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    Brad Greenspan, Pro Se

    264 South La Cienega

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    Beverly Hills, CA 90211

    UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

    CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

    WESTERN DIVISION

    JIM BROWN, Individually and on

    Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated,

    Plaintiff

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    BRETT C. BREWER, et atl.,

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    CASE NO: 2:06-cv-03731-GHK-Sh

    CLASS ACTION

    RULE 701 DECLARATION OF LAY

    WITNESS & DAMAGES

    VALUATION

    DATE: TBD

    TIME: TBD

    COURTROOM: The Hon. George H.

    King CTRM 650

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    I INTRODUCTION pg. 4

    OVERVIEW OF ASSIGNMENT pg. 6

    SUMMARY: $3.75 - $32.453 Billion in damages suffered by Class Members

    II TRANSACTION BACKGROUND pg. 6

    III COMPANY BACKGROUND pg. 6

    IV INDUSTRY ENVIRONMENT IN 2005 pg. 7

    V PROBLEMS WITH THE MANAGEMENT FORECAST AND pg. 7

    DR. WILLIAM KENNEDYS DAMAGES REPORT

    VI TRANSACTION BACKGROUND AND ASSUMPTIONS pg. 11

    VII DAMAGES ANALYSIS pg. 13

    VIII THE IMPORTANCE OF CONSIDERATION OF pg. 19

    POSITIONING IN THE MARKET

    IX- THE GOOGLE $1 BILLION INVESTMENT IN AOL IN 2005 pg. 21

    X THE VALUATION OF MYSPACE SHOULD BE BASED pg. 22

    ON OCTOBER 2005 DATA AND VALUATION METRICS USED IN

    DECEMBER 2005 GOOGLE/AOL TRANSACTION

    XI USING COMPARISON OF MONTHLY SEARCH AUDIENCE pg. 23

    XII - Lost opportunity of getting benefit of JP Morgan pg. 272006 valuation report from Zakkour ($1.367 billion for

    MySpace)

    XIII ADDING BACK OMITTED VALUE OF SEARCH ENGINE pg. 28

    PARTNERSHIP REVENUE

    XIV- VALUATION BASED ON GOOGLE SEARCH PARTNERSHIP pg. 31

    XV- CONCLUSION: pg 32

    EXHIBIT 1 - BACKGROUND / WORK EXPERIENCE pg. 33

    EXHIBIT 2Chart - Monthly unique visitors MySpace pg. 35

    EXHIBIT 3- DOCUMENTS REVIEWED (BATES #): pg. 36

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    CASES CITED

    Lightning Lube, Inc. v, Witco Corp. 4F.3d 11433d Cir. 1993 pg. 4

    United States v. Figueroa-Lopez, 125 F.3d 1241, 1246 (9th Cir. 1997) pg. 5

    Asplundh Mfg. Div. v. Benton Harbor Eng'g, 57 F.3d 1190, 1196 (3d Cir. 1995) pg. 6

    Benton Harbor Eng'g, 57 F.3d 1190, 1196 (3d Cir. 1995). Pg. 6

    In Doft & Co. V. Travelocity

    Marcel v. See, Inc pg. 10

    Henry v. Hess Oil Virgin Islands Corp pg. 10

    Rowe v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., pg. 11

    United States v. Bighead, 128 F.3d 1329, 1335 (9th Cir. 1997) pg. 11

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    DECLARATION OF LAY OPINION UNDER RULE 701 BY BRAD D.

    GREENSPAN: CEO, DIRECTOR, FOUNDER PAID SEARCH

    DIVISION, HEAD OF M&A THRU OCTOBER 30, 2003. ONLY

    EXECUTIVE TO HAVE COMPLETED A GOOGLE VS. YAHOO

    SEARCH AUCTION

    I INTRODUCTION

    I , Brad Greenspan, declare:

    1. I submit this declaration in support of the Plaintiff Class Members.The following is based on upon my personal knowledge and if called as a

    Witness I could and would testify competently thereto.

    2. This declaration is made under Rule 701 based on my experience.3. Rule 701 allows lay witness declarations limited to those opinions

    or inferences, which are (a) rationally based on the perception of the witness,

    and (b) helpful to a clear understanding of the witness testimony or the

    determination of a fact in issue, and not based on scientific, technical, or

    other specialized knowledge within the scope of Rule 701.

    4. I am also in a unique position to provide a valuation amount UnderRule 701. Most courts have permitted the owner or officer of a business to

    testify to the value or projected profits of the business, without the necessity of

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    qualifying the witness as an accountant, appraiser, or similar expert. See, e.g.,

    Lightning Lube, Inc. v, Witco Corp. 4F.3d 11433d Cir. 1993) (no abuse of

    discretion in permitting the plaintiff's owner to give lay opinion testimony as to

    damages, as it was based on his knowledge and participation in the day-to-day

    affairs of the business). Such opinion testimony is admitted not because of

    experience, training or specialized knowledge within the realm of an expert, but

    because of the particularized knowledge that the witness has by virtue of his or

    her position in the business.

    5. The amendment does not distinguish between expert and lay witnesses,but rather between expert and lay testimony. Certainly it is possible for the same

    witness to provide both lay and expert testimony in a single case. See, e.g., United

    States v. Figueroa-Lopez, 125 F.3d 1241, 1246 (9th Cir. 1997) (law enforcement

    agents could testify that the defendant was acting suspiciously, without being qualified

    as experts; however, the rules on experts were applicable where the agents testified on

    the basis of extensive experience that the defendant was using code words to

    refer to drug quantities and prices). The amendment makes clear that any part of a

    witness' testimony that is based upon scientific, technical, or other specialized

    knowledge within the scope of Rule 702 is governed by the standards of Rule 702 and

    the corresponding disclosure requirements of the Civil and Criminal Rules.

    The amendment is not intended to affect the ''prototypical example(s) of the type of

    evidence contemplated by the adoption of Rule 701 relat(ing) to the appearance of

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    persons or things, identity, the manner of conduct, competency of a person, degrees of

    light or darkness, sound, size, weight, distance, and an endless number of items that

    cannot be described factually in words apart from inferences.'' Asplundh Mfg. Div. v.

    Benton Harbor Eng'g, 57 F.3d 1190, 1196 (3d Cir. 1995).

    I OVERVIEW OF ASSIGNMENT

    -Updated/revised damages assessment for benefit of Plaintiff Class Members.

    SUMMARY: $3.75 - $32.453 Billion in damages suffered by Class Members

    II TRANSACTION BACKGROUND

    i) $12.00 cash out merger with two investment banks providing fairness valuationreports created

    ii)after the $12.00 price was chosen by CEO and accepted by Board of Issuer.III COMPANY BACKGROUND

    Company was online entertainment and social networking website creator and also for

    purposes of report owned 100% of MySpace, Inc. At the time of its sale in 2005 for

    approximately $649 million dollars, the purchase of the public shareholders equity

    was reported to be $580 million and there existed a $69 million dollar obligation to

    pay the minority shareholders of MySpace, Inc. according to agreements signed in

    February 2005 by and between Redpoint, Inc. and Intermix, Inc, and MSV LLC.

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    IV INDUSTRY ENVIRONMENT IN 2005

    i) Unique in that the pace of online advertising was growing much faster thenother industries in the United States.

    ii)Google had just successfully raised $4.4 billion dollars and announced thesale in August 2005.

    iii) According to company documents and testimony of former head of onlinesearch

    and CEO and founder of MySpace.com and Issuer, Issuer had opportunity to run a

    search auction as of at least August 2005 between at least Google, Yahoo, Microsoft,

    AskJeeves, and AOL.

    iv)Google and AOL set market price for value of search assets on or around the 3 rdand 4th quarters of calander 2005, closing a new Search Partnership in December

    2005.

    v) In this transaction, Google invests $1 Billion into AOL, valuing AOL to beworth $20 billion by virtue of the 5% stake Google takes for its investment.

    V PROBLEMS WITH THE MANAGEMENT FORECAST AND DR.

    WILLIAM KENNEDYS DAMAGES REPORT

    i) The damage report by Anders Minkler & Diehl LLP is helpful toconfirm the problem areas with management forecasts and the banker fairness

    opinions. The expert also cites certain evidence that is useful in triangulating the

    valuations we calculate and conclude in this report are more accurate and sound.

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    ii) Because of both unreliable forecasting historically proven by managementfor MySpace, Inc. and because MySpace was an early stage company experiencing

    significantly greater then average growth rates, Kennedy should not have opted to

    follow bankers fairness opinion method to use the 2009/20010 DCF method for a

    company like Intermix and merely hoped to gain accurate methods for an accurate

    valuation of MySpace merely by adjusting the underlying financials.

    iii) In Doft & Co. V. Travelocity, the Delaware Court made severalprecedential determinations when faced with the task of weighing using management f

    forecasts for a new fast growing company in a fast changing market environment,

    stating:

    a) The court may consider proof of value by any techniques or methods

    which are generally considered acceptable in the financial community and

    otherwise admissible in court.

    b) Both parties used a DCF approach and a comparable company approach

    to value the shares.

    c) A DCF analysis is a useful tool for valuing shares and is frequently relied

    on by this court in appraisal actions.

    d) The utility of a DCF analysis, however, depends on the validity and

    reasonableness of the data relied upon. As this court has recognized,

    methods of valuation, including a discounted cash flow analysis, are onlyas good as the inputs to the model.

    e) The problem in this case is that the most fundamental input used by the

    expertsthe projections of future revenues, expenses and cash flowswere

    not shown to be reasonably reliable.

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    f) Delaware law clearly prefers valuations based on contemporaneously

    prepared management projections because management ordinarily has the

    best first-hand knowledge of a companys operations.

    g) Here, management prepared the 5-year projections for the period 2002-

    2005 and gave them to Sabre for use in its routine planning processes.

    h) Often, projections of this sort are shown to be reasonably reliable and are

    useful in later performing a DCF analysis. In this case, however, the court

    is persuaded from a review of all the evidence that the Travelocity 5-year

    plan does not provide a reliable basis for forecasting future cash flows.

    i) Travelocitys management held the strong view that these projections

    should not be relied upon because the industry was so new and volatile thatreliable projections were impossible.

    j) Punwani further testified that because of the limited financial history of

    Travelocity, together with a rapidly evolving marketplace, it was difficult to

    forecast the next quarter, let alone five years out.

    k) Id. We were really not in a position to be able to put any credence on the

    numbers, both on the revenue and on the cost side. And the only way to get

    credibility in our numbers would have been to take those models and put

    them through reasonability checks [that] were never done because, when

    we built these frameworks, Ill call them, in the year 2000, we were in a

    period of explosive growth. We were growing at 150 percent per year . No

    one really knew what the right number was. Id. at 381-82.

    l) Id. at 383. It was bad enough before when we did the data, and we had

    this new variable that got thrown into our lap, which totally destroyed our

    ability to have any confidence in projections beyond one quarter out. Id.

    m) Although it was aware of the 5-year forecasts, Salomon did not conduct aDCF analysis of Travelocity as part of its work in connection with the

    merger. The testimony of Anwar Zakkour, Salomons managing director, is

    especially relevant on this issue:

    n) Q. Did Salomon Smith Barney prepare a discounted cash flow analysis of

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    Travelocity in connection with this transaction? A. Absolutely not.

    o) Q. Why was no discounted cash flow analysis prepared in connection with

    this transaction?

    A. Because this was an industry that was in flux. And the management team

    itself, which should have been the team that was most able to put together a set

    of projections, would have told you it was virtually impossible to predict the

    performance of this company into any sort of reasonable future term. And they

    in fact had very little confidence with even their 2002 forecast numbers because

    of that.

    p) Q. Is a discounted cash flow methodology a methodology that is

    commonly used by Salomon Smith Barney in valuing companies?

    A. Valuing mature companies, yes.

    q) The court reluctantly concludes that it cannot properly rely on either partys

    DCF valuation. The goal of the DCF method of valuation is to value future cash

    flows. Here, the record clearly shows that, in the absence of reasonably reliable

    contemporaneous projections, the degree of speculation and uncertainty

    characterizing the future prospects of Travelocity and the industry in which it

    operates make a DCF analysis of marginal utility as a valuation technique in this

    case. If no other method of analysis were available, the court would, reluctantly,

    undertake a DCF analysis and subject the outcome to an appropriately high level

    of skepticism. The court, however, now turns to the other method of valuation

    offered by the parties.

    iv)The application of theDaubertstandard rests on the level of generality ofthe expert's study. The more removed the expert's data is from the facts of the

    particular case the more unreliable and speculative his testimony becomes. For

    example, in both Marcel v. See, Inc.,(116)

    andHenry v. Hess Oil Virgin Islands

    Corp.,(117)

    the court excluded the expert's testimony because the projections of future

    earnings were based on general industry studies that failed to take into consideration

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    the specific circumstances of the plaintiff. InRowe v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.,

    by contrast, the court allowed the projections because they were based on the past

    billing history of the plaintiff, who as a result of his injuries could not longer practice

    Law.(118)

    v) Rule 702's analysis is ordinarily prospective. Expert testimony is helpfulif it "willassist the trier of fact." Fed.R.Evid. 702 (emphasis added). Thus a

    District court may not exclude expert testimony simply because the court can,

    at the time of summary judgment, determine that the testimony does not result

    in a triable issue of fact. Rather the court must determine whether there is "a

    link between the expert's testimony and the matter to be proved." United

    States v. Bighead, 128 F.3d 1329, 1335 (9th Cir. 1997)

    VI TRANSACTION BACKGROUND AND ASSUMPTIONS

    i) Based on the evidence reviewed, the Intermix Board avoidedusing the experienced valuation M&A technology banker, JP Morgans Zakkour.

    News Corp received the benefit of keeping this banker from representing Issuer.

    Namely that News Corp did not have to overcome or pay the up to $1.3+ Billion that

    Zakkour estimated MySpace was worth prior to the July 18, 2005 merger agreement

    being signed.

    a) Zakkour leads Citibanks valuation/fairness report and is engaged by Ask

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    Jeeves Board of Directors along with Allen & Co. in February 2005 and values

    AskJeeves worth at least $1.85 million at the time it signs a merger agreement with

    IAC Corp. in March 2005.

    b) AskJeeves lead director David Carlick engaged Zakkour and Allen & co. towork for and represent Ask Jeeves in February 2005, while he was at the same time

    Director and Chairman of Intermix. In addition Andrew Sheehan, his partner in his

    venture capital fund VantagePoint, a control shareholder in Intermix was a director of

    both Intermix and MySpace, Inc. Geoff Yang a long time director of AskJeeves was

    also a director of MySpace, Inc.

    c) The AskJeeves/IAC a stock for stock merger does not close until July 19,2005.

    d) In April 2005, Zakkour joins JPMorgan. JPMorgan served as the investmentbank for IAC in the March 2005 announced merger with Ask Jeeves.

    e) One Board member of IAC Corp during this period is also the Chairman ofInvestment bank Allen & Co. IAC also discloses it retains and works with Allen & Co.

    as their banker in ongoing basis.

    f) News Corp Director Stan Schuman in 2005 was and is one of most seniorbankers at Allen & Co. of senior bankers at Allen & Co.

    g) As of July 13, 2005 or earlier, Zakkour and JPMorgan have been retained tovalue Intermix, Inc. and on July 16, 2005, Zakkours team leading the efforts for JP

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    Morgan and News Corp, provides a valuation for MySpace, Inc. of $1,040 - $1,367.

    Zakkour according to Kennedy, uses 2006 EBITDA Multiples

    h) Defendants further determined they would not allow Deutsche Bank to writea fairness opinion or be one of the two bankers it ultimately retained.

    i) On or around July 13, 2005, Issuer retained both Thomas Weisel andMontgomery. Both banks had not completed the valuation work or provided a full

    valuation report prior to being retained. Unlike Montgomery and Thomas Weisel,

    Deutsche Bank had already created and provided to at least Rosenblatt and Sheehan, a

    Valuation report as of May 2005.

    VII DAMAGES ANALYSIS

    THRU 3 METHODOLOGIES (IN ORDER OF MOST ACCURATE ANDPRUDENT)

    1) Financial Projections for MySpace, Inc. using actual 2005 results known:

    a) The most accurate way to ascertain the valuation for MySpace, Inc. is tobuild a new set of financial projections more reliable then the management forecast

    and then combine this data with the most unconflicted comparable valuation report

    that existed at the time.

    b) We take the last actual quarter to quarter financial results for MySpace, Inc.and use these as the base information which we know is accurate and build a multi

    year forecast, initially we continue the actual growth rate and over time reduce such

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    growth rate to be conservative.

    c) Last Actual results for MySpace, Inc.: $3.74 million in revenue for the March2005 ending quarter which grew to $6.15 million in revenue for June 2005 quarter

    64% growth quarter to quarter.

    d) Last actual results for MySpace, Inc: $463,000 in EBITDA for the March2005 quarter which grew to $1.58 million in EBITDA for the June 2005 quarter.

    e) Using these growth rates, we then use Kennedys 55% EBITDA margin andbeing conservative we reduce this to 45% for 2006. In 2007, we reduce growth rate

    from 64% to 32%. In 2008, we reduce the quarterly growth rate to 22%. Exhibit (XX)

    shows the quarterly forecast and annual revenue and EBITDA for our MySpace, Inc.

    forecast. Below we summarize the annual forecast.

    f) (CY2006) Our MySpace, Inc. forecast using most recent actual resultsshows $264.21 million in annual revenue for 2006 and EBITDA of $118.89 million

    g) (CY2007) Our MySpace Inc. forecast shows $999 million in revenueand EBITDA of $449.55 million.

    h) (CY2008) Our MySpace, Inc. forecast shows $2.43 billion & EBITDAof $1.09 billion.

    2) ITS APPROPRIATE TO CONSIDER AND USE A COMPARABLECOMPANY VALUATION ON A STAND-ALONE BASIS

    a) We then determine that the May 2005 Deutsche Bank valuation report which

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    uses comparable company EBITDA valuations is reasonable and the prudent work of

    unconflicted investment bankers trying to demonstrate their good faith and knowledge

    of the internet sector to Intermix in their efforts to be retained by Intermix to contact

    potential buyers.

    b) Our decision is further confirmed thru review of the recent Delaware casein Doft & Co. V. Travelocity where the court states as part of its decision to reject

    managements forecast and a valuation using DCF in favor of singularly using

    comparable company valuation method.

    c) A comparable company analysis is often used in connection with a DCFanalysis. The court, however, may use a comparable company valuation on

    a stand-alone basis in an appraisal action when it is the only reliable method

    of valuation offered by the parties. In Borruso v. Communications

    Telesystems Intl, the court relied on a comparable company analysis

    because neither expert was comfortable using a DCF analysis to value the

    companys shares due to the limited financial data of the company available

    as of the merger date. 753 A.2d 451, 455 n.5 (Del. Ch. 1999).

    d) We use the Deutsche report 2008 multiple for MySpace, Inc. of 22.5X whichis the top end of the Estimated multiple range as we believe this is appropriate since

    based on the Kennedy report, Google stood out as the most similar growth and

    profitability rates to MySpace, Inc.

    e) Next we plug in the MySpaces new forecast EBITDA for 2008 which ismultiplied by the 22.5X comparable company EBITDA, resulting in a Valuation of

    $24.52 Billion for 100% of MySpace, Inc.

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    f) We agree with Kennedys takeover premium analysis and the need to adjustvaluation based on this analysis. In addition, we again take heed of the recent

    Delaware court decision in Doft & Co. V. Travelocity where the court affirms this

    analysis and recommends adding a premium to the buyout value as final step, stating,

    Delaware law recognizes that there is an inherent minority

    trading discount in a comparable company analysis because the

    [valuation] method depends on comparisons to market multiples

    derived from trading information for minority blocks of the comparable

    companies. The equity valuation produced in a comparable company

    analysis does not accurately reflect the intrinsic worth of a corporationon a going concern basis. Therefore, the court, in appraising the fair

    value of the equity, must correct this minority trading discount by

    adding back a premium designed to correct it.

    g) Therefore, we use Kennedys 35% takeover premium and summarize:

    control Controlling value Option Value premium Indication Exercise MySpace

    2008 EBITDA MULTIPLE 35% $33.102B ($69M) $33.033 Billion

    Indication $24.52B

    Based on the alternative guideline public company analysis provided above,

    MySpace was undervalued by $32.453 billion ($33.033B - $580M).

    h) This growth rate in fact is the core known variable by public issuer

    management that has become available as a triangulating confirmation of our

    methodology being appropriate.

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    3) VALUATION BASED ON EISENMANN HARVARD BUSINESS

    STUDY THAT ESTABLISHED VALUATION FOR SEARCH AUDIENCE VIA

    GOOGLE/AOL TRANSACTIONS IN 2005.

    a) Intermix shareholders also lost out on the opportunity and failed toreceive consideration in 2005 for two different Paid Search assets 100% owned and

    controlled by Intermix.

    b) The value of the online audiences of the top paid search companies suchas Google, Yahoo, and AskJeeves/IAC have since at least 2004 have been increasingly

    followed by analysts and the public. Focus often is on monthly 3rd party audited

    audience or share of U.S. search market tracking services such as Comscore and

    Nielsen Netratings.

    c) One of the most read and reviewed analysis of the online search marketand the relative values of such market and its players in 2005 was an HBS study titled,

    Google Inc released in late 2006 by Professor Eisenmann.

    d) Eisenmanns analysis was combined with author and researcher Amy

    Shuens research and additional studies in her 2008 publication, "Web 2.0 A Strategy

    Guide by O'Reilly" (Amy Shuen, 2008 Oreilly Media). The authorconcluded that,

    "AOL helped tip the paid search market to make Google's

    average U.S. search revenue per query more than triple that of itscompetitors. Positive network effects explain why the value of

    AOL's 7-9% market share points were worth as much as $4 billion

    to Google, although analysts argued at the time that $1 billion was

    too much to protect Googles traffic from falling into Microsoft's

    hands."

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    e) Below are additional highlights from the book that details the impetusand validates the valuation/transaction economics behind Googles $1 billion dollar

    investment for 5% of AOL that closed in December 2005, a $20 billion valuation,

    "U.S. advertising expenditures were about $100 billion in 2007, nearly half of the

    global total. "

    "Google is the big winner in online advertising, dominating in the U.S. and

    internationally. It not only generated the most global online revenue in 2006, but it

    also grew at nearly two times the rate of its peers."

    "Google's amazing success makes it easy to forget that it faced at least two critical

    make-or-break junctures in its race to dominate the "winner-takes-most" paid searchmarketplace"

    "A back-of-the-envelope calculation shows why 7% to 9% market share in a tippy

    market with strong positive effects can be worth $4.45 billion, not just $100 million"

    "By protecting its 7% to 9% of AOL's share of traffic, Google protected all of its 50%

    of paid search traffic from a precipitous decline in RPS (revenue per search).

    According to equity analysts, the RPS gap between Google and its followers, including

    Yahoo! was very large. RBC Capital Markets estimated that Google's RPS exceeded

    Yahoo's by at least 40%.'

    "Looking at simplified numbers may make this easier to see. If the entire industry made

    $12 billion in total online ad revenue and there were 400 billion inquiries, the

    industry-wide RPS for 2005 would be .3 cents. Google's ad revenue was $8 billion, and

    its queries totaled 200 billion. This would imply an RPS of .4 cents for Google and 2

    cents for all others. So if Google's share is around 50% at the end of 2005, losing

    AOL would mean a decline of overall paid search share to 43%. This would have

    caused the advertiser base to contract in response, as well as the average RPS. If

    Google fell to a

    2 cent RPS as a result of negative network effects and falling out of its dominant

    leadership position, it would not only lose 28 billion queries at .04 (7% share), but

    also 172 billion queries at .02 in revenue.""An extra $100 million for AOL's traffic is a tiny price to pay for avoiding a possible

    loss of $4.56 billion in a tippy market in which the leader is just at the 50% point"

    Explains Network Effect described in Harvard Google Study

    The AOL/Google Story

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    "The tippy market example involving Google, AOL, and Microsoft in 2005 is drawn

    from the HBS case Google Inc. by HBS Professor Thomas Eisenmann. There are

    definite parallels to be drawn to the 2008 Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft takeover

    struggle. (The HBS explanatory notes on these specific topics are also authored by

    Professor Eisenmann.) The case provides the contextual details and quantitative

    information on why the analysts at the time believed that Google had

    paid about $100 million too much in the AOL deal."

    "Tippy market"

    "The Google case data together with Christa Sober Quarles' Investment Analyst

    Report on Internet Services-reporting market shares of search engine players in 2005--

    gave me a significantly different perspective of the AOL deal as illustrative of a tippy

    market. The search market shares in 2005 reveal that Google was in a fairly

    vulnerable position because it was clearly in the battle zone for a tippy market, with

    AOL playing the swing vote."

    "Christa Sober Quarle's report and its detailed models of revenue per search fordifferent competitors in the search market supported my hypothesis that the clearly

    dominant 50+ market share leader in a tippy and highly networked two-sided market,

    like the search market, could receive more than 2 times the average revenue per

    search query compared to search engines such as MSN or AskJeeves"

    "Markets with strong network effects also tend to be "winner-take-all" or "winner-

    take-most." Even leading companies can be vulnerable to a swing vote of six or seven

    market-share points. It may seem like the tail wagging the dog, but AOL played a

    decisive role in the early race between Google and Overture, as well as in the tippy

    race between Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. "

    VIII THE IMPORTANCE OF CONSIDERATION OF POSITIONING IN THEMARKET

    a) We cite as guidance the recent Delaware appraisal case which cites asdesirable if available, analysis that can contribute accurate or proper positioning in the

    market as Delaware court described having as part of the input into the best way to

    value corporate assets. According to the court,

    Zakkour testified in his deposition about Salomons

    approach to the valuation and

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    discusses the metrics of the valuation that were emphasized and why.

    The court adopts Salomons valuation as a framework, and isolates the

    valuation metrics that should be of greater or lesser importance in

    determining the appropriate value for Travelocitys shares. Notably,

    Zakkours extensive and detailed testimony in his deposition about

    Travelocitys lost momentum to Expedia evidences Salomons

    awareness of Travelocitys positioning in the market vis--vis Expedia.

    See id. at 51-54.

    b) Therefore, it would have been appropriate for Intermix or its bankers tohave had enough awareness in the marketplace of MySpaces positioning and value

    in the online paid search industry at the time of the sale to have factored this value into

    the management forecast. Therefore the omission of absence of MySpace Search

    revenue or value being mentioned or disclosed both in the Proxy and prior to the Proxy

    period proves that the management forecasts are defective for their lack of inclusion of

    factors in the forecasts that evidence awareness of MySpaces positioning in the

    market vis--vis Google

    c) There is also evidence cited that the Intermix CEO as early as July 18 th,2005 knew AOL was claiming or seeking a $20 billion dollar valuation for its search

    audience, that by August 8, 2005, Intermixs President had opted to skip a company

    business development meeting to attend a search engine show, and increasingly in

    August and September that there was massive demand by Google, Yahoo, and

    Microsoft to lock up or strike partnerships with companies that owned or controlled

    large blocks of search audience.

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    d) Yet no action is taken by Intermix to consummate a search auctionpartnership

    before September 30, 2005. In fact, Intermixs CEO seems to lose momentum with a

    clearly partnership seeking Yahoo between June and August 2005. Intermix CEO

    revises at least Yahoos powerpoint according to email evidence to make it seem News

    Corp already owns MySpace to mislead potential bidders.

    IX - THE GOOGLE $1 BILLION INVESTMENT IN AOL IN 2005,

    -GIVES US A REASONABLE COMPARABLE TO YIELD METRICS TO

    ESTIMATE THE VALUE FOR TWO ISSUER SEARCH ENGINE ASSETS:MYSPACE SEARCH & INTERMIX SEARCH

    a) MYSPACE SEARCH ASSET New Evidence shows Issuers MySpaceSearch had the opportunity to effect and close a Search Engine Auction prior to the

    September 30, 2005 shareholder vote but failed to do so.

    b) Both Yahoo and Google were in discussions with Issuer prior to the

    Shareholder vote.

    c) Intermixs prior 2 year termed exclusive search agreement with Yahoo

    had expired on or about July 15, 2005, opening the way for new search agreement and

    partnership to be consummated and economic upside recognized before the September

    30, 2005 shareholder vote.

    d) Issuer never discloses MySpace Search exists until October 2005

    Comscore Search results show MySpace Searchs U.S. audience had already reached

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    20% of the size of AOL Search monthly U.S. audience

    X THE VALUATION OF MYSPACE SHOULD BE BASED ON OCTOBER2005 DATA AND DECEMBER 2005 GOOGLE/AOL TRANSACTION

    a) In October 2005, Comscore reported that AOL search had 36.0 millionunique visitors as compared to MySpace Search having 8.0 million unique visitors.

    b) Therefore MySpace Search already by October 2005 had at least 22% of theSearch Audience that AOL controlled

    c) If we assume Class claims that AOL had benefitted from or factored in itsOctober 2005 Comscore. Then AOLs audience will be found smaller by 8.0 million

    users for October 2005, and MySpaces audience will be found to have already

    reached 28.5% of AOLs size (as in this scenario, AOL really only had 28 million

    unique Search users for month of October 2005).

    d) Therefore, MySpaces Valuation based on a competitive searchmarketplace existing before the shareholder vote would have cancelled the September

    30, 2005 shareholder meeting based on the size of MySpace Search existing in August

    and September 2005, and could rely on the fact that the October 2005 metrics would

    have been public before another acquisition or revised offer could have been

    completed. Therefore, its reasonable to use the October 2005 Comscore search

    rankings in our calculations for the scenario the Issuer took action to take advantage of

    the upside value in MySpace Search that Shareholders contend defendants became

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    aware of before the September 30, 2005 shareholder vote.

    XI USING COMPARISON OF MONTHLY SEARCH AUDIENCETRANSLATES TO 100% OF MYSPACE WORTH:

    Value Between $4.4 Billion -$5.71 Billion (multiplying AOLs $20 billion valuation

    by either .22 or .285 because MySpace Search was between 22% to 28.5% of AOL

    Search in October 2005). Less $580 million, and based on the perhaps more reliable

    bona fide size of asset in an efficient and competitive marketplace, Issuer shareholders

    lost between $3.75 Billion (4.4 less $650 million received in total consideration

    already) - $5.06 Billion (5.71 less $650 million received in total consideration already)

    a) HITWISE INC, A 3RD PARTY ONLINE SEARCH TRACKINGCOMPANY, In August 2005 according to Hitwise, 3.62% of Googles search came

    from MySpace.

    b) This can be calculated by comparing unique users for months of Augustvs. February 2006 and following calculations:

    The Unique visitors for February 2006 as reported by Comscore are 37.34 million

    unique visitors for MySpace.com. Hitwise reports for February 2006, there were

    approximately 6.2% of Googles traffic coming from MySpace, Inc. (according to

    Hitwise data published in May 2006, Bill Tancer published story)

    c) Therefore, if we look at unique visitors for MySpace in August 2005 of

    21.81 million unique visitors, thats 58.4% of the unique visitors of February 2006

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    when 6.2% of Googles audience was coming from Myspace.com. Therefore, we can

    estimate that in August 2005, MySpace was generating 3.62% of Googles search

    audience. (This is calculated by taking 58.4% of the February hitwise data showing

    6.2% of Googles audience was coming from MySpace.com).

    October 2005 vs February 2006

    A)The Unique visitors for February 2006 as reported by Comscore are 37.34million unique visitors for MySpace.com. Hitwise reports for February 2006, there

    were approximately 6.2% of Googles traffic coming from MySpace, Inc.

    B) Therefore, unique visitors in October 2005 of 24.25 million unique

    visitors, thats 64.9% of the unique visitors of February 2006 when 6.2% of Googles

    audience was coming from MySpace.com

    c) Therefore, we can estimate that in October 2005, MySpace wasgenerating Approximately 4.2% of Googles search audience. (This is calculated by

    taking 64.9% of the February Hitwise data showing 6.2% of Googles audience was

    coming from MySpace.com).

    d) Hitwise provides corroborating source in addition to Comscore that theMySpace Search audience was at least 22%-28.5% of AOLs search audience in

    October 2005.

    e) The Eisenmann HBS study claimed 5-7% of the U.S. Search audience

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    was what Google was valuing thru its partnership announced in December 2005 with

    AOL. Then the Hitwise data confirming that MySpace was providing 6.2% of

    Googles total search audience by February 2006 allows us to estimate and conclude

    that Comscores October 2005 data on unique search users

    (the only month Comscore ever released this data) showing MySpace already had 22-

    28.5% the search audience that AOL had was reasonably accurate.

    FACTORING IN LOST INTERMIX SEARCH ASSET

    A)We are also aware that Intermix had a second search asset focused arounddownload search products and toolbar.

    B) Intermix Search was tracked by Comscore for internal data provided to

    Issuer prior to the September 30, 2005 shareholder vote.

    C) We assume for this permutation that the Jury will find (or on summary

    judgment defendants will be found) guilty of corporate waste or fraudulent

    conveyance by their decision to voluntarily shut down Intermix Search on or around

    April 2005.

    f) Because Intermix competed directly with AskJeevess ISH division in theSearch download toolbar sector, by management shutting down Intermix Search,

    AskJeeves benefitted while shareholders received no value for the Intermix Search

    assets.

    g) When Intermix stop operating its active online user base that had installed

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    Intermix downloadable toolbars or other search products, AskJeeves immediately

    could capitalize on this because their already dominant distribution of their download

    search products allowed AskJeeves to instantly become the dominant toolbar or

    redirect on any users computers that may have been using

    Intermixs download search toolbar or search redirect products previously.

    h) Intermix Search division lost approximately 72% of its audience betweenMarch 2005 and June 2005.

    i) 72% of the total Search Audience lost according to Comscore isapproximately 8.3 million unique Intermix search users that simply disappear and

    their value not factored into the Kennedy Damages Report.

    j) We determine to take the lost U.S. search audience which we can moreaccurately measure the value of. Such lost U.S. search audience can be calculated by

    reviewing Comscore historical metrics provided as part of discovery. In March 2005,

    Intermix Search received 3.154 million unique users compared to July 2005 when

    Intermix Search had decreased to 1.13 million unique users, a decline or loss of 2.02

    million U.S unique users.

    k) If management had not voluntarily turned off its Intermix Searchasset/division and instead attempted to keep these search users as an asset, and

    transferred these users to aggregate all search thru its MySpace Search asset, then we

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    can establish a valuation. This is calculated by adding the Intermix Search users

    lost to the October 2005 MySpace Search audience. With 10 million MySpace Search

    users in October 2005, MySpace would have been valued between $5.55 Billion

    (27.7% of AOL audience) - $7.14 Billion (35.7% of AOL audience)

    XII - Lost opportunity of getting benefit of JP Morgan 2006 valuation report

    from Zakkour ($1.367 billion for MySpace)

    a) Zakkour led Citibanks valuation investment banking group that Carlickbrought in to work with Allen & Co. and in March 2005 provided while at Citibank, a

    $1.85 million valuation for AskJeeves.

    b) If Issuer had got opportunity to receive investment banking services ofZakkour, then shareholders would have been able receive a bid of $1.367 billion for

    MySpace. just from News Corp a single bidder. This opportunity was lost.

    c) Carlick was the Director of Intermix who failed to disclose to the board or

    Shareholders that he was conflicted by allowing Zakkour to be working for News Corp

    and adverse against Carlick and issuer.

    d) Therefore, the lost value for shareholders was $1.367Billion (the Zakkour

    valuation report he provided for News Corp) less $650 million paid by Acquirer, or

    $717 million dollars.

    e) Kennedy notes the Zakkour valuation report contributed by JP Morganwas based on 2006 EBITDA.

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    f) The $1.367 billion valuation report from Zakkour awards MySpace with a

    32.6X managements 2006 EBITDA multiple.

    XIII ADDING BACK OMITTED VALUE OF SEARCH ENGINE

    PARTNERSHIP REVENUE

    a) IF MANAGEMENT FORECASTS MUST BE USED, THE OMITTEDSEARCH REVENUE FOR 2006 MUST BE CALCULATED AND CONTRIBUTED

    TO CREATE NEW SEARCH INCLUSIVE FORECASTS.

    b) Microsoft Search Partnership. According to Jim Heckerman, the head ofFox Interactives Search group, Microsoft was offering $800 million in January 2006

    for being MySpaces exclusive search partner.

    c) Based on this new market information disclosed in a 2009 publishedbook, we can match MySpaces unique user audience value to what that audience is

    worth to the Search Engine bidders at different points in time.

    d) In the book, Heckerman is offering search bidders 3 year terms and citesdiscussions with Microsoft as early as January 2006 where they allegedly offer $800

    million which works out to $266 million per year. Since traffic data comes out mid

    month for the prior month, then we must assume Microsoft was most likely reviewing

    December 2005 audience/user statistics of MySpace.com if Heckerman was

    negotiating with them in January.

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    audience size of MySpace, which is what was the most recent data available at that

    time, that Heckerman affirms Microsoft was willing to pay $22.1 million per month

    going forward based on Decembers 32.2 million unique users.

    f) This allows us to create a metric we can ascribe to proportion value forprevious months if we assume the market had been efficient and competitive and

    Shareholders had been able to offer up or run a search auction in October 2005 or any

    months the value that can be generated or received by Issuer if it had wanted to close a

    transaction with a slightly smaller audience sooner then January 2006.

    g) If December 2005s unique audience is worth $22.1 million fromMicrosoft, then August 2005 which has 21.81 million unique monthly users which is

    67% of MySpaces unique audience compared to December 2005, would be worth

    $14.807 million per month.

    Using Ratio to forecast prior months value for 12 months of 2006

    a) Therefore, if Microsoft had been in discussions with Issuer in September2005 and concluded a deal, they would instead of December 2005 data, be reviewing

    August 2005 3rd party unique user data that became available mid month typically.

    b) Microsoft would have valued the opportunity in September 2005 to lockup an exclusive search partnership with MySpace based on MySpaces August 2005

    Unique user metrics.

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    c) Since MySpace in August 2005 had 67% of the unique users compared toDecember 2005, Microsoft would have been willing to pay $14.807 million per month

    (67% of Decembers 32.2 million unique users) to conclude an exclusive search

    partnership with Issuer.

    d) Therefore, assuming its proven a Search Engine Partnership couldhave been completed before the September 30, 2005 shareholder vote with Microsoft,

    then management forecasts would have been revised to include the effects of closing

    such a material transaction in 2006.

    e) If Issuer closed such a transaction in September 2005, then 12 months of PaidSearch revenue would have been generated in calendar 2006. This would added

    $177.68 million in revenue to the management 2006 forecasts for Myspace.

    f) Therefore, adding Online Search into the revised 2006 managementforecasts put forth by Kennedy, cures the omission of online search revenue in the

    2006 management forecasts and the deficiency of such forecasts that did not

    previously include near term search revenue as a component.

    g) Kennedys 2006 MySpace forecast of revenue was multiplied byComparable companies that averaged a 25X revenue valuation. Kennedy assumed

    MySpace revenue was $63.052 and its EBITDA was $30.874.

    h) Kennedy multiplied MySpace 2006 forecasted Ebitda by 14X a factor hegot from the comparable companies he determined fair.

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    i) Finally Kennedy multiplied each valuation with a 35% premium, tocreate two valuations professed to be reasonable.

    j) Adding a Microsoft search partnership back into the Kennedy 2006forecast for MySpace, increases 2006 revenue from $63.052M to $240.73M.

    k) Using Kennedys 14X Revenue multiple against the recast 2006 MySpaceforecast with online search via the metrics received from evidence of Microsofts

    January 2006 offer, MySpace is attributed a value of $3.37 billion.

    l) With 35% premium for takeover added (as used by Kennedy), we receivefinal valuation for MySpace based on 2006 total revenue of $4,549,834,000

    XIV- VALUATION BASED ON GOOGLE SEARCH PARTNERSHIP

    Using Ratio to forecast prior months value for 12 months of 2006

    a) Therefore, if Google had concluded a deal in September 2005, they wouldinstead of August 2006 data, be reviewing August 2005 3rd party unique user data that

    became available mid month typically.

    b) Google would have valued the opportunity in September 2005 to lock upan exclusive search partnership with MySpace based on MySpaces August 2005

    Unique user metrics.

    c) MySpace in August 2005 had only 32.84% of the unique users compared toJune 2006.

    d) If MySpaces June 2006 unique audience of 52.34 million users is worth

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    $25.0 million per month from Google, then August 2005 MySpace unique audience

    which had 21.81 million unique monthly users would have been worth $10.4 million

    per month (41.6% of $25.0 million).

    e) MySpace could expect to receive at least $124 million in search revenue in2006 from Search Partnership with Google in September 2005 ($10.4 pr. month X 12).

    f) Adding a Google search partnership back into the Kennedy 2006 forecast forMySpace, increases its 2006 revenue from $63.052 million to $187.052 per year.

    g) Using Kennedys 14X Revenue multiple against the recast 2006 MySpaceforecast of $187.052 (via inclusion of search revenue generated from assumed Google

    agreement having been closed prior to September 30, 2005), provides for a MySpace

    Value of $2.618 billion.

    h)With the 35% premium for takeover added, we receive a final valuationfor 100% of MySpace based on 2006 total revenue (with inclusion of a Google

    search partnership) $3,534,300,000.

    XV- CONCLUSION:

    I declare on penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the

    foregoing is true and correct. Executed this 20th day of October, 2011, in Los Angeles

    Brad D. Greenspan

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    EXHIBIT 1 - BACKGROUND / WORK EXPERIENCE

    QUALIFICATIONS OF EXPERT

    -I have approximately 12 years of industry experience.

    -I was CEO and founder of eUniverse, Inc. from its inception in 1998 as my idea thruOctober 30, 2003.

    -I was the founder of MySpace.com while Chairman and CEO of eUniverse in 2003.

    PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

    -Educational & Professional Certification

    i) Two years of Law Society Undergraduate at University of Santa Barbaraii)Bachelors of Political Science, 1996 University of Los AngelesPROFESSIONAL RECOGNITIONS AND AFFILIATIONS

    i) Morgan Stanleys Internet analyst announced in November 2003 that IssuereUniverse as of October 2003s 6 month ending data, was the #1 fastestgrowing portal on the Internet eclipsing AOL and Yahoo.

    ii)Founder of Myspace.com.iii)Founder of eUniversePRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

    i) Between 1999-October 2003 I co-created and presented Issuers financialforecasts and was sole decision maker on all internet strategy and determined

    allocation of funds if any for any new project.

    PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

    1996-19980 President of Palisades Capital a merchant investment bank where Iraised over $60 million dollars for 4 public companies.

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    1999- October 30, 2003 Chairman and CEO of eUniverse, Inc.-I was initial and first head of Search for eUniverse, Inc., the issuer and signedfirst search partnership with Overture acquired and operated as Yahoo in 2003.

    2004-2005- Palisades Technology I was partners with Yahoo and operated asearch toolbar division for game companies including leading casual games

    company Big Fish Games and Browser companies like AvantFind.com

    2006-president, President LiveUniverse, Inc. a network of entertainmentwebsites

    2008-present, President of LiveVideo, Inc. a Los Angeles based network ofentertainment websites

    2006-present, Chairman of BroadWebAsia, Inc., - operates HupoTV.CN aChinese video entertainment website

    2006-2009, Co-Founder and Board Member, Michigan based DrathsCorporation, clean technology leader in renewable green chemistry.

    Management led by Michigan State University professors and green chemistryaward winners Dr. Karen Draths and Dr. John Frost.

    2006-present, Board Member, Borba Corporation

    2010-present- Managing Director of Social Slingshot Pte Ltd, a Singapore basedincubator fund partnered with the Singapore Governments National ResearchFoundation (NRF). I was awarded this $5 million dollar fund to encourage me towork with Singapore entrepreneurs and their universities entrepreneur programs.

    TESTIMONY IN TRIAL OR DEPOSITION

    i) Greenspan V. eUniverse, 2004, Delaware Judge Strine. (See summary of trial where

    I provided Delaware counsel evidence to uncover backdating fraud against defendants)

    ii) Delagado V. Intermix. I was expert witness for LA City and provided factinformation and background for the city of Los Angeles prosecutors in their adwareconsumer case against Intermix that was settled after Intermixs listing expired.

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    EXHIBIT 2- Monthly unique visitors as reported by Comscore for Myspace.comCompared to certain key months where Microsoft and Google offered MySpace or its

    parent company certain economic offers which provide a value per month thesecompanies are willing to pay or value MySpace search at for the latest traffic/audiencestatistics that are available during the month a deal is offered up for MySpace.

    July 2005 21.21M uniquesAugust 2005 21.81M uniques $14.807September 2005 21.6M uniquesOctober 2005 24.25M uniques

    November 2005 24.68M uniques

    December 2005 32.2M uniques $22.1 MillionValue

    January 2006 35.5M uniques MSFT $800MOFFER

    February 2006 37.34M uniquesMarch 2006 41.88M uniques

    April 2006 48.03M uniquesMay 2006 51.44M uniquesJune 2006 52.34M uniquesJuly 2006 54.52M uniques $25.0 Million

    ValueAugust 2006 55.78M GOOGLE $900

    OFFERSeptember 2006

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    DOCUMENTS REVIEWED (BATES #):

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