MySpace's chief software architect quits

BANGALORE, INDIA: About two weeks after News Corp fired MySpace's CEO Owen Van Natta, the online social networking  company saw three executives leave the company. In the latest departure event, MySpace's chief software architect Chris Bissell has bid adieu to the company.

MySpace has confirmed Bissell's departure to TechCrunch.

Bissell, who has been with the company for over four years, was charged with maintaining MySpace’s back-end architecture.

It was just one week after the firing of Van Natta that Kate Geminder, SVP of User Experience and Design; and Monica Keller, stream architect left MySpace, according to TechCrunch.

In 2005, when MySpace was going through turbulent times, News Corp acquired it for $580 million. Since then, many salvaging attempts by News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch did not apparently bring in the expected result even as its rivals kept social networkers glued to them. Over the years, Twitter and Facebook became synonyms for social networking.

Murdoch had replaced MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe with Van Natta last year, betting that the former No. 2 executive at rival Facebook could freshen up the company.

Though the MySpace Music it recently introduced boosted the company's expectations in the market, it did not become a huge hit.

Lack of fund is another problem that has been crippling the company operations. Last year, MySpace had cut its international staff by almost 30 per cent and closed offices abroad. So, it seems, MySpace has to go miles and miles before it even reach somewhere around its rivals area.