“Someone like eBay” to partner with MySpace?

by Sue Bailey

This post was written in June 2007; specific information contained within it may be out of date.

MySpace founder Chris de Wolfe has talked about a partnership with “someone like eBay” for the social networking site. In an interview with The Telegraph, he talked about offering MySpace users the ability to sell goods, and how a commerce partner would be needed to facilitate the sales: “We haven’t decided yet but it would be probably a good bet that someone like eBay could be a good partner.” However, it’s likely to be several months before such a service is implemented.

De Wolfe sold MySpace to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation in 2005, for US$580m.

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Author: Sue Bailey
Posted at: Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
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Comments

3 Responses to ““Someone like eBay” to partner with MySpace?”

  1. Dan on June 21st, 2007 9:43 am

    Some random thoughts:

    MySpace is ‘valued’ at $12bn in the negotiations with Yahoo: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007.....2-billion/

    Myspace is still growing. Facebook may be more talked but Myspace isn’t dead: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007.....aggerated/

    Could be great source of traffic in a post-google ads world.

    Photobucket… biggest third party host of images on eBay was bought, as reported by Tamebay, by Myspace recently.

  2. Dan on June 21st, 2007 10:05 am

    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/5facbf.....10621.html

    More gossip, and it really is tittle-tattle, on Yahoo/Myspace.

  3. Sue Bailey on June 21st, 2007 1:17 pm

    Re. the FT link, I don’t think you need to see anything significant in people’s desire to avoid a James Blunt gig :-D

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