MySpace: Facts

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singer Lissie was invited to open for Lenny Kravitz after he saw her MySpace page?
the band Fleet Foxes received over a quarter of a million MySpace plays in two months despite having never released any of their work?
one of the members of R&B girl group RichGirl was discovered through MySpace?
in the days immediately following the revelation of her role in the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, the MySpace page of Ashley Alexandra Dupré was viewed over 9 million times?
Fireflight's song "Unbreakable" was inspired by a fan's question asked on MySpace?
Gus Van Sant casted Paranoid Park via MySpace?
Australian rock band Small Mercies first encountered their producer, Matt Wallace, when he left a message on their MySpace?

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computer security expert Dan Kaminsky demonstrated a security vulnerability by setting up Rickrolls on Facebook and PayPal?
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz studied economics at Harvard University for two years before moving to Palo Alto, California to work on Facebook full-time?
Facebook polls asking whether Barack Obama should be assassinated have been investigated by the government as possible felonious threats against the President of the United States?
a recent outbreak of "hat mania" surrounding RTÉ reporter Paul Cunningham's "woolly pancake" from "Pakistan's tribal areas" has led to a Facebook campaign for fans to gather in their own hats?
in the South Park episode "You Have 0 Friends", Stan Marsh gets literally sucked into the social-networking site Facebook, which resembles the virtual world in the science-fiction film Tron?
the classical "boy band" Blake formed via the social networking website Facebook and replaced a member by using Twitter?
the presidential campaign of Bob Barr began following a successful draft effort on Facebook?
the largest social graph, which represents the relationships between online users, is owned by Facebook, the world's largest social networking service?
voting for the mascot of the 2010 World Lacrosse Championship was done through the tournament's page on Facebook?

the 1996 season of the Super 12 was the first season of professional rugby union in the southern hemisphere following a US$550,000,000 deal between SANZAR and News Corporation?

Google and Universal Music Group have announced Vevo, a YouTube-based, joint venture, music video-hosting website?
Google purchased in-game advertising company Adscape for US$23 million, only five years after the company was founded?
Don Dodge, a former start-up evangelist for Microsoft, switched from using a Windows-based computer to a Mac-based one after he moved to Google?
Gail Trimble, captain of the team which won BBC TV's University Challenge before being disqualified, has been called the "human Google" and the "Usain Bolt of general knowledge"?
Google Chrome, a new web browser developed by Google, was launched with a comic by Scott McCloud?
Mahalo.com is a human-powered search engine whose lead investor Sequoia Capital helped start both Yahoo! and Google?
the Oscar Award-nominated film The Final Inch, a documentary about efforts to eradicate the poliovirus, is the first film project from Google's philanthropic division Google.org?
the Google Guys, composed of Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, are among the richest people in the world with a net worth of US$17.5 billion each?

Internet entrepreneur Pete Ashdown is running against incumbent Orrin Hatch for the 2006 U.S. Senate race in Utah?
Stephen Fry asked on Twitter for suggestions to name a BBC television series on the impact of the Internet, now called The Virtual Revolution?
Agora was a proof of concept email-based web browser designed for non-graphic terminals and people without full access to the internet?
Egg plc is now the world's largest "pure" internet bank, meaning it's only accessible from the internet?
F.I.B.S is the earliest backgammon server on the internet and has been actively operating since July 19, 1992?
Michael Homer created Netscape's business plan and developed marketing campaigns for its web browser at a time when few had heard of the Internet?
Susan Hadden, an Internet affairs advisor to Al Gore, was killed by bandits while visiting Angkor Wat?
giant vegetables are entered in competitions around the world, with seeds being traded over the Internet?
Vishvakannada.com was the first Internet magazine in Kannada and also the first website in an Indian language to use dynamic fonts?
according to sociology professor Lorne L. Dawson, Internet sites like YouTube have in recent years been used to spread religious hate propaganda?