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Nearly Half of Americans Use Facebook; Only 7% Use Twitter [STUDY].

Ken Olsen, Founder of DEC, Dies at 84 – NYTimes.com.  One of the greats.

This one is pretty interesting folks – just illustrates the future growth expected in the social media and virtual world spaces.  From the article:

Currently, PlaySpan powers virtual goods marketplaces across 1,000 video games, virtual world publishers and social networks. …

As virtual goods becomes a booming business, PlaySpan has reaped the benefits of technology and media companies looking to incorporate virtual goods into their platforms.

via Visa Buys Virtual Goods Monetization Platform PlaySpan For $190 Million In Cash.

Free Group Chat App Launches To Challenge Campfire Campfire Competitor.   This looks pretty cool.  Good group chat has something surprisingly few and far between for years.  The key questions for enterprises and aspiring-enterprises are around security, nonrepudiation, and scalability.  Can I create a channel that scales to thousands of concurrent chatters?

Cheers,
Eric

What HP/Palm Got Right (that Apple Didn’t) | Slideshows.

HOW TO: Be a Better Coworker Mashable | The Social Media Guide.  A nice little article reminding us how to collaborate and cohabitate peacefully in “meatspace”.  IE, the real world.

I Want My AJZ – Twitter Media.  the Al Jazeera team has demonstrated something remarkable: used in a particular way, Twitter can be a TV distribution platform, too.

Here’s what sounds like a great little plugin for Chrome:  Cortex for Google Chrome Solves One of Social Media’s Big Problems.

Chees,
Eric

I recently had to rearrange some equipment, and picked up this little guy by Belkin.  Surge protectors are one of those things you just don’t get too worked up about normally.  This one, however, is uniquely functional and well thought out.  Not much to say really – 12 outlets, six of them sufficiently spaced out to allow room for transformers, and surge protection for an RJ45 and a coax line too.

Cheers,
Eric

Going through the archives, and found this article from 2007.  Ok, not by “now”, but by the end of 2011. We remarked back then on how extreme an 80% saturation level would be, although we were admittedly a little caught up in it too. According to Wikipedia, as of November 2010, SecondLife had a (mere) 21+ million users. Nothing to scoff at for sure – that is a huge accomplishment in its own right. But they’re not even 5% of Facebook’s user base.

Cheers,
Eric