links for March 9th 2009

Social Networking Now More Popular Than Email, Report Finds – ReadWriteWeb – Nielsen Online, an analytics firm that tracks time spent online at various websites, has issued a report finding that throughout 2008 social networking sites and blogs saw more time spent by users than personal email. While not shocking, the finding does mark an important point in the history of the web.
“Social Media is Here to Stay… Now What?” – Social media is not new. Media has been leveraged for sociable purposes since the caveman's walls. Even in the realm of the Internet, some of the first applications were framed around communication and sharing. For decades, we've watched the development of new genres of social media – MUDs/MOOs, instant messaging, chatrooms, bulletin boards, etc.

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