Interesting Stats on Adult Social Networking

Plenty of stats - overall message is the SoSo is spreading significantly outside of 18-25 year olds.

Pew Internet Report on Adult Social Networks

News that I didn't get to tell you

There were a host of stories from 2008 that I was just too busy to tell you about. Here are the links to them.

May

• MySpace announces 'Data Availability' project with Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, Twitter


• Google Friend Connect Launches


• Data Portability Smackdown: Google 1, Facebook 0


• The talkification of the web The film and music industries have been turned upside down by the arrival of the internet. Now it's the turn of telecoms.

Comcast acquires Plaxo
Comcast purchases Plaxo for a rumoured $150-175m. Comcast plans on using to integrate community features on TV, broadband data and phone services.


June

• Who uses the Web on their mobile phone?
• Nokia acquires Symbian and will open source it

July

• Mobile web reaches critical mass

September

• Google's Android mobile unveiled

November

• Mobile internet usage on the rise
• Google adds voice and video chat to gmail

December

• OpenID - Socialising all over the web? Facebook Connect and Single Sign-on using OpenID
• Wireless turns iPod into a phone (from Truphone) Truphone's software turns itouch in a phone usuing wi-fi and software from Truphone.
  
• Dictionary of project management lingo