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June 26th is Internet radio's scheduled "day of silence." The Radio and Internet Newsletter (RAIN) organized this event in an effort to overturn the increasing royalty fees. They are encouraging users who regularly listen to Internet radio to take the time to call their Congressmen in support of the Internet Radio Equality Act.
 Online Video More Popular Than Ever
The use of online video has skyrocketed in recent years. While commonly considered the "mecca" of online video search, Youtube ...
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The world of social networking is changing, but don't worry, it's not permanent. It's more of a tide than anything that reaches and recedes from all things. MySpace is changing, Facebook is catching, and Friendster is resurrected.
Editor's Note: In the beginning, many criticized that a network built on teenage verve was sure to fail. So far, they've been wrong. But other networks are catching up quickly, and the MySpace demographic has changed, nearly reversed. Have an idea about what this means for the future of social networking? Let us know in the comments section.
Like Internet dating in its infancy, social networks have graduated from something for the kids (with dating, it was the geeks) to a normalized part of society. Critics had similar concerns about Rock N Roll in its day, and short skirts, and tie-dye, and jazz and dancing.
Most likely there was a time when daily hygiene was tantamount to snobbery. Things change with acceptance. MySpace exchanged one stigma for another, immediately branded a site for teenyboppers, and then the fishing hole to catch a predator.
Despite that, and despite the concern that such a youthful audience replete with perverts would fizzle out over time, the site has continued to grow, even to the point that the majority of the 109.5 million visitors to MySpace users are now over 35, both according to comScore.
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Of course, you know what happens when the grownups raid your secret hangout, right? The He-Man Womun-Haterz Club can't thrive in a cloud of perfume, the mice can't play with the cat around…choose whichever cliché you wish.
You might note also though that Rupert Murdoch is rumored to be looking for a way out, if he can exchange MySpace for a nice chunk of Yahoo.
Anyone not signing up for MySpace these days (really, is there anybody?) are defecting to Facebook, Friendster, and Bebo. It's not really defecting as much as it is double dipping, though. Over half of social network users maintain multiple profiles, flitting from network to network the way they would rooms at a party.
In the past six months, after Facebook opened up to non-collegiates and developers, the site has more than doubled in number of unique visitors, growing from 23 million users in December 2006 to 47 million in May 2007. During the same period, Bebo jumped from just under 11 million visitors to 17 million.
But the most explosive recent growth has been, surprisingly, from Friendster, a company that just so happens was awarded a US patent on social networking, signifying how long they've been in this game. The site has steadily grown since December from 18.7 million visitors to 24.8 million.
While that's less than the others in terms of visitors, the site, and VentureBeat, point to the page views, spiking by 40 percent just last month to 9 billion. The company attributes the sudden spike to "fixing" the technology that stymied its growth in 2004, just as the meteoric rise of MySpace was to occur.
Friendster's graph server, which made it impossible to manage four quadrillion factors (we're assuming Venture Beat is using not using that number as hyperbole), has been revamped to more easily show how users are linked to their friends, and by what degree of separation, similar to a feature used on LinkedIn. But the main result of this revamp is that users are better able to track what's going on with their friends, thus increasing page views per user.
While that may seem like cheating, it's growth nonetheless, and of the others in the top seven networks – HI5, Tagged, and Piczo – Friendster is the only one not stagnant or declining over the past half-year.
So what happens next? Who knows for sure? It seems Murdoch is thinking of jumping ship, perhaps just for a better opportunity, or it could be he detects the changing tide. Maybe Facebook is catching up too fast. Maybe Friendster is poised to sue the whole lot of them.
Or maybe it's just the natural, social flux of things.
| Article by Jason Lee Miller, a WebProNews editor and writer covering business and technology. |
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All The Good Kids Are On Facebook
 By David A. Utter
Staff Writer | WebProNews
Through several months of observation, Danah Boyd found something of a divide between users of social networking sites MySpace and Facebook.
There are about 300 million people in the United States, and tossing groups into neat taxonomies of classification doesn't always do justice to them. We strive to understand the world around us. Organizing groups of people for research always poses an obstacle to that understanding.
Boyd, a Ph.D candidate at Berkeley, wrote of her observations of teens in parts of the US. She gathered her observances on teens and social networking into an essay that reflects the difficulty of dropping someone into a rigidly defined class:
In sociology, Nalini Kotamraju has argued that constructing arguments around "class" is extremely difficult in the United States. Terms like "working class" and "middle class" and "upper class" get all muddled quickly. She argues that class divisions in the United States have more to do with lifestyle and social stratification than with income.
I'm not doing justice to her arguments but it makes complete sense. My friends who are making $14K in cafes are not of the same class as the immigrant janitor in Oakland. Their lives are quite divided. Unfortunately, with this framing, there aren't really good labels to demarcate the class divisions that do exist.
Demarcate she does, with the Facebook crowd falling into a 'hegemonic teens' group, the MySpacers in a 'subaltern teens' group. The Facebookies come from relatively stable families, an inference we can make from Boyd's observation that those families generally emphasize education and going on to college after high school.
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Search Bots Eating Bandwidth
I have submitted my site to a search engine a few months ago, but
lately, unknown robots eats up my 2.5 GB Bandwidth in just about 10-20
days. I only have about 2 short videos and about 2-30 images on my
site, so there's no reason why it would eat up that amount of bandwidth.
I have checked my access log, and found out:
38.99.13.123 - - [23/Jun/2007:20:44:45 +0900] "GET /t/imagery/ HTTP/1.0" 404 17507 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Twiceler-0.9 http://www.cuill.com/twiceler/robot.html)"
61.135.162.52 - - [23/Jun/2007:20:44:53 +0900] "HEAD /folder/folder/folder/content.html HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Baiduspider+(+http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.htm)"
They were crawling on my site every minute!
May I know how to block these robots using the .htacces? Please let me know if this is not the right forum to discuss about this issue.
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