Social Network Demographics

I would have been interested to see where non-social network users fell within demographic space. 

More Proof: Facebook for the Rich, MySpace for the Poor

According to the research, the top third of lifestyle segments relative to affluence (aka the “richest” users) are 25% more likely to use Facebook than those in the lower third. The bottom third segments related to affluence (aka the “poorest”) are 37% more likely to use MySpace. Also of note, Facebook users are more likely to use LinkedIn, a site for professional business networking, and again, another factor which points towards the differences in demographics between the two social networks.

Introduction to HTML 5 Video from Google

This video gives a good overview of some of the new features in HTML 5 in an easy-to-understand format and pacing. Enjoy.

MySQL snapped up by Oracle

Sure, with Sun in house Oracle can serve up a unified Enterprise experience.  But what happens to MySQL?  Will it be killed to prevent competition?  Will it become a second tier, second class citizen to be sold to SMB’s that can’t cough up enough cash to buy the real thing?  Will it be the unstable testbeb for new technologies that get rolled into the pay only version once  they pan out?

Whatever happens,  if you depend on MySQL, your life just got complicated.

Oracle Buys Sun | Javalobby

After weeks of speculation of IBM buying out Sun, which failed to produce a result, today Oracle have swept in and bought Sun. The deal is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt, with Oracle buying Sun at $9.50 per share.

Steve Ballmer says Enterprise IT should provide the “comforts of home”

Well finally someone is talking sense.  Its that last line (below) that bothers me.  I live in a Vista-free zone.  My computers run Mac OS X and my data and applications are more or less all Web 2.0, Open Source, and in the cloud.  So why haven’t I been asking my boss for that kind of stuff?  Oh wait …

What’s so bad about XP? | The Digital Home – CNET News

“If you deploy a 4- or 5-year-old operating system today, most people will ask their boss why the heck they don’t have the stuff they have at home,” Ballmer told the publication.

Ballmer went on to say that it’s incumbent upon the business world to make employees happy and comfortable and the best way to do that is to deploy Vista as soon as possible.

Cloud computing put to the test.

Another Flying Fickle Finger of Fate is needed, as the cloud continues to self-correct shoddy behavior. 

TG Daily – Proxy server trail leads FBI to Palin email hacker

Ramuglia told Goodin that he hasn’t a chance yet to examine his logs, but added that there is a good chance that it will lead to the hacker. Since the interview, he’s received a call from the Anchorage Alaska FBI field office and agents there are highly suggesting that he not lose the logs.

But it gets even better. White hat hackers didn’t even need proxy information to find the culprit because they discovered that the Rubico forum handle was linked to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it A few searches on Google and YouTube further links this email address to 20-year-old David Kernell, a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. His father is Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell.

As you can expect, the Yahoo account has been frozen and all the incriminating forum posts on 4chan.org have been deleted. But this didn’t stop Wired.com from printing some of the posts. Don’t you just love it when hackers brag about the “leet” skills?

In case you were feeling doubtful about Web 2.0

Watch this 3 minute video 3 times.

It reminds you how we got here, and why today is better than yesterday. And maybe convinces you that tomorrow may be better yet.