"Playfish now has over 10 million monthly active users on Facebook (around 1.5 million daily) and two billion monthly minutes of play time in under a year." cripes! games must be getting far more attention than tv...

MySpace creates personalised homepages for mobile...

Why are people so scared of technology? it's totally interwoven into society now, that its far better to teach kids how to use it effectively for both socio-personal and academic development rather than to blame it for suicide.

Danah Boyd on why teens are hanging out on SNSs. 5 fundamental properties of networked publics: conversations = persisent, content = searchable and replicated, public interactions negotiated in front of invisible audiences. all these roads lead to scala

Article from The Times about the success of SNS/MMOG Club Penguin especially amongst the younger 'tween' market.

global map of the most popular SNS per continent. Good to get a sense of perspective in this myspace/facebook hype. people take up whatever service has most people on it - critical mass is vital.