Brands should not lurk on social networks they are the equivalent of corporate virtual artifacts that go unvisited in Second Life.//found it quite candid and touching to read Baskin Robbins Twitter around the loss of Irv Robbins. You do not get more real - mediaeater

Williams’ post digs deeper into this in a thoughtful, intelligent way. “[I]s the innovation that will be unleashed by making P2P technology an assumed part of the web protocol stack?” he wonders. (I think that’s why it’s important that we start - mediaeater

Television shows finally returned to the airwaves in April with new episodes, causing the TV category to increase 4 percent to 93.2 million visitors. Yahoo! TV led the category with 15.6 million visitors, a 38-percent increase versus the previous month, f - mediaeater

On a typical day, Second Life players spend close to $1.5 million on virtual clothes, jewelry, homes, cars and real estate. - mediaeater

For most package-goods players, such markets are growing three to five times faster than developed markets where data are more readily available, and they make up anywhere from a quarter to nearly half of global sales. - mediaeater

Last.fm's playground! Here you can try out some of the projects we are working on and let us know what you think - mediaeater

We think MySpace’s Data Availability, Google Friend Connect, and Facebook Connect can be part of a great movement in the industry to give users a better and safer experience online, while respecting user privacy. We look forward to working with our deve - mediaeater

More than 8,000 users from locations around the world have used our tool, Glasnost, to test whether their BitTorrent traffic is being manipulated. On this page, we present preliminary results from these tests. The tests were conducted between March 18th a - mediaeater

Twitter skews heavily towards the college/twenty-something crowd. Twitter attracts 18-24 year-olds at nearly twice the rate of an average U.S website. - mediaeater

or example, an automaker that wants to reach men ages 25 to 49 in the market for a new car may have its commercials run in a movie package that would include “The Godfather.” - mediaeater

# For the full year 2007, revenues totaled $21.2 billion, exceeding 2006 performance by 26 %, itself the former record year. - mediaeater

e should not let the awareness of these threats take over when we study online social networking. When we study the actual practice, we should not be “lured” into only seeing the dangers in things. Rather, online social networking is an opportunity to - mediaeater

Blip is a quick way to tell your friends what song you're into right this minute. You also find out what your favorite people are listening to in real-time — no need to refresh the page. - mediaeater