>>> coming up, the new head of myspace. you remember myspace. mike jones with the world's hardest job, taking on facebook. and the world's toughest boss. that was selina lo's reputation. we have two stories of turnaround. our reporters, editor of mashable ben parr and kym mcnicholas of "forbes." this week on "press: here." >>> good morning, everyone. i'm scott mcgrew. you know what's a great story? the comeback. once on top of the world, the fall and then the return. defying all odds to beat the current champion. almost never happens. oh, sure, it happens in "rocky" movies, and from time to time in real life. the red sox, the only team to battle back from three games down to win the american league championship. >> it's me, man. >> reporter: famous hollywood comebacks, john travolta or robert downey jr. they did it against all odds. >> i don't want to see -- >> reporter: but in high-tech the comeback is a rare story indeed. apple did it, going from all but bankrupt to the world's most influential tech company. and now myspace is going to try it.

myspace is desperate to recover any kind of relevance so, comed wrans i am still a myspace user. ask me anything. i am still a myspace user, ask me anything. 60 seconds on the clock and go. kurt. >> is this tom? ( laughter ) >> he's so frigging wealthy. points, yes. kurt. >> can i get myspace on my beeper? ( laughter ) ( applause ). >> a fair question points. grace? >> how tall is teala tequila? >> points, points. kurt. >> what's it like dating underaged girls? >> i'm uncomfortable with it but i'll allow it. points. hodgman. >> if you are being held hostage, type link twice. >> points, points. grace. >> why did you stop at only two lip rings? >> points. a fair question. kurt. >> don't tate me, bro. j.k., you probably haven't heard of that yet. >> point. >> whose space! whose space? >> no, i'm not going to give you point for that. take those points away. grace. >> have you been getting my pokes? >> points. and that's the end of "ask me anything." ( cheers and applause ) grace helbig has ripped into the front, kurt braunohler in second place. that means john, okay, we're going to h

. >> i think about their core product the way we do about myspace. >> myspace didn't innovate. right. we talked about maybe the stock is overvalue. but at least the company is innovating buying the new products which myspace didn't do. >> we figured let's share a picture from guy adami back in the day. here are some of the winners. that is his college graduation. >> thank you. >> runner up comes from daniel bear. i pray i get that job at ups. i would look great in those shorts. >> good one. i like that. >> look at that. >> wow! >> look at those legs. >> remember those shorts? >> that's bow-legged. >> no. but they're tanned. the winner of the caption contest is matt neville. the cousins from perfect strangers graduated college. the show from the late '80's and early '90's. >> it's cute though. >> maybe an album cover. >> maybe. >> which one was that? which is that one? >> i don't know. i have no idea. let's get an earnings alert. checking on kidco dropping in the after hour's session. dom. >> give me a second. i don't know if guy is -- >> he loves the show. this is the most fun

on myspace. >> my name is clay calamity. so, i just picked calamity because i thought it sounded cool. these are links to comment me, message me or add me as a friend. >> narrator: downstairs, his seven-year-old brother is getting a primer in socializing on the web on club penguin. >> he invited me. he said, "if you want to be friends." i'm his friend now. >> narrator: this is morris county, new jersey. but it could be anywhere in america. here, like in the rest of the country, some 90% of teenagers are online, a number that's still growing. >> my mom is not home. it's 3:00 in the morning, and i can be as loud as i want. so that's what we're going to do. >> narrator: for teenagers, the internet is an outlet for self expression... >> hey, guys, what's up. it's me, josh. >> narrator: ...a place to complain about adults.. >> ...my parents, aka, the parental units. yeah. >> narrator: ...and a means to connect with each other. >> uh, my name is lorenzo, and i want to be your friend. >> narrator: this

i have the message on myspace. still! >> tori, you lying. i read it. >> you talk [ bleep ] on myspace all the time. >> yeah, yeah. >> according to court documents, tori tells prosecutors she believes the brutal attack was because mercedes was also angry at her for borrowing a hairbrush and a razor from the house without telling her. it may sound unbelievable, but it apparently sparks this beating and sets it in motion. >> why did you [ bleep ]. don't [ bleep ]. >> the assault takes place over a span of 30 minutes. at one point on the video, tori pleads with her attackers to let her leave the home. >> huh-uh. you're not leaving. >> let me leave! i'll go home. >> no! >> but they refuse to release her and continue the vicious assault. >> don't ever [ bleep ]. why don't you like her? why don't you like her? don't act -- >> adding to the brutality of the beating is the fact that someone's videotaping the entire scene. the attackers are not only beating the victim but playing to the camera. the girl holding the video camera says to the others, as

myspace. we'll look at how the social networking began and the impact it has had over the decade >> reporter: it all started in the 90s with sites like classmates.com which allowed members to connect with old classmate for a fee. by 2002 there were members 18 and over with almost anyone for free. it was myspace in 2003 that took social networking to another level. >> everybody began to migrate towards myspace. it was great for hosting music and gave people tools to go a long way to express themselves >> reporter: concerns grew over minors putting too much information on their my space pages sometimes attracting online predators. >> i would get a message you are really pretty. >> reporter: facebook came along in 2004 with a site based on giving status updates on your every day life. first available only to college students the general public was allowed in on the fun in 2006. >> many my space users had accounts in both places and started to move over the facebook which was a cleaner design and

this was facebook. 84 times was facebook -- i'm sorry, myspace. myspace was just two levels up. myspace is not even on this report. how did that get missed? and i showed you and went -- i called the man who wrote the report. we called him to expos it to you. to expose the truth, why when the defense has no burden under the law does the defense have to call witnesses, police officers it to testify and to tell you the truth tortion bring the truth to light? so you can see and you can render a just verdict. this is outrageous. and you will see in defense exhibit 45 the progression of when someone typed myspace in 84 types. 83. 82. and you sigh the progression. you see no such thing on this report. you don't even see myspace. is is their premeditation. this is their murder case. and mr. ashton gets up here and says we could only hope that she issued the chloroform beforehand. hope? they weren't asking -- they were hoping they are going to get a conviction now? they are hoping that you will buy the chloroform? they are hoping? you are not supposed to hope. you are supposed to prove c

facebook and myspace recommend minimums of 13 years old, but many parents are over the thing that, letting kids as young as 7 create profiles. the fbi says that is dangerous. >> he is a sixth grader, and he started social networking and a very young age. >> i was on myspace when i was 7. i was living with my dad, and i used to contact my mom when i could not contact her or see her. >> now 11 years old, he just got a facebook page,. his mom does not allow pictures on his pages. even his information is un identifiable. >> it is not his real name or town that he lives in. >> but strangers can send anyone a message on these sites, including your child. on facebook, go onto "privacy settings" and change "send me a message" 2 "only friends." >> why would you want to expose your children to any potential danger out there? by allowing your child to have a social networking page, you have punched a huge hole in the side of your house and are allowing predators' inside your home. >> how young is too young to this fbi agent? >> under 18. >> while the aged minimum is up in the air, there is no doubt t

i'm not sure exactly what was on his myspace page. it was deleted right after he was accused of these things because he was so worried about list reputation. she set out to slander him, i do believe. the fbi, though, and local authorities investigated his myspace page thoroughly and found absolutely no links to terrorism. >> she also says that the imam at your mosque was once a visiting professor at a moving in irving texas that she claims is still under fbi investigation. our source of the fbi says they don't know what she's talking about. who -- is your imam -- my understanding is that he has renounced maer hamas and hezbollah. is he radical? >> he is absolutely not radical. he comes from cairo, egypt. he attended the university in cairo -- >> which, by the way, a prestigious university. she says it's a hotbed of anti-semitism and anti-americanism. >> it's a prestigious university. it could be compared with harvard in the united states. a lot of her allegations are completely false. he is one of the most respected members in our com

i have the message on myspace. still! >> tori, you lying. i read it. >> you talk [ bleep ] on myspace all the time. >> yeah, yeah. >> according to court documents, tori tells prosecutors she believes the brutal attack was because mercedes was also angry at her for borrowing a hairbrush and a razor from the house without telling her. it may sound unbelievable, but it apparently sparks this beating and sets it in motion. >> why did you [ bleep ]. don't [ bleep ]. >> the assault takes place over a span of 30 minutes. at one point on the video, tori pleads with her attackers to let her leave the home. >> huh-uh. you're not leaving. >> let me leave! i'll go home. >> no! >> but they refuse to release her and continue the vicious assault. >> don't ever [ bleep ]. why don't you like her? why don't you like her? don't act -- >> adding to the brutality of the beating is the fact that someone's videotaping the entire scene. the attackers are not only beating the victim but playing to the camera. the girl holding the video camera says to the others, as

myspace account making it easier to keep up with all the updates. a connect with facebook button will appear on the myspace home page. both companies say plans for additional content sharing are in the works. it's myspace's way of admitting facebook is the king of social media. a trip to magic contingency domestic doesn't mean you have to leave social networking behind they have partnered with tour visiting walt disney world and disneyland can check in at different locations. they can earn disney branded stamps and pins. found a great restaurant and want to spread the word there's a new app for that. google hot spot allows users to rate and recommend 50 million locations around the world from your computer or android phone. you can also access recommendations from contacts within your hot spot network. creators say hot spot integrates the same concepts behind google places but in a more trustworthy user friendly medium. i'm barbara hall and you're now clicked in. >> also this week google announced boutiques.com allows users to search the latest tren

soon you could be our myspace fan of the day. >>> myspace getting a makeover. the show is rebranded with a new look and focus. so we're joined by myspace ceo mike jones. he joins us from their l.a. office via skype to talk about this relaunch of the site. and myspace is owned by news corp, the parent company of fox 5. good morning, mike. >> good morning, steve. >> i feel like i've been working for you guys because i said well over a year ago that myspace's best option was let's focus on the music thing because it seems like that was still part of the power that myspace was holding, when it came to launching and cultivating. >> that's right. we've seen a big change in our audience. they're getting excitement about music and tvs and televisionp and we have a whole new site and brand that started launching yesterday. >> talk about what data and what folks were used to the old version of myspace will find now when they log on? >> it still has your old account and it has your profile and photos but now you can connect up to your favorite television shows, your favor

remember before facebook there was myspace and before myspace there was friendster and so on. i think google rightly believes their monopoly if they would use the word is not guaranteed and not set in stone and they are more likely to lose it ton retain it. how do you compete with free, not if you're an up and coming internet bit economy company but if you're an old line maybe even what you make can be given away on the internet but what you are is, say, microsoft. how do you compete with free? >> microsoft has had forty years of competing. microsoft was one of the first swear companies -- in the 19 '70s when it was created, the computer company was a hardware company. it was ibm. you buy the hardware and the software was free. and then microsoft -- bill greets wrote this famous letter to hobbyiests say you should pay for software and we won't continue to pay for it if it get for free and they intellectually competing people and the next step is piracy which is a form of the economy of the marketplace economics. the music industry if you don't make the market free the marketpl

updates are going to appear on myspace. at its peak, myspace had more than 100 million active and registered users but that has gone down significantly since facebook started gaining popularity a few years ago. >>> misleading statements sometimes flat-out lies, they are the complaints filed in a bay area court against a very popular online retailer. overstock.com. mark sayre with the claims that have overstock under fire. >> reporter: overstock.com bills itself as a site where you can find brand name merchandise at a significant savings over other online and traditional real tailers. >> not every time when they say 70% off is it 70% off. >> reporter: but this shopper says in his experience that's not always the case. >> recently i bought a mattress topper and it said it was 70% off of the standard price, but it was really maybe 10% different. >> reporter: he is not alone. the district attorneys in 7 northern california counties have filed a lawsuit against overstock.com. the suit alleges the company employs misleading measu

. >> myspace, that was all the rage. what is it that myspace doesn't have that facebook does have? we see myspace going down the other side of the hill here. >> facebook offers a lot of utility in terms of photos, messaging, e-mail, the facebook credits, economic. almost one-stop shopping. people use it for everything. and myspace was a little bit too early. facebook was the right product at the right time. >> people may have suggested with big huge cell phones that looked like a satellite at your ear, that they weren't going to necessarily last. it was just going to be a small percentage of the population to use it. really? >> we all have one. >> do you think that is more akin with what will happen to facebook? >> turns out it's not most important to be first. it's most portant to be the right guy at the right time even if you are second or third after myspace or friendster. >> how much a part of it is luck? >> a huge part. if it just hits people like google did over yahoo or other search engines you're the guy. it's a combination of skill, technology and luck. >> you're our guy f

can't get enough of myspace, twitter, facebook? some people so into it, spending so much time, they're getting addicted. could it be a disease like alcoholism, taking over your life, ruining some relationships? maybe not as good as you should be on the job? then there are people getting obsessed with celebrities. you have this new in with the celebrity. maybe it's unleashing the inner -- whoa! unleashing the inner in all of us. i'm fine. social networking sites. it gives you a chance to chime in on this show. we stay connected with folks we would like to. how do you know it's getting too dangerous? call in. 877-tell-hln is the phone number. >>> this next story is unbelievable. a woman accused of lacing her boyfriend's margarita mix with anti-freeze. he ends up dead and she almost got away with it. cynthia galen, now facing murder charges. her live-in boyfriend, thomas stack, alcoholic, passed away four days after drinking this deadly cocktail. get this. they met while he was being treated for alcoholism. she's a counselor. big-time

i think that brings us all closure on myspace cold case, finally we can all sleep peacefully. time for our live challenge, beer me. >> matthew mcconaughey oldest brother rooster is apparently a real person that exist she is one of the stars of west texas investors club, aka hillbilly shark tank, aka the exact opposite of dallas buyers club, but earlier this week we learned that rooster scored a year's worth of beer for naming his son miller lite. all wrong, all wrong, all wrong. rooster is getting 24 cases of beer which the brewery says constitutes a year's supply, if you're some kind of (bleep)ing pussy. we all know matthew is an academy award winner, but his brother has some star quality in his own right. so comedians, i'd like you to come up with rooster mcconaughey's oscar acceptance speech. we will have that and more when we come back to @midnight. >> [ horn honks melody ] well, well. if it isn't the belle of the ball. gentlemen. you look well. what's new, flo? well, a name your price tool went missing last week. name your what, now? it gives you coverage options based on

fbi investigators netting bad guys on social networking sites. >> i have several myspace and facebook accounts. i have ones i personally use and ones i use for work her he goes undercover in the long line world with phony profiles. >> i have used all types of names and pictures. you got to get creative. >> reporter: it is a new technique for agents to connect with criminals. >> a lot of times the people we are investigating are posting something about themselves on there. >> reporter: private picture, videos, notes and the targets contacts, all tools in crime fighting. >> surprisingly enough they'll post stuff on myspace or facebook that will give their exact locations and contact information. >> reporter: agent evans says most often they are logging on to follow suspects who seek out children. >> they are specifically looking for kids. they often go where kids will be. a lot of times that's social networking sites. >>> tiger woods will be back on the prowl again on the golf course. he hits the greens next month at the. lindsay davis has reaction. >> reporter: three weeks ago he was g

someone on myspace told her she would be -- the world would be better off without her. the boy that told her that was lori drew, the mother of one of her friends. the conviction was invalidated on the grounds that anyone who has ever violated myspace's terms of service would also be guilty. >> because of my daughter's death, laws will be changed. >> it was my daughter. she took from life because of the situation that happen. again, i would not want to be in lori drew's shoes and liquor life. she is already living a life conviction right now. >> there were no laws in missouri designed to deal with cyber bullying. drew was tried in california. >>> o'clock -- new at 11:00 tonight, hot dogs. one group claims there is a link between processed meat and a risk of cancer. a billboard shows hot dogs jammed into a cigarette. >>> we have important information if you plan to go to the national mall f fourth of july festivities. there are several road closureso u should be aware of parking will be restricted on additional roadways. officials recommend taking the metro. for complete

myspace, no you don't. wage. they had to figure out what happened and to stop it from happening again for who knows what that guy is doing now. >> do you remember myspace? you got a message from tom he was an actual person. but when we were on redeye box just bought myspace and they were jackasses so we had a refrigerator statement but notes on the refrigerator about the food like if there was potato chips i don't want your food but now i want it. but notes on your stupid homemade soup. [laughter] be met it was called myspace and you are confused? [laughter] that is mine. >> where are they? where is tom? >> but is social media replacing the social life? >> not in my world but apparently everybody else's. i through facebook away a long time ago. somebody else runs my social media. my neighbor owes me a time of favors so it is amazing. [laughter] and he would not understand that anyway. [laughter] but this whole thing he basically said all of your data which includes your pictures ladies and gentlemen, we are

hightower to troll through his presence on myspace. and there it was soon this covered in addition to the tough guy band photos of commander, mr. hightower's site also included comments like this. posted on his myspace page. "happy "n" word day." that's in celebration of martin luther king jr. day that year. happy "n" word day posted alongside this photo on the myspace page of rand paul's senate campaign spokesperson. this stuff was reportedly posted there for a couple of years and was still just there waiting to be discovered once rand paul picked this guy to be the public face of his campaign for u.s. senate. once this was reported out, mr. hightower had to resign as spokesman for the senate campaign. that was a campaign rand paul went on to win. that embarrassment happened back in 2009, and part of the reason i think that issue stuck more than it might have with anybody else in politics is because this all happened only about a year after rand paul's father, ron paul as a 2008 presidential candidate had to answer for really overtly