Linkalicious: 6/26/07
Last summer I was consuming so much new information about internet trends that I often just compiled it all in link-filled blog posts. Happily, I've resumed my news-consuming ways, so I'm going to kick off linkalicious posts again for the summer. I wonder what I missed over the past nine months...
- Basically all teens who are online use social networks. 96% of those aged 9-17, apparently.
- But there appears to be a growing class divide 'twixt MySpace and Facebook.
those using Facebook come from wealthier homes and are more likely to attend college. By contrast, MySpace users tend to get a job after finishing high school rather than continue their education.
- Plaxo has released Plaxo Pulse, which essentially allows people to build their own private social networks from their address books.
- The video search engine Blinkx is launching speech recognition video search.
Very much in its beta stage, the technology is designed to help advertisers target ads alongside or in Web videos based on speech-recognition technology. The program allows advertisers to buy specific words spoken in videos as well as categories created by analyzing its overall context.
3 comments:
hey, you post some really cool stuff here...glad to stop by :)
i guess i am the minority to those stats since i choose facebook over myspace and got a job rather than continue with my education when i graduated in 2000.
Great post. I hope now am I sure about what socialnetworks mean.
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