Is There a Myspace Mafia Too--Because Leaving It Seems to Have Paid Off for Many Ex-Execs

When the selling of Myspace winds down in the next week or so, it'll probably attract a spate of comments about what a failure the whole social networking enterprise turned out to be.

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