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Nicholas Carlson and Kamelia Angelova|Oct. 12, 2009, 4:30 PM | 3,092 |12
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CBS Sports allows online viewers to sign into its live chat for SEC college football games using their log-ins from Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter or MySpace.

Gigya, which helps CBS, provided us with a breakdown of how much each service is used.

No surprise: most chat participants opting to use a third-party authentication service go for the popular Facebook Connect. More of a surprise: signing in with a Yahoo account is the second most popular choice.

That’s great news for Yahoo’s plans to be the center of its users’ Internet experience.

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So who hasn’t heard of MySpace? If you haven’t, you must be from another planet. MySpace, along with Facebook, pretty much cover the planet in users. Both have exponential growth with hundreds of thousands of new users every day.

So what happens when some of the top executives jump ship (Space-ship?) to form their own new company? This leaves MySpace scrambling to replace them and the three execs who departed being ecstatic at the thought of forming their own company and embarking on a new venture.

Where else have people jumped ship and founded incredible companies?

Ross Perot left IBM to start Electronic Data Systems (EDS).

Bill Gates left Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems (MITS) after a very short amount of time along with his friend Paul Allen and started Micro-soft (as it was originally called). Microsoft is, well, let’s just say if you haven’t heard of Microsoft, you have not been listening to the news or paying attention to how your computer can do all those neat things.

The new company, whatever it will be called, is founded by Amit Kapur (MySpace COO), Steve Pearman (MySpace SVP Product Strategy) and Jim Benedetto (MySpace VP Technology). The company is now backed by August Capital and Redpoint Ventures, who jointly funded a roughly $10 million venture round. David Hornik from August and Geoff Yang from Redpoint have joined the board of directors.

The company is supposedly targeting the message board/Internet forum space with technology that aggregates content and serves advertising against it. Real time search (bingo! fundable!) may be part of the business plan as well.

These three gentleman are a force to watch in the future. No doubt if they were around to help grow MySpace to become the monster which it has become, their new company will most likely take on the same staggering growth as MySpace, EDS and Microsoft have enjoyed.

Good luck Amit, Steve and Jim!

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