More MySpace appointments for you. Mike Jones, founder of technology firm Userplane (who make a range of social networking technologies), will become COO, while former MTV exec Jason Hirchhorn will become Chief Product Officer.
Jones and Hirchhorn join former Facebook exec Owen Van Natta - MySpace's new CEO - on what looks likely to be a totally new top team at the struggling social networking firm. The management team overhaul has been led by Jonathan Miller, the former AOL exec who became Chief Digital Officer for MySpace's parent company, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, just a month ago. MySpace falls under his remit, and Van Natta will report directly to him.
Possibly seeing the cull on the horizon, three senior execs, including COO Amit Kapur, quit MySpace earlier last month before Miller's arrival at News Corp. Founders Chris De Wolf and Tom Anderson were pushed out of their top jobs last week, though Tom will remain on the firm's board for the time being, possibly to continue as the service's public face with its users.
It's not clear what any of this means for MySpace Music, the social networking firm's attempt to expand its dominance in the artist profile domain into a Pandora/Spotify style streaming music service.
That service is now headed up by Courtney Holt, another former MTV man. He joined the company after the lacklustre US launch of MySpace Music and recently said he was reviewing the whole operation before rolling it out globally, a review which has delayed launch of the music offer outside North America.
With such a widespread management change at the top of MySpace, it's not clear if Holt is seen as the first of the new guard or the last of the old guard at the company. His recent criticisms of the music platform he inherited might suggest the former, in which case he's probably safe in his job for the time being.