Women Outnumber Men on Social Networks
July 30, 2008
A new study from Rapleaf.com has found that women outnumber men on social networks.
Here’s the overall numbers.
Women: 24,821,901
Men: 20,559,526
Unspecified: 3,887,623
All of the social networks that Rapleaf.com looked at except LinkedIn and Perfspot.com. You can see the full chart here on ReadWriteWeb.com. Rapleaf.com’s research did not include microblogging sites like Friend…
YouTube Acquires Omnisio
July 30, 2008
Google’s YouTube has blogged that they have acquired a video editing/mashup tool called Omnisio.
As you probably guessed, we’re big fans of anything that lets folks interact with online video and gives the YouTube community the chance to express themselves in creative ways. New features such as Video Annotations, which allow you to insert comments and data into the video itself, are just one ex…
GigaOm Acquires jkOnTheRun
July 29, 2008
The jkOnTheRun mobile gadget blog has been acquired by the GigaOM blog network. jkOntheRun’s authors Kevin C. Tofel and James Kendrick will continue to write the blog. In a post here about the acquisition, GigaOM founder Om Malik says jkOntheRun has towering been one of his favorite blogs.
jkOnTheRun is one of the rare blogs that covers the world of mobile gadgets with razor-sharp wit and insig…
Popular Facebook Scrabulous Game App Pulled
July 29, 2008
There are a lot of annoying Facebook apps and there are a few Facebook apps that are enjoyable and/or add value. One of the Facebook applications that was actually fun was Scrabulous. Unfortunately, it has now been pulled by the developers considering of a lawsuit from Hasbro, the owner of the board game Scrabble.
Some are quick to call Hasbro stupid by its Scrabulous decision. The problem …
Music Videos Take by YouTube’s Most Viewed List
July 27, 2008
Music videos are dominating YouTube’s list of the most viewed videos of all-time. Avril Lavigne’s “Girlfriend” music video recently pushed out Judson Apply’s Evolution of Dance. Artists with music videos on YouTube’s most watched page include Rihanna, Timbaland, Alicia Keys, Chris Brown, My Chemical Romance and Akon. Only a few of the most-viewed videos are not music videos from top music labels -…
Guy Gets Girl With Blogging in Twix Commercial
July 26, 2008
Blog has become a mainstream word and it’s a hot sufficient topic that advertisers are now using it in commercials. Here’s a Twix commercial where a guy convinces a girl to come back to his apartment so they can do some blogging. “Oh Blogging,” she says, “I love Blogging!”
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Digg May Let Users Roll Their Own Diggs
July 26, 2008
ReadWriteWeb reports that Digg may soon let its users manage their own sub-Digg websites.
According to various reports from the last Digg Townhall/meetup that week, Digg’s CEO Jay Adelson announced that Digg will soon let its users create and manage their own ’sub-Diggs.’ Digg’s main competitors like reddit and Mixx have already given their users that ability, and Digg has been rumored to sta…
Twitter is Follower Central So Follower Issues Really Sting
July 24, 2008
The most fundamental feature on Twitter is followers. People’s followers/following relationships is what makes the website’s simple service work. Despite hot competitors like Plurk and FriendFeed, Twitter is still follower central. They are by far the leading microblogging site and many up-and-coming microblogging services and social networks let you import your Twitter friends. New services prett…
Blogspot.com #1 Malware Source Says Sophos
July 23, 2008
A Sophos study has found that Blogspot.com is the biggest malware site on the Web. CNET reports that the Sophos study says Blogger accounts for nearly 2% off all malware sites.
As for illegitimate sites, Sophos notes that Geocities and Blogger both assemble it easy for anyone to set up a Web site without much identification. Blogger, owned by Google, is particularly problematic, says Sophos, wit…
Conversion Blogging Video
July 22, 2008
Yaro Starak from the popular Blog Mastermind mentoring program has today released a video that looks at a processing of making money from blogs that he calls Conversion Blogging. Yaro’s been using it to build by $10,000 a month from his blog.
Yaro is an expert at building an audience and using e mail newsletters to market to them. The video gives a lot of food for thought (it’s 32 minu…