For years troops stationed all over the world have utilised MySpace as a lifeline to communicate with their loved ones back home.
But for those who really want to make the world a better place, can we start looking at Bill Gates's path instead of Steve Jobs? I like my iPad, but Gates is one of the greatest heroes of our time. For me, that has nothing to do with Microsoft and everything to do with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
I had looked at dating sites and niche communities like BlackPlanet, AsianAvenue, and MiGente, as well as Friendster, and I thought, 'They're thinking way too small.'
Anything you do on the Internet, I want you to be able to do on MySpace. That's the goal and ambition.
People aren't interested in music on Facebook in the way they are on MySpace, that's one of the big keys here.
Creative freedom and self-expression is what MySpace is all about.
The very first plan I wrote for MySpace was that it would be a portal, but a portal wrapped around your user profile.
I saw how hard it was for even really talented bands to reach an audience.
We've tried to simplify the site because some people found it too difficult to use and were intimidated by it.
Making a website is similar to making a movie-hundreds of people work on it, one person makes the final decision, and they make them every minute of the day.
It sounds crazy, but even in the first plan that I wrote up, I mentioned AOL, Yahoo and hotmail, knowing we would be big. And its crazy to think that it happened.
When I left the work world, I started designing my dream house. I dived into architecture and bought seven vacant lots. My plan was to build one house, move in, and build the next. If the next was better, I'd move in and sell the previous one - so on and so forth.
Burning Man is like one big giant art installation in the middle of starkly beautiful desert landscape, and the attendees are creative in the way they dress.
The Impact Channel and OurPlanet were created to increase awareness of environmental and social causes within the MySpace community.
The first people in a company are the most important. They will hire people like themselves and create a culture that either works or eats away at the chance for success.
On Friendster, if you were a band and you made a profile, they would delete it. They didn't want bands on their site.
I live in Hawaii part time and love shooting the ocean, both long exposures that capture the movement of water and with a fast shutter speed to freeze the power and force of a wave.
The less the camera is able to capture what you're seeing in a scene, the more editing it needs.
I've always kept a low profile and said no to 'Saturday Night Live' and stuff like that.
I don't know exactly where my life will lead. Adventure and the unknown has always been appealing to me.
