eUniverse

Their email marketing division of a Los Angeles company called eUniverse, which later renamed itself Intermix, was floundering, so they imitated a popular site at the time, Friendster.

Founders Step Aside at MySpace 2009

The two were employees of an unwieldy and disorganized Net conglomerate called eUniverse, which secretly installed spyware on users’ PCs and sold expensive and questionably advertised merchandise.

The Facebook Effect David Kirkpatrick 2010

He followed drkoop. com with a stint as CEO of eUniverse. com, later known as Intermix, a troubled firm that was best known for games and e-mail.

Knowledge is the power behind popular eHow website 2009

Among her revelations: The pair ran a shady operation called eUniverse, which sold wrinkle cream and ink-jet cartridges over the Internet; they lifted most of MySpace's features from another social-networking service, Friendster, but skirted privacy issues; and the roots of MySpace, which now reaches an estimated 133 million active users worldwide, are in spam and porn.

New book offers inside look at MySpace 2009

The bad news: Then-New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer began investigating claims that eUniverse was bundling spyware and adware with its games and screen savers.

Knowledge is the power behind popular eHow website 2009

They spammed the eUniverse list like crazy to seed the MySpace database.

Viral Marketing, Why Sites Get Huge. « The Paradigm Shift 2006

Be you and do what you need- thank you for what you have given, and I hope we'll meet again in the eUniverse again someday

Caption contest 2007

A company named eUniverse (now called Intermix) bought ResponseBase in 2002, and DeWolfe and Anderson persuaded then C.E.O. Brad Greenspan to let them create MySpace the following September.

Will Success Spoil MySpace.com? 2006

Brad was in fact the CEO and founder of eUniverse, so my bad on that.

MySpace Cofounder Tom Anderson Was A Real Life “WarGames” Hacker in 1980s Michael Arrington 2005

“(And, to make it clear, Intermix did not even fully own MySpace – MySpace had other investors.)” according to the contract between Richard Rosenblatt and Chris DeWolfe, yes they did own 100% of the outstanding shares. eUniverse owned a good portion of those as they only sold 1/3 to MySpace LLC which was run by DeWolfe, who also ran Responsebase LLC, which was accused of the spamming with the XDrive email addresses

MySpace Cofounder Tom Anderson Was A Real Life “WarGames” Hacker in 1980s Michael Arrington 2005