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Is Twitter Setup For Easy Stalking?
By Mike Moran
No, it's not just the bird. And, no it's not my opinion. One of my teenagers told me that Twitter is creepy. And I saw a recent post by Paul Dunay where his fourteen-year-old's friends "wanted nothing to do with [Twitter]." Given the meteoric rise of Twitter, how can it be that at least some members of the digital generation have such negative reactions? These very same kids are active in Facebook beyond all bounds of time management, so they are not cyber-shy.
Digital Downloads Coming To eBay, Live Nation, and Fairmont Hotels
Perhaps if labels make it easier for fans to purchase, they will buy more music; or so the theory goes. MySpace Music, imeem and Spotify are just a few of the sites adding buy buttons. Now some new players who each already have millions of website visitors are entering the online music retailing game.
Digital Music Sales To Rise Dramatically In The Next 5 Years
A new study by JupiterResearch, a Forrester Research company, predicts that digital music will grow from the current 18% to 41% of total sales in 5 years. Researchers credited stores like Amazon and the transition to mp3's which make downloads portable for some of the increase.
SmugMug Taps Amazon For SmugVault Storage
Image sharing site SmugMug opened a new service to handle the storage of larger image formats, as well as any other files their users wish to store.
Ebay To Stop Allowing Digital Product Sales
By Kenny Tran
This is quite a big news for those who is earning a living or just some pocket money from selling digital product on Ebay. Hello…This is Brian Burke, Director Global Feedback Policy. Digital goods are often reproduced at little to no cost to the seller. On eBay, this creates the potential for Feedback Manipulation (both real and perceived). To preserve the integrity of the Feedback system, effective March 31 all goods that can be digitally downloaded or transferred electronically must be listed using the Classified Ads format.
Wishlist Widget Allows Digital Gifting
Getting a virtual slice of pizza might be fun and all, but five-month-old startup gBox is betting that people would rather receive something more tangible this holiday season. It's also betting social networkers will appreciate its new Wishlist widget more than Facebook's Beacon program.
Law Firm Purges DoubleClick References
The demand for the FTC chair to recuse herself from the Google and DoubleClick antitrust review yielded a surprising little twist.
Americans In The Dark About Digital TV Switch
By Mike Sachoff
A good number of U.S. TV watchers are not aware that analog signals will change to digital in 2009, according to Leichtman Research Group's "HDTV 2007: Consumer Awareness, Interest and Ownership" report.
