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Article: Looking at the bigger picture ; INTERVIEW ++ CHRIS DE WOLFE ++ MySpace is already the world's largest website. Now, with its expansion into television, it's gunning for YouTube. And, it might just help save the planet, too. The site's co-founder Chris DeWolfe tells Ian Burrell about the long- term revolution
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 2, 2007
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Four years into the MySpace revolution and one co-founder, Tom
Anderson, has amassed more than 180 million "friends" while his
partner, Chris DeWolfe, has barely 200. Which you might think
surprising for someone who has made a fortune, some [pound]150m,
from the concept of getting people to network and who, in so doing,
has built the largest website in the world in terms of page views,
some 60 billion a month.
But DeWolfe, sitting in MySpace's new European headquarters,
close to London's Tottenham Court Road, is not at all perturbed by
this relative unpopularity. It was right, he says, that Anderson's
face and not his or anybody else's, should be the one that appeared
on the pages of new ...