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BusinessWeek magazine has a piece about user-generated content and how it’s old and busted now — people really want professional content, apparently.
Below is a summary of key data points from Hitwise regarding Black Friday Traffic (week ending Nov 17th)
MySpace will be testing the ad supported music waters this March with punk band Pennywise. Fans will be able to go to the MySpace profile of Textango, a mobile indie music distributor, and after adding them as a friend be able to download the entire album for free.
The publishers behind the venerable Physicians' Desk Reference opened a new site for consumers based on the same information platform as the book.
Facebook is busy ruining Christmas, and that's the least of the worries. Violations of user privacy are higher on the worry list, and MoveOn.org has launched an online petition and ad campaign against Facebook's brand new "Beacon" program.
Compared to anything you’ll see coming from the BBC or CNN, this is admittedly a pretty minor piece of news. Yet it’s nonetheless nice to hear that Facebook plans to drop the word “is” from its users’ status updates.
