MySpace Camera Widget/​Sex-​​Aide

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The exper­i­ment con­tinues. This was the first review offered me by ReviewMe, and nat­ur­ally, in the spirit of exper­i­ment­a­tion, I accepted like a shot.

So, basic­ally, it’s a tool to add a MySpace widget to your profile (it also supports other social networks) that gives you

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Selling my Soul or Entering Reality

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This is an exper­i­ment. How do those words at the top make me feel? I am 40, have been a journ­alist for seven years, a website author for eight years, but a blogger for less than six months. This is how it has worked when it came to pro­fes­sional magazine reviews —

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MySpace: The Beast of Santa Monica

The latest Hitwise Consumer Generated Media Report reveals that MySpace’s dom­in­ance over other social networks shows no signs of slowing down. MySpace has a market share of 81.92% among the social networks, with users spending over 30 minutes on the site in an average session. This is the second-​​​​longest session time in the survey, with

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Web 2.0 in the Guardian

The Guardian reckons Web 2.0 is ready for the main­stream with its Weekend section dom­in­ated by a 15-​​​​page feature entitled ‘A Bigger Bang’. John Lanchester’s article provides the keynote to the section, in a piece which is well-​​​​written and clever:

a new wave of innov­a­tion on the internet, an innov­a­tion focused not so much on new

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Soaring Profits or Wishful Thinking?

A new report from eMarketer pub­lished yes­terday suggests that advert­ising spending on social networks will soar over the next four years. Worldwide revenues over $2bn are pre­dicted in 2010. The report suggests that the most main­stream sites, dom­in­ated by MySpace, will grab the largest share of this revenue.

It’s not entirely clear

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Vox Populi?

Nice inter­view on Techcrunch about Vox, the new social network/​​blog platform from SixApart. I have to confess that I didn’t really see the point of Vox when it first appeared, given the exist­ence of all the other social networks out there. SixApart’s Andrew Anker explains:

More import­antly to Vox, we believe there is very

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