Americans who go online for economic information are also using the Internet to take their minds off of the recession, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Pew identified a group it calls "online economic users" which includes 69 percent of all American adults and 88 percent of all Internet users.
Facebook Shows a Glimpse of Twitterness
Update: Facebook Lite is available in the US and India now. It can be found at lite.facebook.com.
Original Article: Facebook confused some users when it accidentally invited too many people to a beta test of what is being referred to as "Facebook Lite." Facebook Lite is basically a stripped down verson of the social network, which includes just status updates, likes, and comments, without things like activity stories, app stories, and embedded content.
Yahoo Debuts New Mail Features
Update: Yahoo turned on the following apps in Yahoo Mail today: Evite, Pingg and drop.io.
Original Article: Yahoo made a few announcements today. Among them were new versions of Search, Messenger, and Mail. You can read about Search and Messenger here and here respectively. Now let’s talk about the new Yahoo Mail.
Online Tool Rates Cell Phone Radiation
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has put together an online consumer guide that rates more than 1,000 cell phones based on the levels of radiation they emit.
The EWG says the list is aimed at helping consumers make better decisions about which cell phones to buy. The free online tool offers information on each phone’s radiofrequency emissions, allowing users to compare different models.
Play Google Voice Messages Right in Gmail
Google has launched a new feature in Gmail labs that allows you to play Google Voice voicemails right from Gmail. Before, when Google Voice users received email notifications from Google Voice, they had to click a link in the message to open a new page.
Data Suggests the ‘Connect Program’ was the Reason Behind Facebook’s Surge
In case you missed it, Facebook is pretty popular. As of June 2008, they’d beat MySpace in terms of total unique visitors worldwide (ballooning to twice as many uniques as MySpace in January 2009)—and even in the US, one of the few Facebook-is-#2 holdouts, Facebook has caught up to MySpace.
Fox Sports Launching Five Online Only Shows
Fox Sports has announced it will launch original programming online starting Monday, September 14.
The webcasts will be streamed weekdays at 1p.m. ET on foxsports.com.
The first online only show will debut Monday and is called "The Afterparty with Jay Glazer." Each week during the NFL season Glazer will interview the five best players from Sunday’s game.
How Fans Engage with the NFL Online
The day has arrived at last. The 2009 NFL season kicks off tonight with the opening game between the Tennessee Titans and the Pittsburgh Steelers (a game our own Rafael Robinson is attending, by the way).
Real-Time Search API Mania
Real-time search engine Collecta announced the release of its API today, meaning developers will be able to use it to pull real-time search results directly into their applications.
The Future of Radio On The Internet
While we talk about the death of newspapers with great regularity it gets to be old news real quickly and even starts to feel a little mean. So to relieve that pressure eMarketer has come out with a report that is evidence of the decline and fall of another old friend, radio. Terresttrial radio is what we are talking about here. Good old fashioned over the airwaves kind of radio is heading in the same direction as newspapers which is sad but just another harsh reality of the shift in the media of the future.