Russian Investment Values Facebook at $10 Billion
Posted on 26. May, 2009 by Daniel Taylor in Internet
Man, who’d have thought that getting real time updates on what all your worthless, average idiot friends had for dinner, or seeing pictures of what other bourgeois morons they were hanging out with last weekend would be worth so much fucking money
YouTube Losing Half a Billion Dollars a Year
Posted on 16. Apr, 2009 by Daniel Taylor in Internet
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Interesting piece on Slate today about YouTube, the supposed grand-champion of user-generated content, which is of course the basis of the Web 2.0 revolution. According to analysts best guesses, the site loses around half-a-billion dollars a year
Facebook Users Are Dumb. Literally.
Posted on 13. Apr, 2009 by Dallas VonKillbot in Internet
Not to rag of Facebook patrons, but a new survey indicates that people that frequent said social networking site have lower grades than those who actually have a life other than e-stalking their ex-girlfriends and Twittering. Whodda thunk it?
Facebook users have lower overall grades than non-users, according to a survey of college students who also ironically said the social networking site does not interfere with studying.
That disconnect between perception and reality does not necessarily mean that Facebook leads to less studying and worse grades — the grades association could [...]
Friendster is Alive and Well, Sort Of
Posted on 05. Mar, 2009 by Daniel Taylor in Internet
Slate.com is one of my favorite places on the internet, and not just because they think I’m an “eloquent and oft-quoted” blogger (despite the fact that the blog in question has sadly since been erased from the interwebs). Today they explore the social media wasteland that is Friendster and find, somewhat surprisingly, that not only are people still using it, but that people are actually still investing in it, in search of the burgeoning online Asian invasion
Facebook Says Sorry For Trying To Steal All Your Content, Info, and Photos Forever
Posted on 18. Feb, 2009 by Daniel Taylor in Internet
Enough people apparently lost their shit over Facebook’s recent changes to their Terms of Service that said changes have been rescinded, for now at least
All Your Content Is Belong to Facebook
Posted on 16. Feb, 2009 by Daniel Taylor in Internet
Did you know that, thanks to a recent change in Facebook’s Terms of Service, that anything you post on your Facebook profile can be used, and conceivably sold to third parties, by Facebook, even after you shutter your account?
Obama Whitehouse Stuck With Windows XP, No IM, No Facebook
Posted on 22. Jan, 2009 by Daniel Taylor in Politics, Technology
The White House may have nice rugs, but technologically speaking, it’s on some outdated shit
Guns N Roses Chinese Democracy, Paul McCartney’s The Fireman Premier On Myspace
Posted on 20. Nov, 2008 by Daniel Taylor in Blog, Music
Myspace, its like Facebook only not as cool. But at least they have music:
MYSPACE MUSIC TO GLOBALLY PREMIERE NEW GUNS N’ ROSES ALBUM “CHINESE DEMOCRACY†BEGINNING NOVEMBER 19TH
LOS ANGELES–November 19, 2008— Chinese Democracy, the highly anticipated album from Guns N’ Roses, will be premiered worldwide exclusively through MySpace Music, the world’s premier music community. Beginning today, fans can stream Chinese Democracy in its entirety three days before the album will be available for purchase by visiting the band’s official MySpace Music profile. The Guns N’ Roses album exclusive [...]
