Election 2008

Quick News: September 9th Edition

I was just drafting an email with the weekend’s social networking and political news, when I realized that I might as well post it…maybe it will become a regular thing, along with the Web Picks. We shall see, but for now, this is what happened this weekend across the internet:

• Steve Forbes is predicting that the 2008 presidential election will consist of Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, and Michael Bloomberg.

• MySpace has hit 200 million users. This is big news…that is more people than the individual population of every country in the world except Indonesia, the United States, India, and China. I couldn’t find any verification of this outside of Mashable, but it seems to be on par with their historical growth pattern.

• Tila Tequila is getting her own show on MTV…nevermind the content: the underlying breakthrough here is that she got famous because of MySpace. She was a not-so-famous Playboy model until she was one of the first few hundred thousand people on MySpace and she posted a few scandalous pictures and invited a few thousand people to the site. According to Time, she gave the site the kick it needed to jump from obscurity to the ‘cool kids’ table’…and now she has over 2 million ‘friends’ on the site and markets her music to them, and sells it exclusive on iTunes. This makes her the first person ever to rise from total obscurity and establish a multimedia ‘empire’ via social networking tools. This is a big deal…but the only story that will be in the news is the show’s content.

• Facebook has finally gotten to making the application login page more user-friendly and less buggy by transforming it into an AJAX popup window: apprently this isnt widely launched yet, but it is coming down the pipeline.

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