EISNER SEALS MYSPACE DEAL.Byline: Daily News Former Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney chief Michael Eisner Michael Dammann Eisner (born March 7, 1942) was CEO of The Walt Disney Company from September 22, 1984 to September 30, 2005. Early life Michael Eisner was born to a wealthy family in Mt. Kisco, New York, and raised on Park Avenue in Manhattan. has struck a deal with MySpace to offer the social networking site A Web site that provides a virtual community for people interested in a particular subject or just to "hang out" together. Members create their own online "profile" with biographical data, pictures, likes, dislikes and any other information they choose to post. original video content, the Financial Times reported Wednesday. The agreement, which could be announced today, is the first of many anticipated ventures between MySpace, owned by News Corp., and the creators of short-form video entertainment, the newspaper reported on its Web site. Under the deal, part of MySpace's bid to compete more aggressively with YouTube, MySpace will distribute and promote Eisner's new online drama, "Prom Queen," the Financial Times said. Each "webisode" will last 90 seconds and new installments will air on MySpace every day. MySpace's 160 million users will be able to watch the shows a day before they appear anywhere else on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . |
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