Dumbest Thing You’ll See Today

There is a new site called Fake Your Space that allows users to pay 99 cents to have “hot” men and women post comments to their profiles on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook (see “Sly” to the right). You can even tell them what to write!

I guess the idea is that if you have fake hot friends,...

Taking at Look at the New York Times Most Popular Feature

Jeff Jarvis points to an interesting post by Chris Riley that compares the editor-controlled content on the BBC homepage to the content on the BBC Most Popular Now page, which is determined by usage patterns of site visitors. He found editors and users were in synch in the stories they chose 37% of the time....

MySpace Welcomes Magazines

I found an interesting tidbit of information today on the Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) website, which provides circulation trend data and marketing information for magazine publishers and advertisers.

MPA provides a list of 36 magazines that have active profiles on MySpace. Basically, these profiles give magazines an outlet for reaching out to tech-minded teens and young people on a personal level....

Facebook Meets the Widget

While doing some new research today, I discovered a few websites with some interesting features.

Sports Illustrated’s website has a function that I’ve recently seen popping up on the Web on rare news sites, such as the Washington Post. In the set of tools provided for each article,...

Exploring Enron’s Emails

After 200 of Enron's internal emails were placed in the public domain by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioned (FERC) back in 2003, innovative software company Trampoline Systems created the Enron Explorer based on their own SONAR platform. In the Enron case, SONAR was able to illustrate existing social networks and information by analyzing email content from the entire organization during the 1999-2003 time period....