links for 2008-01-18
- Perspective: Myspace Still Kicking Facebook’s Ass in Traffic – ReadWriteWeb: “Facebook is interesting but Myspace is where the users are, still.” (tags: facebook, socialnetworking, socialsoftware, statistics, stats, analysis)
- Seth’s Blog: Workaholics: “The passionate worker doesn’t show up because she’s afraid of getting in trouble, she shows up because it’s a hobby that pays. The passionate worker is busy blogging on vacation…” (tags: blogging, Career, jobs, Work, management, productivity, sethgodin, tips, lifehacks, leadership, Business)
- Bad Idea: Time Warner to Test Per Usage Web Access – ReadWriteWeb: “Charging per usage — and effectively penalizing high bandwidth users — may only serve to stifle the growth of rich media on the web, even as things like the new Apple TV and the unlimited Netflix streaming plan seek to push these activities into the ma (tags: Bandwidth, streaming, media, video, Business)
- The ‘Seismic Shift’ in Online Video and Velocity Funds Broadband Enterprises | Eric Eldon | Voices | AllThingsD: “YouTube traffic has gone up 18% over the last two months, and Sony’s Crackle (formerly Grouper) has doubled from 1.2 million to 2.4 million users over the course of last fall, according to Nielsen Online.” (tags: media, video, youtube, analysis, analytics, strike, P2P)
- SD Times – Oracle Gets Its BEA… For $8.5B: “Oracle Corp. today announced it has reached a deal to acquire BEA Systems for US$8.5 billion, just a few months after its initial offer of $6.7 billion was rebuffed.” (tags: Oracle, BEA, Business, Java, Acquisitions, server)
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