H E C T O R L I M A . C O M :: Moguls of New Media :: July :: 2006

31 - July - 2006

Moguls of New Media


The MySpace member with a million ‘friends.’ The receptionist with a production deal. Some of the Web’s amateur entertainers are becoming powerful players.
By JOHN JURGENSEN
July 29, 2006; Page P1

On the popular Web site MySpace.com, members set up profiles with information about their interests and then network across the site, recruiting other members to link to their pages. Often, the teens and 20-somethings who dominate the site have dozens or hundreds of these registered “friends.”

Then there’s Christine Dolce, whose MySpace page boasts nearly one million friends — making her arguably one of the most connected people on the Internet. A 24-year-old cosmetologist who until a few months ago worked at a makeup counter in a mall, she now has a manager and a start-up jeans company and has won promotional deals for two mainstream consumer brands.

the new IT list.



Comments »

The URI to TrackBack this entry is: http://digitador.blogsome.com/2006/07/31/moguls-of-new-media/trackback/

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Leave a comment

Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>



Anti-spam measure: please retype the above text into the box provided.


publicidade:



Saiba onde tem o melhor preço antes de comprar