Author Archives: donsmith

Review: MacBook Excels at Windows, OS X

AP writer Robert Weston tests out Windows on Macbook. He used a black, 2-GHz with no with a $100 1GB memory upgrade. “Apple Computer Inc.’s latest laptop looks sleek, runs fast and should give makers of Windows-based notebooks considerable cause for concern.”

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30% of the entire US Internet population use MySpace

digger: Can 51 million people be a fad? The executives at News Corp. and MySpace certainly hope not. The article has some interesting statistics of social websites. Unfortunately digg is not on the list.

me: I too want to know what “unique” means. Sites like myspace don’t care how many accounts you have, where as sites like digg want you do stay with one ID, because you’re voting.

I’m sure with a bit of research it would read something more like: 90% of people ages 12-25 visit myspace every month and they each have an average of 4.6 accounts. The rest are parents watching their kids and a few social deviants. But of course everyone has heard of it by now.

–don

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