Ypulse Essentials: Widget Wars, 'Hidden Palms' & The Indian Facebook
Posted by anastasia on 05-30-2007
Wiimbledon! (I love how the Wii is making gaming more social - "Wiimbledon is Brooklyn's first — nay, the world's first! — Wii tennis tournament." Thanks Steve!)
- Widget Wars (MySpace officially now owns Mashup sponsor Photobucket and bought Flektor…but can they compete with Facebook's new open door widget policy?) (Mashable)
- 'Hidden Palms' (teen soap premieres tonight…it's getting mixed reviews. Funny how Kevin Williamson's approach was groundbreaking with Dawson's but is now being viewed as formula…While cancelled classic "Freaks and Geeks" was completely unformula) (USA Today) (Wired)
- Minglebox (kind of an Indian Facebook)
- CBS buys LastFM (it's funny that "CBS" bought the music site vs. MTV even though they are owned by the same parent company…you would think it would be more of a fit with Music Television than CBS unless I'm missing something Update: Giga Om has a good post on how LastFM fits into their radio business.) (Paid Content)
- Nancy Drew shilling for Cotton (hoping tween girls will become Cotton conscious as a result of solving the "Cotton Caper" How many times can I say Cotton in this item? They're not paying me, I swear) (ClickZ)
- NPR does the buzz marketing story (we've heard it many times before. It's nice PR for Mr. Youth's [a Ypulse advertiser] work promoting Microsoft's Messenger product on campuses)
P.S. Blah blah Britney's latest letter of truth. Blah blah Lindsay's latest rehab stint. (L.A. Times, reg. required)
May 30th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Great post.
See my latest take on the Facebook effect on birthday wishes.
Mike
http://www.wikinomics.com/blog
June 1st, 2007 at 9:20 am
I don't understand the MySpace vs. Facebook thing. MySpace blows away Facebook when it comes to amount of users and Facebook's growth outpaces MySpace by a lot.
That being said, they are two completely different sites with some similar functionality but totally different goals. I believe we'll see even more and more separation of the two as time goes on and people will be using both.