How galling. Chris DeWolfe should have been the star of the show at News Corporation's management offsite this weekend. The Myspace founder, Hollywood-dapper among the rumpled Anglosphere newspaper hacks at the Monterey pow-wow, had just sealed the social network's biggest deal, the $250m acquisition of Photobucket. So who had the seat of honor, at Friday's dinner, to the left of Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation's chief executive? Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Myspace's biggest rival, Facebook. DeWolfe had to wait till dessert, after the sandal-wearing Facebook founder abandoned his chair for a late-night show of Spiderman 3, to sidle up to the boss. Disclosure: I was at the News Corporation management meeting, on a panel with Zuckerberg. The event was off-the-record, but Jeff Jarvis, who was moderating our panel, has already given an account of the dinner. So this anecdote is fair game.

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