Space is the place

My MySpace page is now all gussied up, just for you.

UPDATE: Oh, bleargh. Now I feel all icky.

To expand ad sales, especially to big brands, Mr. Levinsohn plans to supplement the MySpace staff with a second sales force linked to the Fox TV sales department. He wants to expand one of Mr. DeWolfe's advertising ideas — turning advertisers into members of the MySpace community, with their own profiles, like the teenagers' — so that the young people who often spend hours each day on MySpace can become "friends" with movies, cellphone companies and even deodorants. Young people can link to the profiles set up for these goods and services, as they would to real friends, and these commercial "friends" can even send them messages — ads, really, but of a whole new kind.

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And, for now, Mr. DeWolfe and Mr. Anderson say they are happy working for the News Corporation and Mr. Murdoch, its 75-year-old chairman and chief executive. "Rupert Murdoch blew me away," Mr. DeWolfe said. "He really understands what youth is doing today."

Remember: Tom is not your friend.

UPDATE 2: What'd I say?

Comments

[mwanji]

1.

Are you kidding? Who *doesn't* want to be friends with a deodorant?

[squashed]

2.

I love mister deodorant. woo hooo...

Will you be myspace pal mister deodorant?

[mwanji]

3.

Well, 100,000 people made friends with an animated hamburger. And 100,000 MySpace/Burger fans can't be wrong!