 10 characters of the password converted to lowercase and stored without a cryptographic salt ). The exact data breach date is unknown, but analysis of the data suggests it was exposed around eight years before being made public, around mid-2008 to early 2009. In March 2019, Myspace lost all content before 2016 after a faulty server migration. As of October 5, 2024, Myspace has still been placed in

8784-566: The first day of the Home promotional campaign on April 6, 2013. On August 19, 2013, The Washington Post reported that Zuckerberg's Facebook profile was hacked by an unemployed web developer. At the 2013 TechCrunch Disrupt conference, held in September, Zuckerberg stated that he was working towards registering the 5 billion people who were not connected to the Internet as of the conference on Facebook. Zuckerberg then explained that this

8906-512: The five billion people without it as of the launch date. The project faced significant opposition in India, where activists said its limited internet ran counter to the principle of net neutrality ; Zuckerberg responded by saying that a limited internet was better than no internet. Internet.org was shut down in India in February 2016, although Zuckerberg later met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss further possibilities. Zuckerberg

9028-456: The founding years of Facebook, The Social Network , was released on October 1, 2010, starring Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg. After Zuckerberg was told about the film, he responded, "I just wished that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive." Also, after the film's script was leaked on the Internet and it was apparent that the film would not portray Zuckerberg in a wholly positive light, he stated that he wanted to establish himself as

9150-467: The future of the company. Zuckerberg's speech expands upon the goal that he raised at the TechCrunch conference in September 2013, whereby he is working towards expanding Internet coverage into developing countries. Alongside other American technology figures such as Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook , Zuckerberg hosted visiting Chinese politician Lu Wei , known as the "Internet czar" for his influence in

9272-418: The head of the pack of social networking websites. A key architect was tech expert Toan Nguyen, who helped stabilize the platform when Greenspan asked him to join the team. Co-founder and CTO Aber Whitcomb played an integral role in software architecture, utilizing the then-superior development speed of ColdFusion over other dynamic database driven server-side languages of the time. Despite having over ten times

9394-551: The issue with the United Nations General Assembly . In June 2010, Paul Ceglia, the owner of a wood pellet fuel company in Allegany County, upstate New York , filed suit against Zuckerberg, claiming 84 percent ownership of Facebook and seeking monetary damages. According to Ceglia, he and Zuckerberg signed a contract on April 28, 2003, that an initial fee of $ 1,000 entitled Ceglia to 50% of

9516-518: The law unduly protected social media companies against allegations of anti-conservative censorship. On March 25, 2021, Zuckerberg testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee regarding Facebook's role in the spread of misinformation and hate speech on the platform. During the hearing, he was questioned about Facebook's handling of user data, its role in the January 6, 2021, attack on

9638-481: The more popular features of the website. Within 10 days, the first version of MySpace was ready for launch, implemented using ColdFusion . A complete infrastructure of finance, human resources, technical expertise, bandwidth , and server capacity was available for the site. The project was overseen by Brad Greenspan (eUniverse's founder, chairman and CEO), who managed Chris DeWolfe (MySpace's starting CEO), Josh Berman, Tom Anderson (MySpace's starting president), and

9760-465: The number of developers, Friendster , which was developed in JavaServer Pages (jsp), could not keep up with the speed of development of MySpace and cfm . For example, users could customize the background, look and feel of pages on MySpace. The MySpace.com domain was originally owned by YourZ.com, Inc., intended until 2002 for use as an online data storage and sharing site. By late 2003, it

9882-418: The number of unique U.S. visitors. From that point, Myspace saw a consistent loss of membership. There are several suggested explanations for its decline, including the fact that it stuck to a "portal strategy" of building an audience around entertainment and music, whereas Facebook and Twitter continually added new features to improve the social networking experience. A former MySpace executive suggested that

10004-500: The option to access the service in different regional versions. The alternative regional versions present automated content according to locality (e.g., UK users see other UK users as "Cool New People", and UK-oriented events and adverts, etc.), offer local languages other than English, or accommodate the regional differences in spelling and conventions in the English-speaking world (e.g., United States: "favorites", mm/dd/yyyy;

10126-437: The parser to discourage the downstream application from altering whitespace in that element's content. In most HTML elements , a sequence of whitespace characters is treated as a single inter-word separator , which may manifest as a single space character when rendering text in a language that normally inserts such space between words. Conforming HTML renderers are required to apply a more literal treatment of whitespace within

10248-550: The percentage of the population that visited the site, was anywhere from 10 to 15 times higher in Spain, France and Germany than for runner-up Facebook; in the United Kingdom, MySpace led Facebook by two-to-one in terms of reach. On November 1, 2007, MySpace and Bebo joined the Google-led OpenSocial alliance , which already included Friendster, Hi5 , LinkedIn , Plaxo , Ning , and Six Apart . The alliance's goal

10370-399: The press and growing rapidly in users and publicity. In August 2004, Zuckerberg, Andrew McCollum, Adam D'Angelo , and Sean Parker launched a competing peer-to-peer file sharing service called Wirehog , a precursor to Facebook Platform applications, which was launched in 2007. In 2013, Zuckerberg launched Internet.org , which he described as an initiative to provide Internet access to

10492-609: The price News Corporation had paid to acquire the business. In exchange, Google received exclusive rights to provide Web search results and sponsored links on MySpace. When the deal was signed, Google chairman Eric Schmidt said, "When we looked at what was growing on the Web, all our internal metrics pointed to [MySpace] [...] It's important to move Google to where users are, and that is where user-generated content is." By October 2006, MySpace had grown from generating $ 1 million in revenue per month to $ 30 million per month, half of which came from

10614-412: The project. Zuckerberg, Moskovitz and the other co-founders moved to Palo Alto, California , where they leased a small house that served as an office. Over the summer, Zuckerberg met Peter Thiel , who invested in his company. They got their first office in mid-2004. According to Zuckerberg, the group planned to return to Harvard, but eventually decided to remain in California, where Zuckerberg appreciated

10736-414: The property before MySpace and its parent company eUniverse (now renamed Intermix Media ) were bought. In July 2005, in one of the company's first major Internet purchases, News Corporation purchased MySpace for US$ 580 million. At the time of the acquisition, the company was seeing 16 million monthly users and was growing exponentially. News Corporation had beat out Viacom by offering a higher price for

10858-563: The recently emergent Facebook had about the same number of visitors, but somewhat more global users than MySpace. In May 2009, Facebook surpassed Myspace in its number of unique U.S. visitors. Since then, the number of Myspace users has declined steadily despite several redesigns. By 2019, the number of monthly visitors to the site had dropped to seven million. In June 2009, Myspace employed approximately 1,600 people. In June 2011, Specific Media Group and Justin Timberlake jointly purchased

10980-472: The redesign was to increase the number of Myspace users and the time they spent on the site. BTIG (.com) analyst Richard Greenfield said, "Most investors have written off MySpace now," and was unsure whether the changes would help the company recover. In November 2010, Myspace changed its logo to coincide with the new site design. The word "my" appears in the Helvetica font, followed by a symbol representing

11102-422: The reserve price of $ 100 million being submitted. It has been said that the decline in users during the most recent quarter deterred several potential suitors. On June 29, 2011, Myspace announced in an email to label partners and press that it had been acquired by Specific Media for an undisclosed sum, which was rumored to be as low as $ 35 million. CNN reported that the site sold for $ 35 million, and noted that it

11224-408: The rest of the world: "favourites", dd/mm/yyyy). Whitespace character#Substitute images For example, a space character ( U+0020   SPACE , ASCII 32) represents blank space such as a word divider in a Western script . A printable character results in output when rendered, but a whitespace character does not. Instead, whitespace characters define the layout of text to

11346-530: The role of Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg himself was reported to have been amused, "I thought this was funny." Stephen Colbert awarded a "Medal of Fear" to Zuckerberg at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on October 30, 2010, "because he values his privacy much more than he values yours". Zuckerberg appeared in the climax of 2013 documentary film Terms and Conditions May Apply . The South Park episode " Franchise Prequel " mocked him. According to CNET , he

11468-439: The site seem inhospitable. These have been cited as factors why users, who as teenagers were MySpace's strongest audience in 2006 and 2007, had been migrating to Facebook, which started strongly with the 18-to-24 group (mostly college students) and has been much more successful than MySpace at attracting older users. News Corporation chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch was said to be frustrated that MySpace never met expectations as

11590-470: The site without regard to user experience. In 2012, Katz described how News Corporation had put significant pressure on MySpace to "focus on near-term monetization, as opposed to thinking about long-term product strategy," while Facebook focused user engagement over revenue. Danah Boyd , a senior researcher at Microsoft Research , noted of social networking websites that "companies might serially rise, fall, and disappear, as influential peers pull others in on

11712-637: The site. On October 22, 2007, Myspace launched its first original web series, Roommates , which intended to give its users a television-like experience with the interactive benefits of the Internet. On February 27, 2008, TMZ launched its web channel on MySpaceTV. On April 21, 2008, Myspace signed a deal with Byron Allen 's Entertainment Studios that brought programming such as the syndicated series Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen , Entertainers with Byron Allen , Beautiful Homes and Great Estates , and Designer Fashions & Runways to MySpaceTV. On March 10, 2010, Myspace added new features including

11834-652: The site. In late 2007, the site launched The MySpace Transmissions , a series of live-in-studio recordings by well-known artists. On March 18, 2019, it was revealed that Myspace had lost all of its user content from launch until 2015 in a botched server migration with no backup. Over 50 million songs and 12 years' worth of content were permanently lost. In April 2019, the Internet Archive recovered 490,000 MP3s "using unknown means by an anonymous academic study conducted between 2008 and 2010". The songs, which were uploaded between 2008 and 2010, are collectively known as

11956-452: The student social experience at many private schools. With them, students were able to list attributes such as their class years, their friends, and their telephone numbers. Six days after the site launched, three Harvard seniors, Cameron Winklevoss , Tyler Winklevoss , and Divya Narendra , accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing that he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com , when he

12078-597: The subject of multiple lawsuits regarding the creation and ownership of the website as well as issues such as user privacy. Zuckerberg briefly attended Harvard College , where he launched Facebook in February 2004 with his roommates Eduardo Saverin , Andrew McCollum , Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes . Zuckerberg took the company public in May 2012 with majority shares. He became the world's youngest self-made billionaire in 2008, at age 23, and has consistently ranked among

12200-475: The symbol as an "explicit space". It was used in BCDIC , EBCDIC , and ASCII-1963 . Mark Zuckerberg Mark Elliot Zuckerberg ( / ˈ z ʌ k ər b ɜːr ɡ / ; born May 14, 1984) is an American businessman who co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms , of which he is the chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder. Zuckerberg has been

12322-485: The text. In addition to this general-purpose space, it is possible to encode a space of a specific width. See the table below for a complete list. Em dashes used as parenthetical dividers, and en dashes when used as word joiners, are usually set continuous with the text. However, such a dash can optionally be surrounded with a hair space , U+200A, or thin space , U+2009. The hair space can be written in HTML by using

12444-425: The thinnest of horizontal whitespace characters. In most programming language syntax , whitespace characters can be used to separate tokens . For a free-form language , whitespace characters are ignored by code processors (i.e. compiler ). Even when language syntax requires white space, often multiple whitespace characters are treated the same as a single. In an off-side rule language, indentation white space

12566-628: The three filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg that resulted in a settlement. The agreed settlement was for 1.2 million Facebook shares and $ 20 million in cash. Zuckerberg's Facebook started off as just a "Harvard thing" until he decided to spread it to other schools, enlisting the help of roommate and co-founder Dustin Moskovitz . They began with Columbia University , New York University , Stanford University , Dartmouth College , Cornell University , University of Pennsylvania , Brown University , and Yale University . Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard in his sophomore year in order to complete

12688-529: The true be the enemy of the good?". Upon winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture on January 16, 2011, producer Scott Rudin thanked Facebook and Zuckerberg "for his willingness to allow us to use his life and work as a metaphor through which to tell a story about communication and the way we relate to each other". Sorkin, who won for Best Screenplay, retracted some of the impressions given in his script: In January 2011, Zuckerberg made

12810-406: The typeface. Typical values range from 1/5 em to 1/3 em (in digital typography an em is equal to the nominal size of the font, so for a 10-point font the space will probably be between 2 and 3.3 points). Sophisticated fonts may have differently sized spaces for bold, italic, and small-caps faces, and often compositors will manually adjust the width of the space depending on the size and prominence of

12932-446: The user's listening habits, which was posted to Slashdot and received a rating of 3 out of 5 from PC Magazine . The New Yorker once said of Zuckerberg, "some kids played computer games. Mark created them." While still in high school, he attended Mercy College taking a graduate computer course on Thursday evenings. The New Yorker noted that by the time Zuckerberg began classes at Harvard in 2002, he had already achieved

13054-462: The website of 02138 , a magazine that catered to Harvard alumni. They included Zuckerberg's Social Security number, his parents' home address, and his girlfriend's address. Although Facebook filed to have the documents removed, the judge ruled in favor of 02138 . In 2005, Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg and Facebook, alleging that Zuckerberg had illegally spent Saverin's money on personal expenses. The lawsuit

13176-432: The website's revenue, as well as an additional 1% interest in the business per day after January 1, 2004, until website completion. Zuckerberg was developing other projects at the time, among which was Facemash , the predecessor to Facebook, but did not register the domain name thefacebook.com until January 1, 2004. The Facebook management dismissed the lawsuit as "completely frivolous". Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt told

13298-404: The website, and the purchase was seen as a good investment at the time. Within a year, MySpace had tripled in value from its purchase price. News Corporation saw the purchase as a way to capitalize on Internet advertising and drive traffic to other News Corporation properties. After the acquisition, MySpace continued its exponential growth. In January 2006, the site was signing up 200,000 new users

13420-605: Was "completely improper". In January 2004, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website. On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com, in partnership with his roommates Eduardo Saverin , Andrew McCollum , Dustin Moskovitz , and Chris Hughes . An earlier inspiration for Facebook may have come from Phillips Exeter Academy , the prep school from which Zuckerberg graduated in 2002. It published its own student directory, "The Photo Address Book", which students referred to as "The Facebook". Such photo directories were an important part of

13542-498: Was "far less than the $ 580 million News Corp. paid for Myspace in 2005." Murdoch went on to call the Myspace purchase a "huge mistake", and Time magazine compared it to Time Warner 's 2000 purchase of AOL , which saw a conglomerate trying to stay ahead of the competition. Many former executives have gone on to further success after departing Myspace. On February 11, 2016, it was announced that Myspace and its parent company had been bought by Time Inc. On January 31, 2018, Time Inc.

13664-559: Was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York to psychiatrist Karen ( née  Kempner ) and dentist Edward Zuckerberg. He and his three sisters (Arielle, Randi , and Donna ) were raised in a Reform Jewish household in Dobbs Ferry, New York . His great-grandparents were emigrants from Austria, Germany, and Poland. Zuckerberg initially attended Ardsley High School before transferring to Phillips Exeter Academy . He

13786-483: Was captain of the fencing team. Zuckerberg learned computer programming in his childhood. At about the age of eleven, he created "ZuckNet", a program that allowed computers at the family home and his father's dental office to communicate with each other. During Zuckerberg's high-school years, he worked to build a music player called the Synapse Media Player. The device used machine learning to learn

13908-454: Was committed by copying and pasting . In XML attribute values, sequences of whitespace characters are treated as a single space when the document is read by a parser. Whitespace in XML element content is not changed in this way by the parser, but an application receiving information from the parser may choose to apply similar rules to element content. An XML document author can use the xml:space="preserve" attribute on an element to instruct

14030-478: Was hosted on Facebook. The investigation also named the anonymous German woman who created the contest. Sidiqque asked the country's police to contact Interpol to have Zuckerberg and the three others arrested for blasphemy . On May 19, 2010, Facebook's website was temporarily blocked in Pakistan until Facebook removed the contest from its website at the end of May. Sidiqque also asked its UN representative to raise

14152-514: Was in turn purchased by Meredith Corporation , who went on to sell a number of Time Inc.'s assets, including (as it announced on November 4, 2019) selling its equity in Viant , the parent company of Specific Media, back to Viant Technology Holding Inc. In May 2016, the data for almost 360 million Myspace accounts was offered on the "Real Deal" dark market website, which included email addresses, usernames, and weakly encrypted passwords ( SHA1 hashes of

14274-500: Was no mention of Facebook in them. Some law firms withdrew from the case before it was initiated and others after Ceglia's arrest. In 2014 Zuckerberg purchased 700 acres of land on the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi . In January 2017, Zuckerberg filed eight " quiet title and partition " lawsuits against hundreds of native Hawaiians to claim small tracts of land that they owned within his acreage. Zuckerberg responded to criticisms in

14396-416: Was settled out of court and, although terms of the settlement were sealed, the company affirmed Saverin's title as co-founder of Facebook, and Saverin agreed to stop talking to the press. In June 2010, then Pakistani Deputy Attorney General Muhammad Azhar Sidiqque launched a criminal investigation into Zuckerberg and Facebook co-founders Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes after a " Draw Muhammad " contest

14518-588: Was sold to News Corporation in 2005, the website launched a record label called MySpace Records , with JD Mangosing as CEO, in an effort to discover unknown talent on Myspace Music, a service onto which artists can upload songs, EPs and full-length albums. As of June 2014, over 53 million songs had been uploaded to the site by 14.2 million artists. Artists including My Chemical Romance , Nicki Minaj , Lily Allen , Taylor Swift , Lady Gaga , and Katy Perry gained fame and recognition through Myspace. As of 2010 over eight million artists had been discovered by users through

14640-497: Was to promote a common set of standards for software developers to write programs for social networks. Google had been unsuccessful in building its own social networking site Orkut in the American market, and was using the alliance to present a counterweight to Facebook. By late 2007 and into 2008, MySpace was considered the leading social networking site, and consistently beat out its main competitor Facebook in traffic. Initially,

14762-757: Was transitioned from a file storage service to a social networking site. A friend who also worked in the data storage business reminded DeWolfe that he had earlier bought the MySpace.com domain. DeWolfe suggested they charge a fee for the basic MySpace service. However, Greenspan nixed the idea, believing that keeping the site free was necessary to make it a successful community. MySpace quickly gained popularity among teenagers and young adults. In February 2005, DeWolfe held talks with Mark Zuckerberg over acquiring Facebook , but rejected Zuckerberg's offer to sell Facebook to him for $ 75 million. Some employees of MySpace, including DeWolfe and Berman, were able to purchase equity in

14884-425: Was using their ideas to build a competing product. The three complained to The Harvard Crimson , and the newspaper began an investigation in response. While Zuckerberg tried to convince the editors not to run the story, he also broke into two of the editors' email accounts—for which he made use of their private login data logs from TheFacebook. Following the official launch of the Facebook social media platform,

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