Compete.com just released their November statistics and Facebook has closed the gap with the U.S. social network leader, MySpace. According to Compete.com Facebook grew 10 percent to just under 50 million visitors in the United States versus MySpace who reached approximately 56.5 million visitors. At this rate Facebook will overtake MySpace for the largest social network in the United States within the next month or two. Facebook continues to have impressive growth domestically in addition to substantial international growth. Facebook’s own statistics provided by their advertising platform suggests that the company has approximately 45 million registered users which have profiles...
Nothing captures the magic of Christmas like a warm pile of cookies fresh out of the oven...preferably shaped as some sort of corporate mascot. We wouldn't advise using TiVo's complete recipe—not that we doubt "1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted music from Rhapsody" isn't simple delectable—but you probably can't go wrong with their free TiVo cookie cutter. You know, if you've always wanted to eat a cookie shaped like a mutant, anthropomorphic television. [TiVo via Consumerist]...
Link: http://www.mbvmusic.com/this-is-mbv/2754 Veteran music blogs Fluxblog, Largehearted Boy, Said the Gramophone, Chromewaves, and Catbirdseat have teamed up to create one enormous music megablog. Does that 'V' actually stand for Voltron??? Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »...
njoyed, a new site where friends can share recommendations, launches today. The site allows friends to make recommendations and request recommendations in categories like books, movies, places, clothing, music, restaurants and services. Except it hasn’t. Quite. That was the opening paragraph of the review I wrote about RecommendBox back in March, the site which today relaunches as njoyed. (I just replaced the site name). The question is, is there much difference? Here’s the old site: And here’s the new: Don’t get me wrong. I respect the guys involved. Robert Loch and Scott Rutherford are part of a particularly hard-core set...
AFP - A "Tap Tap Dance" videogame built exclusively for Apple's hip iPhones was launched Thursday, challenging users to stay in rhythm with songs by tapping the device's screen in time to the music....
SSRN-Music and the Market: Song and Stock Volatility by Philip Maymin... via Waxy & Kedrosky.... Philip writes- I compare the annual average beat variance of the songs in the US Billboard Top 100 since its inception in 1958 through 2007 to the standard deviation of returns of the S&P 500 for the same year and find that they are significantly negatively correlated. With the recent high stock volatility, people should now prefer less volatile music. Furthermore, the beat variance appears able to predict future market volatility, producing 2.5 volatility points of profit per year on average. Read more |...
The unmarked Airstream trailer parked across the street from the Space Needle Tuesday belonged to Nintendo and was loaded with the company's latest games, two Wiis and an armload of DS handhelds. I spent about an hour in the trailer, which was on its last stop on a two-month road trip demonstrating the games to media outlets around the country. The games are already on the market -- including "Wii Music," "Animal Crossing:" "City Folk," "Mario Super Sluggers" and "Wario Land: Shake It!" Most interesting, frankly, was the story of how the demonstrator, Jamie Ball, ended up with a Nintendo...
Previously on "As the Mark II World Turns": Ritz and others started shipping to early-birds, Westfall interviewed by Calumet, and the battery grip and battery are in-stock and shipping. Tonight, on a brand new episode, we have more shipping news, unboxings, behind-the-scenes from Laforet, and more. The shipping continues as we have reports of at least two different 5D Mark II kits (w/EF24-105 LISUSM lens) getting shipped by Amazon.com to early-bird pre-orderers. Meanwhile, new unboxing ceremonies, this time at Beyond Megapixels and via Canon Rumors. The latter is a Canadian unboxing. From the man who brought us the ground-breaking "Reverie"...
