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More than Half of MySpace Visitors are Now Age 35 or Older, as the Site's Demographic Composition Continues to Shift comScore Analysis Reveals Demographic Profiles for Selected Social Networking Sites — comScore Media Metrix, a leader in digital media measurement, today released an analysis …
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John DeMayo / JohnDeMayo.com:
comScore Media Metrix's analysis of MySpace's average user's age — I don't buy it. — Fred Wilson and others note comScore Media Metrix's analysis of MySpace, claiming more then half of their visitors are age 35+. This just didn't sound right to me, so at first I justified it in my mind …
Mark Evans:
Jumping into the Blogsphere with b5media — A little more than two years ago, I wrote a column suggesting blogs were little more than online diaries for love-sick teenage girls. I was wrong. Dead wrong. As readers of my blog(s) have discovered, I've embraced blogs as an exciting …
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Squash, Valleywag, Newsome.Org, A View from the Isle, Mathew Ingram, Alec Saunders .LOG, The Blog Herald and Om Daily
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Knowledge@Wharton:
Dot-Com Bubble, Part II? Why It's So Hard to Value Social Networking Sites — Less than three years after emerging from nowhere, the hot social networking website MySpace is on pace to be worth a whopping $15 billion in just three more years. Or is it? — Is the much smaller Facebook …
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Jimmy / paidContent.org:Social Networking: Does Anybody Know Anything? [by jimmy]
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Five Questions with Skype co-founder Janus Friis — Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, together could be considered Internet's biggest trouble makers. As co-founders of Kazaa they brought the wrath of the entire music establishment. With Skype they poked the telephone industry in the eye, before flipping it to eBay for billions.
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VoIP Lowdown, TechCrunch UK, Alec Saunders .LOG, The Blog Herald, DV Guru, Skype Journal, 21talks and IP Democracy
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kottke.org:
Google code search — Google launched a new code search feature today. At least two sites already offer this functionality, but a great deal of attention follows Google wherever they go. — Code search is a great resource for web developers and programmers, but like the making available …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Local review site Yelp raises $10 million from Benchmark — Yelp, the Web site offering user-generated reviews of bars, restaurants and other places, has raised $10 million in venture capital from Benchmark Capital. — We recently mentioned Yelp's wave-making with its parties.
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Ex-Chief of H.P. Pursued Leaks, Too — The former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carleton S. Fiorina, once the most prominent female executive in the United States, ordered the first of a series of leak investigations into contacts by board members with journalists in January 2005, she says in a long-anticipated memoir.
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Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:
Former CFO Anderson steered Apple through some rough times — Fred Anderson garnered a reputation as a buttoned-down guy with a steady eye on the bottom line during his eight-year tenure as chief financial officer at Apple Computer Inc. — After leaving that post in June 2004, Anderson joined Apple's board of directors.
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Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:Apple Says Jobs Knew of Options
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istartedsomething.com:
Exclusive look at Windows Vista's viral marketing: Clearification.com — Days away from launch, someone has sent in a tip about the official Windows Vista viral marketing campaign called Clearification. If you loved Demetri Martin in The Daily Show, you'll love him here.
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
A Gaggle of Google Wannabes — Ask.com and other challengers hope to pull share from Google with new search methods, but it won't be easy to unseat the market leader — In the race for Web-search share, Ask.com is the tortoise. The search engine formerly known as Ask Jeeves still handles less …
Ross Miller / Joystiq:
Joystiq review: South Park makes love, not Warcraft [update 2] — To kick off the fall season of South Park, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone decided to take on gaming phenomenon World of Warcraft. The episode kicks off in Goldshire. Cartman, "a mighty dwarf," takes back from a bathroom break before they all take on a quest.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Hello Natural Language Search, My Old Over-Hyped Search Friend — This is a rant. It's a rant from over 10 years of watching people trot out natural language search as the "killer" solution to the current state of search, something that's happening once again with Powerset.
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Techdirt, B2Day, Valleywag, Don Dodge on The Next …, VentureBeat, Mathew Ingram, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Screenwerk, Business Filter and Mark Evans
Mya Frazier / AdAge:
Wal-Mart Shuts Down the Hub — Retailer's Foray Into Social Networking Closes After Less Than Three Months — COLUMBUS, Ohio (AdAge.com) — Less than three months after launching its quasi-social-networking site aimed at teens, Wal-Mart has shut down the Hub.
Matt Mondok / M-Dollar:
The Firefox development team returns from Redmond — Back in August, Ars reported that Sam Ramji, Director of Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab, invited members of Firefox's development team to the Microsoft campus. At the time, it was unclear whether the Firefox team would actually accept the invitation.
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
Times Publisher Johnson Forced Out — The Tribune Co. forced out Los Angeles Times Publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson this morning, a little more than a month after he defied the media conglomerate's demands for staff cuts that he suggested could damage the newspaper.
