132-638: Lisa Helen Mitchell (born 22 March 1990) is an Australian musician and singer-songwriter who grew up in Albury, New South Wales . Mitchell currently lives in Melbourne and is working on her fourth studio album. Mitchell finished sixth in the 2006 season of Australian Idol . Her debut extended play, Said One to the Other (4 August 2007), topped iTunes in Australia and she signed with London-based publisher, Little Victories,
264-508: A cover band , Chrome, with "three of my best friends". At that time "We thought that The Donnas and Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs were the ultimate women of the world". Her varied inspirations include Bob Dylan , Cat Stevens and Neil Young , which her father favoured as she was growing up, as well as Patti Smith , Regina Spektor , Clare Bowditch , Joanna Newsom , and later, Lou Reed and Velvet Underground . Mitchell also formed
396-469: A 20- hectare (49- acre ) farm. She attended The Scots School Albury . She began guitar lessons at 12, and leaned towards the folk and rock genres. Mitchell later recalled her pivotal moment was seeing Missy Higgins perform " Scar " on the program Video Hits : "My sister called me out to watch it ... Missy was a really normal, cool chick making music as her own thing. I found that really inspiring". She performed in local cafes and events as well as with
528-713: A National Youth Week event in Parkes , supporting local country-folk, family band The Lees, which includes fellow Australian Idol Top 24 contestant, Raechel Lee . Mitchell's set of eight original tracks was followed by later joining The Lees on stage: together they performed her originals, "Alice" and "See It in Your Eyes", and a cover of Ben Harper 's "Diamonds on the Inside". During that year she supported tours by Old Man River , The Hampdens , Bob Evans , Ben Lee and Evermore . On 4 August she released her first extended play, Said One to
660-610: A certain amount of population movement resulted. However, the current urban population is approximately 92,200. According to the 2021 census of Population, there were 53,677 people in the Albury part of the Albury – Wodonga Urban Centre. Albury is situated above the river flats of the Murray River, in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range . At the city's airport, Albury is 164 metres (538 ft) above sea level. Albury has
792-421: A competitive threat to its new Myspace Videos service, the site in late 2005 banned embedded YouTube videos from user profiles, which was widely protested by Myspace users, prompting the site to lift the ban shortly after. There were a variety of environments in which users could access Myspace content on their mobile phones. In early 2006, mobile phone provider Helio released a series of mobile phones utilizing
924-459: A contestant on Australian Idol Season 4 , performing cover versions and two of her own compositions, which were "See It in Your Eyes" and "Too Far Gone". Mitchell had auditioned in Albury in April, aged 16, and moved through the selection process to the final six before being eliminated in mid-October. In June 2009 Mitchell reflected on her time on Australian Idol : "I was uncomfortable with elements of
1056-566: A day. A year later, it was registering 320,000 users a day, and had overtaken Yahoo! to become the most visited website in the United States. ComScore said that a key driver of the site's success in the US was high "engagement levels", with the average MySpace user viewing over 660 pages a month. In January 2006, Fox announced plans to launch a UK version of MySpace. During 2006, MySpace launched localized versions in 11 countries across Europe, Asia and
1188-605: A distribution outlet for Fox studio content and missed the US$ 1 billion mark in total revenues. This resulted in DeWolfe and Anderson gradually losing their status within Murdoch's inner circle of executives, as well as DeWolfe's mentor Peter Chernin , president and COO of News Corporation, departing the company in June 2009. Former AOL executive Jonathan Miller, who joined News Corporation in charge of
1320-495: A duo with another Albury-based friend, Katherine Green, which was "More along the lines of what I do on my own now, only a lot folkier. We sang [...] colonial folk tunes actually. Quite traditional and harmony based. We had brilliant fun playing in the chalkboard tents at the folk festivals in Australia". Mitchell was later based in Sydney, London and then Melbourne. From August to October 2006, Lisa Mitchell rose to national prominence as
1452-415: A federal executive until one could be formally elected. The city has a number of suburbs. Central Albury comprises the central business district (CBD) and lies between the railway line, the Murray River and Monument Hill. Much commercial activity is concentrated here, with Dean Street forming the axis of the main shopping and office district. A cultural precinct is centred on QEII Square, which includes
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#17331059033851584-629: A flood-peak in late spring due to snow-melt in the Murray and its tributaries' alpine headwaters. The flow is now effectively reversed, with low flows in winter and sustained, relatively high flows in late spring, summer and early autumn to meet irrigation demands, although the spring flood peak has been virtually eliminated. The water released from the base of the Hume Weir is unnaturally cold, at least 10 °C (18 °F) colder than it naturally should be. This flow reversal, temperature depression, and removal of
1716-427: A higher price for the website, and the purchase was seen as a good investment at the time. Within a year, MySpace had tripled in value from its purchase price. News Corporation saw the purchase as a way to capitalize on Internet advertising and drive traffic to other News Corporation properties. After the acquisition, MySpace continued its exponential growth. In January 2006, the site was signing up 200,000 new users
1848-413: A maximum above 35 °C (95 °F) occur in this summer period, with many cooler days. Mean mid winter maxima are 12 °C (54 °F) with many cloudy days, and is likewise the wettest season. Albury gets approximately 20 days per year featuring minima of below freezing, though the cloud cover tends to limit frost. Sleet may occur during the winter months, but settling snowfalls are very rare, with
1980-488: A mild, temperate climate , with cool, damp winters and warm to hot, mostly dry, summers. Under the Köppen climate classification , Albury has a humid subtropical climate ( Cfa ), but would have tendencies of a Mediterranean climate ( Csa ) as well. In high summer, the mean daily maximum temperature is 31 °C (88 °F) with low humidity; however, this is subject to substantial daily variation. An average of 17 days with
2112-548: A new redesign was announced, with no date given, making Myspace more visual and apparently optimized for tablets. The redesign was publicly released on January 15, 2013; by April 2013 (and presumably before), users were able to transfer to the new Myspace redesign. In June 2013, the redesign deleted all previous blogs, angering many users, and destroying information that would have been useful history in later years. VP, Business Development 2006–2009 VP Communications & Policy 2006–2007 Since early 2006, Myspace has offered
2244-425: A new site design on a limited scale, with plans to switch all interested users to the new site in late November. Chief executive Mike Jones said the site was no longer competing with Facebook as a general social networking site; instead, it would be music-oriented and would target younger people. Jones believed most younger users would continue to use the site after the redesign, though older users might not. The goal of
2376-453: A protectionist stance after gaining its constitution in 1856. Albury was at this time starting to grow substantially with German speaking immigrants using the area to grow grapes for wine. By the 1870s a butter factory was established, flour mill , wineries and locally brewed cider and soft drinks were available. The railway line from Sydney arrived at Albury in 1881 (see Transport-Rail below). A temporary wooden railway bridge joined
2508-529: A read-only mode of sorts, as no new articles have been published since early 2022, but media uploads seem to be working now. MySpace's official account has also sparked some new activity. However, most images on the site still seem to be broken, and existing songs also cannot be played. The terms of service of Myspace have not been changed by Viant. The privacy policy was last revised on 24 June 2024. From YouTube 's founding in 2005, Myspace users could embed YouTube videos in their profiles. Considering this
2640-402: A recommendation engine for new users that suggests games, music and videos based on their previous search habits. The security on Myspace was also enhanced, with the criticism of Facebook , to make it a safer site. The security of Myspace enables users to choose if the content could be viewed for "friends only", "18 and older" or "everyone". In October 2010, Myspace introduced a beta version of
2772-579: A service known as Myspace Mobile to access and edit one's profile and communicate with and view the profiles of other members. Additionally, UIEvolution and Myspace developed a mobile version of Myspace for a wider range of carriers, including AT&T , Vodafone and Rogers Wireless . In August 2006, Myspace began offering classified ads, a service which grew by 33 percent during the following year. It previously had an instant messaging tool called MySpace IM . Myspace used an implementation of Telligent Community for its forum system. Shortly after Myspace
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#17331059033852904-491: A small residential/farming community to the west, Ettamogah (home of the Ettamogah Pub ), Bowna and Table Top to the north, and Wirlinga and Lake Hume village to the east. Howlong (20 km west) and Jindera (16 km north) are the closest towns outside the Albury city area, and act as commuter dormitories as well as service centres for the local rural industries. Albury's houses and buildings are numbered using
3036-503: A space. The logo change was announced on October 8, 2010, and appeared on the site on November 11. In the same month, Myspace integrated with Facebook Connect – calling it "Mash Up with Facebook" in an announcement widely seen as the final act of acknowledging Facebook's domination of social networking. In January 2011, it was announced that the Myspace staff would be reduced by 47%. User adoption continued to decrease. In September 2012,
3168-556: A special system introduced in 1920. The centre of the city, which is defined as the intersection of Dean and Olive Streets, is numbered 500, and all other houses are numbered depending on whether they are north, south, east or west of the centre. Lake Hume is situated on the Murray River 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) upstream of Albury. The Hume Dam (colloquially termed the Weir locally) wall construction took 17 years, from 1919 to 1936. A hydro-electric power plant supplies 60 MW of power to
3300-541: A subsidiary of Sony/ATV . By 2008 Mitchell had relocated to the UK where she recorded her debut studio album, Wonder (31 July 2009), which peaked at No. 6 on the ARIA Albums Chart . She won the 2009 Australian Music Prize of $ 30,000 for the album. Mitchell returned to Australia to live in Melbourne. Her second album, Bless This Mess (12 October 2012) reached No. 7. In March 2015, Mitchell's last single "Wah Ha"
3432-446: A team of programmers and resources provided by eUniverse. It was during this early period in June 2003, just prior to the birth of MySpace, that Jeffrey Edell was brought on as chairman of parent company Intermix Media. The first MySpace users were eUniverse employees. The company held contests to see who could sign up the most users. eUniverse used its 20 million users and e-mail subscribers to breathe life into MySpace and move it to
3564-498: A way to get users back. However, this may have backfired, as users generally disliked tweaks and changes on Facebook. In March 2011, market research figures released by Comscore suggested that Myspace had lost 10 million users between January and February 2011, and had fallen from 95 million to 63 million unique users in the previous 12 months. Myspace registered its sharpest audience declines in February 2011, as traffic fell 44% from
3696-462: A year earlier to 37.7 million U.S. visitors. Advertisers were reported as unwilling to commit to long-term deals with the site. In late February 2011, News Corporation officially put the site up for sale for an estimated $ 50–200 million. Losses from the last quarter of 2010 were $ 156 million, over double the previous year, which dragged down the otherwise strong results of News Corporation. The deadline for bids, May 31, 2011, passed without any above
3828-587: Is 554 kilometres (344 mi) from the state capital Sydney and 326 kilometres (203 mi) from the Victorian capital Melbourne. Said to be named after a village in England, United Kingdom , Albury developed as a major transport link between New South Wales and Victoria and was proclaimed a city in 1946. The Wiradjuri (Wiradjuri northern dialect pronunciation [wiraːjd̪uːraj]) or Wirraayjuurray people (Wiradjuri southern dialect pronunciation [wiraːjɟuːraj]) people were
3960-574: Is Kevin Mack. Albury has a longstanding connection to conservative politics. Following the first convention in Canberra to form the Liberal Party of Australia , delegates, including Sir Robert Menzies , met for a second conference in Albury at Mate's Department Store between 14 and 16 December 1944. The delegates agreed on the structure of the party organisation, adopted a provisional constitution and appointed
4092-400: Is a mix of residential and industrial areas, with the floodplains south of the railway line and freeway still used for farming and grazing. Flood mitigation works in the 1990s have dramatically reduced the risk of flooding in this area. North Albury was covered by orchards and vineyards in the first half of the 20th century, and a swamp existed where James Fallon High School now stands. After
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4224-538: Is a more sheltered site than the reservoir, generally attaining greater maximum temperatures but also lower minima. Rainfall is lower across the board. Albury is the largest city in the Federal electorate of Farrer , whose current representative is Sussan Ley of the Liberal Party . The previous Federal MP was Tim Fischer , who was leader of the National Party and Deputy Prime Minister of Australia . In State politics,
4356-533: Is by private car, however traffic is generally moderate. The opening of the Hume Freeway bypass on 4 March 2007, has greatly eased previous traffic congestion on the Lincoln Causeway, allowing vastly better flow between Albury and Wodonga. MySpace Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace ; also myspace ; and sometimes my␣ , with an elongated open box symbol ) is a social networking service based in
4488-592: Is no Albury in Kent. More plausible is Albury in adjacent Surrey, straddling the Tillingbourne river and a significant 18th century site of mills and industry. By 1847 the Albury settlement included two public houses and a handful of huts, a police barracks and a blacksmiths. A log punt established in 1844 serviced the crossing of the Murray River . Albury Post Office opened on 1 April 1843, closed in 1845, then reopened in
4620-690: Is now known as the Murray River at Albury, on 16 November 1824. They named the river the Hume River , after Hume's father, and the next day inscribed a tree by the river bank before continuing their journey south to Westernport in Victoria. In 1830, explorer Captain Charles Sturt discovered the Hume River downstream at its junction with the Murrumbidgee River . Not realising it was the same river, he named it
4752-593: Is now the Riverina Highway, then turned north through Thurgoona via today’s Table Top Rd then Old Sydney Road, then crossed Bowna Creek to follow Plunkett Rd to Bowna. The deviation, opened in 1933, follows the first 9 km of the Wagga Road, then crossed the railway and ran to Bells Road before turning east then southeast to Bowna. Most of this route, although now duplicated, remains as part of the Hume Highway, other than
4884-609: Is purely a matter of taste, the songs are very very well written". While The Age ' s Andrew Murfett noted it was "a sparkling debut album" and Mitchell told him "I'm happy where I am at the moment ... It's ticking along quite nicely. I like working hard. And it's good to see the results". It was accredited a platinum record for shipment of 70,000 copies by ARIA at the end of 2010. Despite working in London with "the creme de la creme of what you would want to record with. I mean, we had Ed Harcourt playing keys on everything!", most of
5016-412: Is quite different to girls." Warriors was released on 16 October 2016 and officially in the UK in April 2017. In September 2017 Mitchell released her 4th EP, featuring '90s covers, titled When They Play That Song . On 31 July 2020, Mitchell released a cover of Gillian Welch 's "Everything is Free". On 29 September 2021, Lisa Mitchell release a new song "Zombie". In an Instagram post, Lisa confirmed
5148-511: Is the largest suburb of Albury, and the only suburb which has its own postcode (2641, as opposed to 2640 for the balance of Albury). The suburb was originally named Black Range in the 1850s and 1860s, before being renamed Lavington in 1910. Originally within the boundaries of Hume Shire, it was absorbed into the City of Albury Local Government Area in the 1950s. Housing and commercial development has continued from that point until this day. Prior to 2007,
5280-516: Is the story of a road less travelled. In fact, it wouldn't be overstating things to say it counts among the music industry's more unlikely career paths. For a naive teen with a sweet voice, a guitar and vague acoustic-folk aspirations, such an anointment could have been the kiss of death." Starting in March 2007 Mitchell performed live from her home on her MySpace page, with her first online gig reaching 10,000 viewers. On 13 April that year, she performed at
5412-718: The ARIA Australian Artists Singles Chart and No. 66 on the ARIA Singles Chart. Mitchell's second album, Bless This Mess , was released on 12 October 2012, which reached No. 7 on the ARIA Albums Chart. It was recorded at The Stables Recording Studio and produced and mixed by Hume. Following its appearance, she toured nationally, supported by Alpine, and Danco (alias for Hume). Rob McNicol of Scene Magazine noted that Mitchell "exposed her philosophical and spiritual side when she began explaining
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5544-598: The Albury Library Museum , Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA), Albury Entertainment Centre and Convention Centre, and the Murray Conservatorium. In the same block are the Post Office, Police Station and Courthouse, and St Matthew's Anglican Church (which was rebuilt after being destroyed by fire in 1990). The Albury City Council offices are located on Kiewa Street. Forrest Hill lies directly north west and covers
5676-583: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation 's youth-focused radio station Triple J . They commenced in 2005. Albury, New South Wales Albury ( / ˈ ɔː l b ər i / ; Wiradjuri : Bungambrawatha ) is a major regional city that is located in the Murray region of New South Wales , Australia. It is part of the twin city of Albury-Wodonga and is located on the Hume Highway and
5808-790: The Electoral district of Albury is currently represented by Justin Clancy , also of the Liberal Party. The member for Albury between 1932 and 1946, Alexander Mair , was the Premier of New South Wales from 1939 to 1941. Local government is the responsibility of the Albury City Council , whose area of responsibility has gradually been enlarged to cover new housing estates on the city's fringes. Amanda Duncan-Strelec became Albury's first female Mayor in 1995, serving for one year. The current mayor of Albury
5940-493: The German Singles Chart . In April to May 2010 Mitchell went on her Oh! Hark! National Theatre Tour, where she was supported by Sydney-based country blues duo, Georgia Fair , and indie rock group, Boy & Bear . Her tour included over 18,000 fans in attendance. On 31 May that year "Neopolitan Dreams" was featured on Showtime 's The United States of Tara , Season 2 Episode 11 "To Have and to Hold". "Clean White Love"
6072-511: The Glastonbury Festival 2009 , which also included fellow Australian artists, The Temper Trap . In July 2009 Mitchell released her debut album, Wonder , which peaked at No. 6 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Promotion for the album included various tours in Australia and a European tour. Ben Vernel of theDwarf.com.au felt the album was "not a bad debut. It's a little bit obnoxious and a little bit cutesy in parts ... Aside from that, which
6204-470: The Hume Highway – passed north-east through the suburb, with Urana Road passing north-west through the suburb from the "Five Ways" road junction. In 2007, an internal bypass of the Hume Freeway was opened, with the former name of the Hume Highway section officially reverting to the commonly used "Wagga Road". The suburb of Lavington also includes the localities of Springdale Heights, Hamilton Valley and Norris Park. Albury's lawn cemetery and crematorium lies at
6336-523: The "MySpace Dragon Hoard". Since early 2022, music upload and playback have been disabled on the website. On May 16, 2007, Myspace partnered with news publications National Geographic, the New York Times and Reuters to provide professional visual contents on its social-networking Web site. On June 27, 2007, Myspace launched MySpaceTV. On August 8, 2007, Myspace partnered with satire publication The Onion to provide audio, video and print content to
6468-416: The "Uiver" was guided in to land safely. The makeshift runway at the racecourse was illuminated by the headlights of cars belonging to local residents who had responded to a special news bulletin on ABC radio station 2CO. After refuelling the next day, many local volunteers helped pull the stranded aircraft out of the mud and the aircraft was able to take off and continue to Melbourne where it won first prize in
6600-539: The $ 900 million three-year advertisement deal with Google, while being a short-term cash windfall, was a handicap in the long run, as it required MySpace to place even more ads on its already heavily advertised space, which made the site slow, more difficult to use and less flexible. MySpace could not experiment with its own site without forfeiting revenue, while Facebook was rolling out a new, clean site design. MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe reported that he had to push back against Fox Interactive Media's sales team, who monetized
6732-730: The 2009 Yellow Creek deviation. The other minor highways which connect to Albury are the Riverina Highway , which runs west through Berrigan to Deniliquin and east to Lake Hume ; and the Olympic Highway which diverges north from the Hume 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) north of Albury, and runs across the South Western Slopes via Wagga Wagga , Cootamundra and Young to terminate at the Mid-Western Highway at Cowra . In 1888,
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#17331059033856864-578: The Americas, including MySpace China with Solstice. At the time, Travis Katz , senior vice-president for international operations, reported that 30 million of the site's 90 million users were coming from outside of the United States. The 100 millionth MySpace account was created on August 9, 2006, in the Netherlands. That same month, MySpace signed a landmark advertising deal with Google that guaranteed MySpace $ 900 million over three years, over 55% more than
6996-510: The February 2009 Black Saturday bushfires , a number of benefit concerts were organised; Lisa Mitchell performed an unaccompanied set, supporting Tex Perkins , at the Ding Dong Lounge in Melbourne. TheDwarf.com.au reviewer, Matt Stewart, noted that "Her voice shines". In April that year she opened for Jason Mraz in Melbourne. In the following month she toured again, with Andy Bull and Vanessa Jade supporting. In June Mitchell performed at
7128-459: The February low of 42.1 mm (1.66 in). Albury has quite a high evaporation rate in summer, giving the environment a relatively arid appearance. The city enjoys a high amount of sunshine, getting around 108 days of clear skies annually (with the majority in summer and early autumn). The sunniest month is January, with 14.6 clear days (and 7.7 cloudy days), and the cloudiest month is July, with 17.5 cloudy days (and 3.9 clear days). The airport
7260-509: The Google deal. The remaining 50% came from display advertising sold by MySpace's in-house sales team. In November 2006, Myspace announced a 50-50 joint venture with Softbank to launch the site in Japan. In mid-2007, MySpace was the largest social-networking site in every European country where it had created a local presence. By July 2007, Nielsen//NetRatings reported the company's "active reach", or
7392-491: The Murray River. Both names persisted for some time, Hume falling into disuse eventually in favour of Murray. The Aboriginal name for the river was Millewa . A crossing place for the Murray became popular close to where Hovell inscribed the tree. In summer it was usually possible to cross the river by foot. Among the first squatters to follow in the steps of the explorers and settle in the district were William Wyse and Charles Ebden . The first European buildings erected at
7524-518: The Other , via iTunes and physically one week later. Its four tracks were produced by Evermore's Dann Hume and debuted on the ARIA Singles Chart at No. 27. It was released independently through Scorpio, and Warner Music . It peaked at No. 1 on the iTunes 'Top Albums' chart. Tange of TheDwarf.com.au website felt it was "sweet, and cute, and delicate, and nice – but not truly beautiful, powerful or developed". "Incomplete Lullaby", which
7656-514: The Seat of Government of the Commonwealth report of 1903 recommended Albury (along with Tumut ) as the preferred candidate for the national capital , though the proposal met staunch opposition from residents. At a public meeting, just one member of parliament voted in favour of Albury – Isaac Isaacs , member for Indi . The lack of support for other places ultimately led to the selection of Canberra as
7788-563: The Smollett Street wrought iron arch bridge was constructed over Bungambrawatha Creek. Smollet Street was extended westward through the botanical gardens to give direct access from Albury railway station to Howlong Road by a straight street. The bridge is near the botanic gardens and the local swimming pool. The bridge is a rare example of a metal arch bridge in New South Wales, and is the oldest of only two such bridges in New South Wales,
7920-415: The United States. Launched on August 1, 2003, it was the first social network to reach a global audience and had a significant influence on technology, pop culture and music. It also played a critical role in the early growth of companies like YouTube and created a developer platform that launched companies such as Zynga , RockYou , and Photobucket , among others, to success. From 2005 to 2009, Myspace
8052-551: The World War II, housing development in the area increased and Waugh Road was extended from David Street to the "Five Ways" intersection at Union Road, which ascribes the border between North Albury and Lavington . The locality of Glenroy is adjacent to North Albury, west of the Bungambrawartha Creek, and housing was developed here in the 1970s, including a significant Housing Commission public housing estate. Lavington
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#17331059033858184-572: The album tracks were produced by Hume at The Stables Recording Studio in country Victoria. The album provided three singles: "Coin Laundry" (August 2009), which peaked at No. 28 on the ARIA Singles Chart, while "Clean White Love" (November) did not chart and " Oh! Hark! " (April 2010) reached the Top ;100. In August "Coin Laundry" was featured in a Bell Canada ad for the Palm Pre . "Neopolitan Dreams"
8316-466: The broad gauge and reloaded onto a standard gauge railway wagon on the opposite side of the platform. In his book Tramps Abroad , writer Mark Twain in 1895 wrote of the break of gauge at Albury and changing trains: ""Now comes a singular thing, the oddest thing, the strangest thing, the most unaccountable marvel that Australia can show. At the frontier between NSW and Victoria our multitude of passengers were routed out of their snug beds by lantern light in
8448-701: The broad gauge track to a second standard gauge track, between Seymour and Albury, was substantially completed in 2011. The railway station and its associated yards are listed on both the Australian National Heritage List and the New South Wales State Heritage Register . Albury Airport , owned and operated by the City of Albury , is the second busiest regional airport in New South Wales with around 280,000 passenger movements per year. The airport, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) east of
8580-471: The city centre, has scheduled daily flights to Sydney , Melbourne and Brisbane through commercial carriers. The road leading from Albury Airport to the city was renamed Borella Road in 1979, in honour of Victoria Cross recipient Albert Chalmers Borella , who was buried at Albury. Local public transport is provided exclusively by private bus operators, Martin's Albury and Dysons who run day time bus services. The overwhelming majority of local transport
8712-716: The climb up—and signal to flee when it's time to get out." The volatility of social networks was exemplified in 2006, when Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal launched an investigation into children's exposure to pornography on MySpace. The resulting media frenzy and the site's lack of an effective spam filter gave the site a reputation as a "vortex of perversion". Around that time, specialized social media companies such as Twitter formed and began targeting users on MySpace, while Facebook rolled out communication tools that were seen as safe in comparison to MySpace. In addition, MySpace had particular problems with vandalism, phishing, malware, and spam, which it failed to curtail, making
8844-574: The company for approximately $ 35 million. On February 11, 2016, it was announced that Myspace and its parent company had been purchased by Time Inc. for $ 87 million. On January 31, 2018, Time Inc. was in turn purchased by Meredith Corporation , and later that year, on November 4, 2019, Meredith spun off Myspace and its original holding company (Viant Technology Holding Inc.) and sold it to Viant Technology LLC. In August 2003, several eUniverse employees with Friendster accounts saw potential in its social networking features. The group decided to mimic
8976-442: The country". Lisa Mitchell released a single, "Spiritus", on 27 March 2012 and undertook a national tour of church venues, Heavenly Sounds, in June with Georgia Fair supporting her. A music video for "Spiritus" featured Georgia Fair's Wilson as her "love interest" and the single peaked at number 91. In May, Mitchell released an EP titled Spiritus , which featured "Spiritus" and four other new tracks. The EP charted at No. 17 on
9108-420: The crossing place were a provisions store and some small huts. A survey for a town was commissioned in 1838 by Assistant Surveyor Thomas Townsend who mapped out Wodonga Place (the present Wodonga Place) as the western boundary, Hume Street as the northern boundary, Kiewa Street to the east and Nurigong Street to the south, with Townsend Street being the only other north–south road, and Ebden and Hovell Streets being
9240-545: The departure of key personnel (Myspace's COO, SVP of engineering, and SVP of strategy) to form a startup. Furthermore, the opening of extravagant new offices around the world was questioned, as Facebook did not have similarly expensive expansion plans but still attracted international users at a rapid rate. The changes to MySpace's executive ranks were followed in June 2009 by a layoff of 37.5% of its workforce (including 30% of its U.S. employees), reducing employees from 1,600 to 1,000. In 2009, MySpace implemented site redesigns as
9372-399: The difference in gauges and speed up traffic, a bogie exchange device lifted freight wagons and carriages allowing workers to refit rolling stock with different gauged wheel-sets. The break of railway gauge at Albury was a major impediment to Australia's war effort and infrastructure during both World Wars, as every soldier, every item of equipment, and all supplies had to be off-loaded from
9504-421: The digital media business, was in the job for three weeks when he shuffled MySpace's executive team in April 2009. MySpace president Tom Anderson stepped down while Chris DeWolfe was replaced as CEO by former Facebook COO Owen Van Natta . A meeting at News Corporation over the direction of MySpace in March 2009 was reportedly the catalyst for that management shakeup, with the Google search deal about to expire and
9636-456: The emergence of Facebook did little to diminish MySpace's popularity; at the time, Facebook was targeted only at college students. At its peak, when News Corporation attempted to merge it with Yahoo! in 2007, Myspace was valued at $ 12 billion and had more than 300 million registered users. On April 19, 2008, Facebook overtook MySpace in Alexa rankings. In May 2009, Facebook surpassed MySpace in
9768-421: The first 10 characters of the password converted to lowercase and stored without a cryptographic salt ). The exact data breach date is unknown, but analysis of the data suggests it was exposed around eight years before being made public, around mid-2008 to early 2009. In March 2019, Myspace lost all content before 2016 after a faulty server migration. As of October 5, 2024, Myspace has still been placed in
9900-598: The first National School opened on the corner of Dean and Kiewa Streets, with 73 students enrolled. In 1862 a new school was built in Olive Street on land which is now part of Albury Public School. The city's first mayor, James Fallon, was an innovator of the Public School , funding a demonstration High School to be built on Kiewa Streets. Albury High School opened in Kiewa Street in 1927. The Royal Commission on Sites for
10032-684: The first known humans to occupy the area, and are a group of Indigenous Australian Aboriginal people that were united by a common language, strong ties of kinship and survived as skilled hunter–fisher–gatherers in family groups or clans scattered throughout central New South Wales. In the 21st century, major Wiradjuri groups live in Condobolin , Peak Hill , Narrandera and Griffith . There are significant populations at Wagga Wagga and Leeton and smaller groups at West Wyalong, Parkes, Dubbo, Forbes, Cootamundra, Cowra and Young. The explorers Hume and Hovell arrived at what their maps called 'Crossing Point', but
10164-464: The flat land directly north of it is covered by parkland, housing and light industry, and a retail park including Harvey Norman and Spotlight franchises, as well as the city airport . The Mungabareena Reserve lies on the Murray south of the airport, and is considered an Aboriginal cultural site of some significance. Mungabareena means "place of plenty talk" in the Wiradjuri language. South Albury
10296-419: The head of the pack of social networking websites. A key architect was tech expert Toan Nguyen, who helped stabilize the platform when Greenspan asked him to join the team. Co-founder and CTO Aber Whitcomb played an integral role in software architecture, utilizing the then-superior development speed of ColdFusion over other dynamic database driven server-side languages of the time. Despite having over ten times
10428-710: The it was not used. Her second EP, Welcome to the Afternoon , was released on 31 May that year; followed by two singles, " Neopolitan Dreams " (as a digital single) and "See You When You Get Here". "Neopolitan Dreams" received considerable airplay on Australian radio stations Triple J , FBi 94.5 and Nova 96.9 . It was listed at No. 91 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2008 . In April 2008 Mitchell moved to London to continue writing for her debut album, collaborating with Ant Whiting , Ed Harcourt and Sacha Skarbek . The "Neopolitan Dreams" official video made its debut on 5 September and
10560-529: The last significant snowfall in July 1966. The highest temperature recorded at Albury was 46.1 °C on 4 January 2020, and the lowest temperature was −4.0 °C recorded on 8 August 1994 (both at the Airport AWS station). Albury's mean annual rainfall is 699.1 millimetres (27.52 in). Rainfall peaks distinctly in the winter months with a high mean of 75.9 mm (2.99 in) in July and August, comparing with
10692-510: The line to the Victorian network in 1883. New South Wales and Victoria had different track gauges until 1962, when the first train ran direct from Sydney to Melbourne. The two states could not initially agree which should be the transfer point so they had an expensive and attractive iron lattice bridge sent from Scotland which accommodated both gauges. There was a school operating at Albury in 1848, catering for 13 private students. The following year
10824-554: The longest in Australia. The broad gauge section of track between Seymour and Albury has now been converted to standard gauge; there is no longer a break-of-gauge at Albury station. The station is served by a three daily V/Line train services from Melbourne (terminating at Albury) and the NSW TrainLink Melbourne-Sydney XPT service, which runs twice daily in each direction. In 1873, the 5-foot-3-inch (1.60 m) broad gauge railway line from Melbourne reached
10956-459: The meaning of the album. She discussed a bunch of real world issues – division of society, the negative impact of money, and the lack of wisdom being passed through the generations – all the while keeping an optimistic outlook on life". While Victoria Birch of FasterLouder found "There's tension between the security of Mitchell's off-kilter folk beginnings and a desire to buck against the pigeonhole's gravitational pull. She's not yet willing to jettison
11088-483: The more popular features of the website. Within 10 days, the first version of MySpace was ready for launch, implemented using ColdFusion . A complete infrastructure of finance, human resources, technical expertise, bandwidth , and server capacity was available for the site. The project was overseen by Brad Greenspan (eUniverse's founder, chairman and CEO), who managed Chris DeWolfe (MySpace's starting CEO), Josh Berman, Tom Anderson (MySpace's starting president), and
11220-411: The morning in the biting cold to change cars. Think of the paralysis of intellect that gave that idea birth, imagine the boulder it emerged from, on some petrified legislator's shoulders." During World War II military armouries and warehouses were established in the vicinity of Albury at Bonegilla, Wirlinga and Bandiana. Similar stores were also established at Tocumwal and Oaklands . The conversion of
11352-484: The northern side of the Murray River . Albury is the seat of local government for the council area which also bears the city's name – the City of Albury . It is on the Victoria–New South Wales border. Albury has an urban population of 53,677 and is separated from its twin city in Victoria, Wodonga , by the Murray River. Together, the two cities form an urban area with a population of 97,793 in 2021. It
11484-457: The number of developers, Friendster , which was developed in JavaServer Pages (jsp), could not keep up with the speed of development of MySpace and cfm . For example, users could customize the background, look and feel of pages on MySpace. The MySpace.com domain was originally owned by YourZ.com, Inc., intended until 2002 for use as an online data storage and sharing site. By late 2003, it
11616-421: The number of unique U.S. visitors. From that point, Myspace saw a consistent loss of membership. There are several suggested explanations for its decline, including the fact that it stuck to a "portal strategy" of building an audience around entertainment and music, whereas Facebook and Twitter continually added new features to improve the social networking experience. A former MySpace executive suggested that
11748-492: The option to access the service in different regional versions. The alternative regional versions present automated content according to locality (e.g., UK users see other UK users as "Cool New People", and UK-oriented events and adverts, etc.), offer local languages other than English, or accommodate the regional differences in spelling and conventions in the English-speaking world (e.g., United States: "favorites", mm/dd/yyyy;
11880-521: The other being the Sydney Harbour Bridge . Albury railway station is on the main Sydney-Melbourne railway line. Originally, New South Wales and Victoria had different track gauges , which meant that all travellers in either direction had to change trains at Albury. To accommodate this, a very long railway platform was needed; the 450-metre (1,480 ft) long covered platform is one of
12012-604: The past but she is very keen to push forward". The title track was issued ahead of the album as a single in September. The album was also available for streaming online in full during early October. In early February the following year Mitchell performed at the Melbourne Zoo , supported by Georgia Fair, with proceeds to "help fight wildlife extinction". Later that month and in March she supported Neil Finn and Paul Kelly on their combined Going Your Way Tour of Australia. In May she
12144-595: The percentage of the population that visited the site, was anywhere from 10 to 15 times higher in Spain, France and Germany than for runner-up Facebook; in the United Kingdom, MySpace led Facebook by two-to-one in terms of reach. On November 1, 2007, MySpace and Bebo joined the Google-led OpenSocial alliance , which already included Friendster, Hi5 , LinkedIn , Plaxo , Ning , and Six Apart . The alliance's goal
12276-475: The preferred site. In 1934, a Douglas DC-2 airliner of KLM (the "Uiver"), a competitor in the MacRobertson Trophy Air Race (also known as the London to Melbourne Air Race), made an emergency night landing at the town's racecourse after becoming lost during severe thunderstorms. After signalling by Morse code A-L-B-U-R-Y to the lost aircrew by using the entire town's public lighting system,
12408-607: The price News Corporation had paid to acquire the business. In exchange, Google received exclusive rights to provide Web search results and sponsored links on MySpace. When the deal was signed, Google chairman Eric Schmidt said, "When we looked at what was growing on the Web, all our internal metrics pointed to [MySpace] [...] It's important to move Google to where users are, and that is where user-generated content is." By October 2006, MySpace had grown from generating $ 1 million in revenue per month to $ 30 million per month, half of which came from
12540-399: The property before MySpace and its parent company eUniverse (now renamed Intermix Media ) were bought. In July 2005, in one of the company's first major Internet purchases, News Corporation purchased MySpace for US$ 580 million. At the time of the acquisition, the company was seeing 16 million monthly users and was growing exponentially. News Corporation had beat out Viacom by offering
12672-637: The race's handicap category and was second overall. Albury and Wodonga played a military role in World War II with the establishment of ordnance bases at Bandiana and Bonegilla . Proclaimed a city in 1946, Albury played a role in the post-war immigration to Australia with the establishment nearby of Australia's first migrant centre, the Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre in 1947. Albury's proximity to Wodonga has spurred several efforts to achieve some kind of municipal governmental union (see Albury-Wodonga ). In 1973, Albury-Wodonga
12804-468: The redesign was to increase the number of Myspace users and the time they spent on the site. BTIG (.com) analyst Richard Greenfield said, "Most investors have written off MySpace now," and was unsure whether the changes would help the company recover. In November 2010, Myspace changed its logo to coincide with the new site design. The word "my" appears in the Helvetica font, followed by a symbol representing
12936-412: The release with a video produced with friend and collaborator Kirrilee Bailey, and sold-out shows in London. The single received airplay in UK from Jo Whiley of BBC Radio 2 and Lauren Laverne as well as plays on US public radio station KCRW with Morning Becomes Eclectic . Mitchell also performed for the show at the end of 2014. On 26 February 2015, a remix of "Wah Ha" by Sydney electronic trio Seekae
13068-426: The reserve price of $ 100 million being submitted. It has been said that the decline in users during the most recent quarter deterred several potential suitors. On June 29, 2011, Myspace announced in an email to label partners and press that it had been acquired by Specific Media for an undisclosed sum, which was rumored to be as low as $ 35 million. CNN reported that the site sold for $ 35 million, and noted that it
13200-587: The saddle between Monument Hill and Nail Can Hill. West over the ridge lies West Albury . West Albury is primarily a residential area, but it is home to the First World War Memorial (locally known as the Monument), Riverwood Retirement Village, Albury Wodonga Private Hospital (which lies on the corner of Pemberton Street and the Riverina Highway), and the Albury sewage treatment plant. All of West Albury
13332-520: The same number of visitors, but somewhat more global users than MySpace. In May 2009, Facebook surpassed Myspace in its number of unique U.S. visitors. Since then, the number of Myspace users has declined steadily despite several redesigns. By 2019, the number of monthly visitors to the site had dropped to seven million. In June 2009, Myspace employed approximately 1,600 people. In June 2011, Specific Media Group and Justin Timberlake jointly purchased
13464-501: The show and unhappy about the compromises sometimes. I didn't know what I wanted with music but I did know that I loved it. I think that was what the experience cemented. It's taken me a long time to find my own way. But I never went back to school". Four years after Lisa Mitchell was a finalist on TV talent series, Australian Idol , The Sydney Morning Herald summed up the influence of the competition on Mitchell's career: "Lisa Mitchell's journey from Australian Idol misfit to folk siren
13596-564: The single was re-released the next day on iTunes. It was used as the theme tune for online series The MySpace Road Tour . It is featured on the Packed to the Rafters soundtrack; in a 3 Mobile television advert in July; in a UK Surf Detergent advert in September; in a Deutsche Telekom ad; and in Spain in the El Corte Inglés Christmas ad. "Far Far Far Away" from Welcome to the Afternoon
13728-446: The site seem inhospitable. These have been cited as factors why users, who as teenagers were MySpace's strongest audience in 2006 and 2007, had been migrating to Facebook, which started strongly with the 18-to-24 group (mostly college students) and has been much more successful than MySpace at attracting older users. News Corporation chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch was said to be frustrated that MySpace never met expectations as
13860-472: The site without regard to user experience. In 2012, Katz described how News Corporation had put significant pressure on MySpace to "focus on near-term monetization, as opposed to thinking about long-term product strategy," while Facebook focused user engagement over revenue. Danah Boyd , a senior researcher at Microsoft Research , noted of social networking websites that "companies might serially rise, fall, and disappear, as influential peers pull others in on
13992-692: The site. On October 22, 2007, Myspace launched its first original web series, Roommates , which intended to give its users a television-like experience with the interactive benefits of the Internet. On February 27, 2008, TMZ launched its web channel on MySpaceTV. On April 21, 2008, Myspace signed a deal with Byron Allen 's Entertainment Studios that brought programming such as the syndicated series Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen , Entertainers with Byron Allen , Beautiful Homes and Great Estates , and Designer Fashions & Runways to MySpaceTV. On March 10, 2010, Myspace added new features including
14124-646: The site. In late 2007, the site launched The MySpace Transmissions , a series of live-in-studio recordings by well-known artists. On March 18, 2019, it was revealed that Myspace had lost all of its user content from launch until 2015 in a botched server migration with no backup. Over 50 million songs and 12 years' worth of content were permanently lost. In April 2019, the Internet Archive recovered 490,000 MP3s "using unknown means by an anonymous academic study conducted between 2008 and 2010". The songs, which were uploaded between 2008 and 2010, are collectively known as
14256-680: The song was the first single from her next album. On 28 January 2022, Mitchell announced the title of her fourth studio album as A Place to Fall Apart . The APRA Awards are presented annually from 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). The ARIA Music Awards are presented annually from 1987 by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Lisa Mitchell has five nominations. The J Awards are an annual series of Australian music awards that were established by
14388-507: The spring flood peak, has led to the drying out and loss of many billabongs and has harmed the populations of native fish of the Murray River such as the iconic Murray Cod . Several threatened species can be found in Albury, including the Sloane's froglet , Regent Honeyeater , and Squirrel Glider (Petaurus norfolcensis). Situated on the Hume Highway , Albury is a major transit point for interstate commerce. In March 2007, Albury city centre
14520-422: The state grid. When full, the lake covers 80 square kilometres (31 sq mi). The lake was created for irrigation purposes and has caused significant changes to the flow patterns and ecology of the Murray River. Before the construction of the Hume Weir, flows in normal (non-drought) years were low in summer and autumn (though still significant overall), rising in winter due to seasonal rainfall and reaching
14652-469: The township of Belvoir/Wodonga. In 1881, the New South Wales 4-foot-8.5-inch (1.435 m) standard gauge railway line reached Albury, with a railway bridge joining the two colonies in 1883. Albury became the stop over, where passengers on the Melbourne-Sydney journey changed trains until 1962, when a standard gauge track was opened between the two capitals. After World War II, in an attempt to overcome
14784-402: The township on 1 February 1847. In 1851, with the separation of Victoria from New South Wales, and the border falling on the Murray River, Albury found itself a frontier town. With an increase in commerce with Melbourne, the first bridge was built in 1860 to the design of surveyor William Snell Chauncy . Albury at this time became a customs post between the two colonies as New South Wales held
14916-582: The two other east–west roads. Townsend proposed the settlement be named 'Bungambrawatha ', the Aboriginal name for the area, but when his plan was eventually approved and published in the Government Gazette on 13 April 1839 the name had been changed to Albury. Albury is said to be named after a village in Kent , England which it apparently resembled, though that referenced publication seems incorrect since there
15048-628: The western end of Union Road. Thurgoona , to the east of Lavington, was established as a new residential suburb by the Albury Wodonga Development Corporation in the 1970s. In the 1990s a new campus of Charles Sturt University was established here, as was an office of the Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre. A major golf club (Thurgoona Country Club Resort) is also situated in this suburb. Further outlying localities include Splitters Creek –
15180-503: Was "far less than the $ 580 million News Corp. paid for Myspace in 2005." Murdoch went on to call the Myspace purchase a "huge mistake", and Time magazine compared it to Time Warner 's 2000 purchase of AOL , which saw a conglomerate trying to stay ahead of the competition. Many former executives have gone on to further success after departing Myspace. On February 11, 2016, it was announced that Myspace and its parent company had been bought by Time Inc. On January 31, 2018, Time Inc.
15312-686: Was also used in the game LittleBigPlanet (2009) and is the song of the customer service of Chilean telco VTR . In October Mitchell supported Newton Faulkner (aka Crispin Hunt) on his Rebuilt by Humans Tour across the UK and Republic of Ireland which included shows in Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow, and Newcastle. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2009 Mitchell was nominated in three categories: Best Female Artist , Breakthrough Artist – Album for Wonder , and Breakthrough Artist – Single for "Coin Laundry". "Coin Laundry"
15444-540: Was bypassed by a new section of the Hume Freeway . The city centre bypass includes the new Spirit of Progress Bridge over the Murray River, and cost $ 518 million, the most expensive road project built in rural Australia at that time. Creation of the lake resulting from construction of the Hume Dam from 1915 onward necessitated a 30 km deviation of the Hume Highway. The Highway originally ran east out of Albury, along what
15576-617: Was co-written by Mitchell and Hume, was used on the Australian version of celebrity dance competition TV series, So You Think You Can Dance . On 5 January 2008 Mitchell appeared on an episode of SBS-TV's celebrity music quiz show, RocKwiz , where she performed "Incomplete Lullaby", solo, and then duetted with Quan Yeomans on " Raspberry Beret ". She followed in the next month by her second headlining tour with support acts Ashleigh Mannix and Leroy Lee. Mitchell then began writing material for her debut album with Ben Lee, Evans and Bowditch – but
15708-475: Was featured in an advertisement for the 2010 season of Bondi Rescue . In March that year "Neopolitan Dreams" was covered by Lena Meyer-Landrut , on the quarter-final episode of TV show, Unser Star für Oslo , when she was competing for the opportunity to represent Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest . The exposure generated by Meyer-Landrut's performance saw Mitchell's single reach No. 33 on
15840-446: Was featured in the 2011 Australian feature film, Red Dog . In May 2011 Mitchell was featured on vocals for Georgia Fair 's single, "Marrianne", alongside their guitarist-singer, Jordan Wilson, and Boy & Bear 's Dave Hoskings. In October that year Mitchell headed to Hume's rural studio to start recording tracks, "It's beautiful; it's nice to be out in the country every day. Nature affects me in really good ways so I love being out in
15972-513: Was in turn purchased by Meredith Corporation , who went on to sell a number of Time Inc.'s assets, including (as it announced on November 4, 2019) selling its equity in Viant , the parent company of Specific Media, back to Viant Technology Holding Inc. In May 2016, the data for almost 360 million Myspace accounts was offered on the "Real Deal" dark market website, which included email addresses, usernames, and weakly encrypted passwords ( SHA1 hashes of
16104-448: Was interviewed by Marc Fennell for ABC News 24 series, One Plus One , she described her songwriting "I like to demo ... I do really dodgy Garage Band demos on my Mac ... it starts from there ... at that point you can be a control freak and do it however you want". On 28 September 2014, Lisa Mitchell released a new song "Wah Ha" as a limited free download, premiering the single on Richard Kingsmill's show on triple j . Mitchell followed
16236-584: Was once wetland and bush. The only remnant of this is Horseshoe Lagoon to the south-west of the suburb, which has been declared a Wildlife Refuge by NSW Parks & Wildlife and incorporated into the Wonga Wetlands. To the north-west of West Albury is Pemberton Park . East Albury lies east of the railway line/freeway from the CBD and houses now cover the eastern hill alongside the Albury Base Hospital, while
16368-549: Was placed at No. 7 in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2009 . Mitchell performed at Australia's Big Day Out festival series in January 2010. Her pre-gig ritual was to "Be silly and put way too much sparkles on my eyelids and make up silly songs with Stuart [Barlow] (guitarist) and revise my 'Coin Laundry' rant. (I have to warn people not to throw coins etc.)" She enjoyed socialising with other artists including Oh Mercy , Tame Impala , Kisschasey and Eskimo Joe . Her song "Pirouette"
16500-500: Was premiered by online music magazine Hypetrak.com. On 2 August 2016, the first single from Mitchell's third studio album, Warriors , was released, titled "The Boys". The music video, set in Mitchell's childhood hometown of Albury , was inspired by her observations of how "guys spend time together, how they show affection – it's always playing games or joking around or drinking, I notice a real buoyancy, or light-heartedness which I think
16632-454: Was remixed by electronic trio Seekae . Her third album Warriors was released on 16 October 2016 and debuted Top 10 on the ARIA Albums Chart . Lisa Helen Mitchell was born on 22 March 1990 in Canterbury , England. Her parents, Angus and Ruth, are both doctors, and she has a younger sister, Nicola. The Mitchell family had moved to Australia when she was three and she grew up near Albury on
16764-478: Was selected as the primary focus of the Whitlam federal government's scheme to redirect the uncontrolled growth of Australia's large coastal cities (Sydney and Melbourne in particular) by encouraging decentralisation. Grand plans were made to turn Albury-Wodonga into a major inland city and large areas of the surrounding farmland were compulsorily purchased by the government. Some industries were enticed to move there, and
16896-591: Was sold to News Corporation in 2005, the website launched a record label called MySpace Records , with JD Mangosing as CEO, in an effort to discover unknown talent on Myspace Music, a service onto which artists can upload songs, EPs and full-length albums. As of June 2014, over 53 million songs had been uploaded to the site by 14.2 million artists. Artists including My Chemical Romance , Nicki Minaj , Lily Allen , Taylor Swift , Lady Gaga , and Katy Perry gained fame and recognition through Myspace. As of 2010 over eight million artists had been discovered by users through
17028-433: Was the largest social networking site in the world. In July 2005, Myspace was acquired by News Corporation for $ 580 million; in June 2006, it surpassed Yahoo and Google to become the most visited website in the United States. During the 2008 fiscal year, it generated $ 800 million in revenue. At its peak in April 2008, Myspace had 115 million monthly visitors; by that time, the recently emergent Facebook had about
17160-496: Was to promote a common set of standards for software developers to write programs for social networks. Google had been unsuccessful in building its own social networking site Orkut in the American market, and was using the alliance to present a counterweight to Facebook. By late 2007 and into 2008, MySpace was considered the leading social networking site, and consistently beat out its main competitor Facebook in traffic. Initially,
17292-756: Was transitioned from a file storage service to a social networking site. A friend who also worked in the data storage business reminded DeWolfe that he had earlier bought the MySpace.com domain. DeWolfe suggested they charge a fee for the basic MySpace service. However, Greenspan nixed the idea, believing that keeping the site free was necessary to make it a successful community. MySpace quickly gained popularity among teenagers and young adults. In February 2005, DeWolfe held talks with Mark Zuckerberg over acquiring Facebook , but rejected Zuckerberg's offer to sell Facebook to him for $ 75 million. Some employees of MySpace, including DeWolfe and Berman, were able to purchase equity in
17424-766: Was used to promote the Olympic cliffhanger episode of Home and Away . Paul Lester of The Guardian declared Mitchell to be New Band of the Day as "there's more to [her] than an ability to hold a note, although she does that very well indeed, even if her voice is perhaps too idiosyncratic for one of those reality programmes, a little too quavery, kooky and girly". After working in London for six months, Mitchell returned to Australia. During October and November she undertook an Australian national tour starting in Canberra and finishing in Perth. After
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