Richard Rosenblatt shouldn't have much to complain about. The former MySpace CEO made a hefty fortune selling a few startups during the dotcom boom before co-founding Demand Media. But the tech titan still thinks Silicon Valley has punished him for living in Los Angeles.
Why are the vaguely-techie stories that show up on TMZ never as juicy as you hoped? The Hollywood blog reports that Joe Jonas—you know, the one with the good hair, who got corrupted by Miley Cyrus—took "random passengers" to Pinkberry this week in his new role as an UberX driver.
First as tragedy, then as farce: a tipster close to the company tells us the undead social network canned "massive number of people from their LA office today. Entire departments." A "New MySpace" rep hasn't confirmed the number, but the firings are real.
From deep within the Smithsonian's Fossilized Social Networks Wing, MySpace shouts to the world: We're here, and we have at least $20,000,000 to spend on this TV commercial. Look, Riff Raff and Pharrell are there, too.