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There has been a lot of discussion about email becoming an obsolete application and that social networking will eventually take its place.
This article talks about how social networks can make a post go viral - or spread like crazy. It focuses specifically on the biggest social networks - MySpace and Facebook. Facebook tends to be a bit more technical - allowing you to utilize apps to spread the word. They also attract different types of people.
You knew it had to happen sooner or later: China is cracking down on Internet video. Under the new regulations, Chinese web surfers will only be able to access video from state-controlled companies. It looks like these regulations will effectively kill user-generated and other video sharing sites. However, as the AP reports, there is some uncertainty there:
Zango's at it again, showing the company will stoop to any level to serve pop-up ads to people that don't want them. What's being dubbed by security experts as a malicious social worm is brought to you via Zango and Facebook's open platform.
The still in testing Yahoo Publisher Network has been touted as a potential disruptive force, once it opens to more publishers.
Is there a correlation between web traffic and the results of the Iowa Caucus? Well, maybe.Hitwise's Heather Hopkins was half right a couple of days ago, all the way from England. Hopkins measured the Iowa traffic going to different candidate websites and yes indeed Barack Obama beat out Hillary Clinton.
