31 December 2007
Aussies got hooked on three new ways of social networking this year -- Facebook, MySpace and YouTube. Facebook and MySpace -- owned by News Corporation, which also owns the Herald Sun -- battled it out. About two million Australians are signed up to Facebook and three million to MySpace. More than 42 per cent of Australian chil...
31 December 2007
A year ago it would have been unthinkable to admit to spending December 31 surfing the web. But 2007 has been the year of social networking sites; the year that it suddenly seemed weird if you didn't live your life through sites like Facebook. And when you've spent most of the last 12 months online, why not usher in the next in the same wa...
31 December 2007
If the Internet is like a big grocery store, Obama's aides made sure he appeared on every aisle. As some campaign workers built mailing lists and telephone trees according to political, professional and personal interests, others created the first groups and profiles on sites as varied as Eons, the MySpace for baby boomers, and LinkedIn, a site ...
31 December 2007
The hottest digital media segments going into 2008 continue to be online video, social networking, search and—remnant inventory? That appears to be the case, based on recent developments in the space. While Hulu, Joost and Facebook continue to dominate headlines and imaginations, it's the less sexy elements of the business—ad networks, ad exchan...
30 December 2007
While most Australians spent Christmas Day pulling crackers and sharing jokes, nearly 100,000 others spent it alone. According to the 2001 census results, almost 100,000 people are living on the streets, while many more live alone, cut off from their family. However, the growth of social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook is ...
30 December 2007
University of Massachusetts at Amherst freshman Andrew Leavitt has something in common with software creators and advertising professionals - a growing recognition of the marketing power of social networking websites such as Facebook. A fund-raising veteran of sorts, Leavitt discovered last year that Facebook is a far more effective market...
30 December 2007
Looking back on the 2007 technology world, only a few things stand out. The most prominent companies were Apple and Google; the most remarked-on development was the explosive growth of Facebook; and the biggest surprise was that the European Court of First Instance upheld the EU's anti-competitive ruling against Microsoft. Read full story ...
29 December 2007
When jet-setters began flocking to an exclusive social-networking Web site reserved for the rich, they got the attention of an online community's most valuable ally: advertisers. The invitation-only site, ASmallWorld.net, has 300,000 select members who have become a magnet for companies that make luxury goods and are trying to reach people...
29 December 2007
All the networks, homemade videos, and blogs on the Web have made it a center for socializing, not social change. But a slew of start-ups are using the tech tools and social dynamics that have become the norm online to tackle real-world problems. Whether it's through a social network that helps a Nicaraguan woman get a loan to expand her b...
29 December 2007
Content creation by teenagers continues to grow, with 64% of online teenagers ages 12 to 17 engaging in at least one type of content creation, up from 57% of online teens in 2004. Fueled by new technologies, websites, and social network domains such as Facebook and MySpace, large numbers of teens share and create materials online. Re...