Facebook Wants You To Get Your Family Involved
Facebook now has a landing page for users to send to their families as invitations to a group. It comes in the form of a web form with your family’s name filled out as the name of the group.
It then asks you to invite your family members who are on Facebook to participate, then gives you more places to fill in emails of family members who aren’t on Facebook.
Study Looks at Video Viewing Demographics
A study from Nielsen and Ball State University found that 45-54 year-olds are the top consumers of video media. The study ran over the course of a year.
Data was gathered from traditional TVs (including DVD/VCR and DVR viewing), computers, mobile devices and other small screens like in-cinema movies, GPS and display screens outside of the home. Some key findings include:
Wikileaks Sponsor Raided By German Police
The Internet is the last refuge of free speech, but governments aren’t too keen on keeping it that way. The latest offense comes out of Germany, where police raided the home of a Wikileaks volunteer. The police also seized the wikileaks.de domain, which the man owned.
Google Starts Including User-Generated Maps in Search Results
Google has now made it easier to find maps created by others using My Maps. They are starting to show links to completed user-generated maps when they deem it relevant to a query.
Google Gets Involved with Potential 3D Graphics Standard
Tech companies are getting together to crate an open, royalty-free standard for presenting accelerated 3-D graphics online. Included in the consortium are Google, Adobe, Intel, Apple, and others.
Wikirank Shows What People Are Reading About
Search trends are fun, and give you an idea of what the mass population is into during a specific slice of time without always giving much of an explanation for why; the intent of their search could be merely informational or it could be commercial or for some other reason.
More Confirmation of Paid Twitter Accounts
You’ve heard endless rumors, speculation, and theories as to how Twitter will monetize itself. Biz Stone has now confirmed Twitter will be launching its own fee-based services this year after watching others make money of Twitter themselves. The Wall Street Journal Reports:
How to Integrate Online Video into Your Budget
A guide on budgeting for online video content. Learn to understand the costs, save money, and evaluate your video’s ROI.
Reading, Writing, ‘Rithmetic & Twitter?
The horrors of war and the odd perversions of the Victorian era might be a little much for an eight year old. But Twitter, blogging, podcasting, and Wikipedia might just be the 21st century ticket to learning.
Educators in Britain are mulling proposed changes to primary school curriculum that would require kids be taught modern Web-based communication and information retrieval skills instead of teaching them about World War II. War they can learn about in high school.
China Pleads Innocence For YouTube Outage
Remember all the discussion of China and its approach to the Internet that was heard around the Beijing Olympics? It seems that a lot of that type of coverage has slid into the background until recently. Apparently once Google gets involved these items become news again.