links for 2007-07-26

by Rachel on July 26th, 2007

Responding to Responses to: “Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace”

danah boyd and more on American class divisions. She calls notice to marketers who used her original essay as a reason to shift spend from MySpace to Facebook!

(tags: Marketing essay research)
MySpace Banning Sex Offenders: Online Predator Paranoia at Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth)

A fatual look at the bannning of 29000 ’sex offenders’ from mySpace. How ’safe’ are social networks,

(tags: privacy myspace culture security)
‘Think of the children’. Yes, but also think about the journalism. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos

(tags: privacy myspace security)
BBC iPlayer launch: The first 14 days - currybetdotnet - 17 July, 2007

How the first 14 days after the iPlayer launches may play out. the IPlayer, a BBC PC client to allow programmes to be downloaded has been criticised for being only Windows, for having MS DRM and for limiting features. These restrictions were imposed by

(tags: bbc iplayer drm humour)
Keith Stuart: Just who is playing who in ARGs? | Technology | The Guardian

Guardian piece about use of ARGs by companies to promote themselves

(tags: args games Marketing)

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