[staunch]

> ...what became the world’s top social network, only to see it lose its edge under News Corp.

I think it's fair to blame acquirers in many cases, but based on MySpace's history they may have done better under News Corp than they would have done independently.

[robryan]

I don't think the founders would be to concerned, they made there millions.

It wouldn't have done much better solo unless they had seriously changed there engineering and removed all the backwards compatability.