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http://mashable.com/2007/07/11/myspace-losing-to-facebook/

"While MySpace still holds the lead overall, Facebook has increased its number of US visitors under the age of 18 (about 2.5 times), while MySpace has dropped about 30% for the same age group"

or:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/03/business/03online.html?ex=1306987200&en=50eeef6343012d1c&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

"For big, slow-moving corporations, this presents a problem. When Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation acquired the community site MySpace nearly a year ago, the site was at the height of its popularity. But now there are indications that the teenagers who made MySpace cool may be moving on to other things." The whole story is worth reading as well...

And as others have said, Bebo, Twitter, etc are coming along as well.

Orchestr8 also released its personal mashup platform this past week, AlchemyPoint. It's similar to MashMaker in some ways but also offers a bunch of capabilities MashMaker doesn't, like the ability to visually scrape or cut-and-paste web content, even dynamic content (search results, etc.). The tool was reviewed favorably on Mashable earlier this week.

With that convenience you also assume risk.

Last year, some iPods shipped with a virus. A fairly small number (around 1%), but a concern. But given the number of times Facebook has been hacked, you might want to reconsider. Facebook would likely be far more damaging. Unless you think all problems with Facebook have now been fixed, and no new ones will be introduced as the software evolves?

http://mashable.com/2007/07/31/facebook-downtime/
would tend to argue against that. The link appearing on a site named mashable.com has a certain irony.

If the value/risk proposition is acceptable to you, go for it. The sad part will be that relatively few people would realize that there *was* a risk/value proposition that required evaluation. They'd just do it for the convenience, a perceived coolness factor, or whatever. Then we'd get to read all about it on Slashdot, in an article filled with outraged posts. Same old thing, different day.

According to these guys, google sky is (like google earth) stitched together actual photographs.

Could be more accurate than a generated model.

It doesn't matter what's legal and what's not. All that matters is that they can suppress any budding website with legal threats, delays and costs. There's a trail of damage a mile wide behind these scum Death By Lawyer: 10 Cool Sites We Miss

This is new, and quite a bit different than the API that has been around for awhile.

Now, instead of just using the API to integrate Facebook with external apps, developers can use the platform to run their apps right inside of Facebook. For example, a Flickr app could be made that would replace the built-in photo tools.

There are already 30 or so apps available to add.

The one thing you have to take into consideration when you say people might migrate to the next biggest thing because of this; is the percentage of the user base of Myspace this action will affect. In August '05, teenagers only accounted for 25% of the entire user database compared to now only 12%(http://mashable.com/2006/10/05/most-myspace-us ers-over-35/). The one thing that surprised me though is almost half(41%) of all the people on Myspace are between 35 and 54. I see from Myspace's point of view, that this might actually increase there user base. Giving heightened since of security and well being to the 'older' majority.

Early rumors had him working with Amazon in the effort, but this should clear things up.

Google, Amazon, Opera, Mozilla, all are good ideas but as they expand their reach, they turn to crap. Google is going to Hell, Amazon is there, Opera likes the road, and Moz? They seem to be eyeing it.

Whatever happened to, "Do what you do best. Forget the rest"?

When we first came across this information a few days ago, it was also linked to Mashable.com, which claims that up to 3,000 logins may have been compromised, and that they only recently became more successful in running the attack (having initially screwed up the inserted script). The other aspect is that Mashable appears to be talking about a slightly different phishing attack, which is still functional (using MySpace bulletins to spam other users).

Filtering based on blacklists (as you are suggesting MySpace admins do) doesn't always work. In this case, the URL that Netcraft discovered is only one of many being used to perpetrate the attack - as soon as one gets blacklisted, another will pop up. As to why it was left up for so long after discovery and notification? I guess people and companies just don't care as much about their security as they should.

If you want to see what we picked up on, you can always look here, or in my /. Journal.

Reminds me of that South Korean site, Cyworld. Here's an article a little more interesting than the Wikipedia one. You can also try CNET.

On a sidenote, I find this trend of funny short names (Zune, Google, Wallop) as amuzing as the Koreans putting the word "cyber" in as many brands as they can.

This is breaking news, but the entire point of this article just got destroyed with the news that myspace is looking to expundge these so-called widgets:

http://mashable.com/2006/07/21/myspace-update-thre atens-youtube-rockyou-and-hundreds-more/

" I think we're one step closer to Miscrosoft paying us to use their search engine..."

Dude, it's already happening.

Apparently the ROCKR looks like an obese call-girl.

LOL.

7 Things To Do With Your Old iPod Mini

Goodbye iPod Mini. Hello iPod Nano! But wait...what are you going to do with that old Mini now that you've decided to fork out for an even cuter sliver of iPod goodness? Chill, dude, I'm here to help you out...

1. Use it as the world's most expensive paperweight.

2. Carry it in your top shirt pocket to deflect stray bullets.

3. Add it to your iPod family, you freak!

4. Stock it up with appropriately wistful tracks (Power of Goodbye, Bye Bye Baby...) and stick that sucka on eBay, tightwad!

5. Use it as a *really* opulent doorstop.

6. iPod dominoes, anyone?

7. Save yourself over $200. Just take your Mini and hit it with a sledgehammer until it's real flat. Then paint it black and color in the screen with some crayons. Hey presto...you don't need to fork out for a Nano after all!