LinkedIn leapfrogged Myspace in June to become the second-largest social network in the United States in terms of traffic behind Facebook, says tracking firm comScore.LinkedIn had 33.9 million unique US visitors in June compared with 33.5 million for Myspace, which was sold last week by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.Twitter was next with 30.6 million unique US visitors in June, comScore said.Facebook was the runaway leader with 160.9 million unique US visitors during the month, according to comScore. Facebook co-founder Mark ...

The sudden demise of The News of the World newspaper was both shocking and exhilarating: That a 168-year old Sunday paper with more than 200 staff, selling almost three million copies a week, can be closed so suddenly is without precedence.The News of the World was the first newspaper I bought. I was about seven or eight years old and decided I needed to get serious about life and that I needed to know what was going on the world. ...

Named as one of the 25 most influential people on the web, Matt Mullenweg founded and runs an open source web platform that has revolutionised website publishing. WordPress began its life as free, open-source blogging software which quickly evolved into a general-purpose CMS used by millions of sites on the web. The success of WordPress speaks for itself -- and it is one of the most popular content management system engines around today, also used by many Fortune 500 companies.Mullenweg ...

We here at Memeburn know you our esteemed reader. Being the busy people you are we know that - try as you may, and as interested as you are — it’s not always possible to keep up with everything. In light of that, here's your weekly roundup of all the important — and at times not so important — tech and online news items from the week.With that special Memeburn spin you’ve come to enjoy…ChatRoullete for FacebookAfter promising an ...

The Playbook is many things to many people: an iPad competitor; a desperate attempt at relevancy; a RIM fanboy’s wet dream; just another tablet. Blackberry’s first foray into the tablet market comes some time after their competitors had flooded it. Can the QNX operating system make the Playbook a viable competitor to the iPads and Samsung Galaxy Tabs of this world? Can its other features make up for the paucity of apps on RIM’s app world? Roger Hislop tests this ...

For an industry focused on the future of information, the internet is surprisingly prone to old fashioned maladies such as superstition, rumour and wild speculation. We've heard the latest doomsday prediction before -- the World Wide Web is dying -- but there's never been much convincing evidence, until now.Ben Elowitz, a web entrepreneur, took usage statistics for the web and compared them to Facebook's usage numbers. The results are startling. While Facebook continues to grab an ever larger share ...

Review: The Toshiba Stor.E TV+ is a one or two terabyte external drive cum media centre. It’s got a clumsy name, it’s clumsily built, and clumsily supported. So at least Toshiba is consistent there. It would make a great story device for a Dilbert special – the grubby fingerprints of corporate politics are all over it.The base engineering work is absolutely fine. It’s solidly built, well specced, with some nice features. What is not fine is the user interface, the ...

At a recent digital marketing conference I attended, I heard one speaker talk about the irrelevancy of the 'long tail' and how concentrating on 'head' terms was the key to building an effective campaign using search. This couldn’t be further from the truth, but does qualify for some explanation.First, some facts from a Google presentation I got sent the other day:Some analysts have even gone as far as to say more than 1/3 of all the queries Google ...

Mere days after issuing an ultimatum to Visa and Mastercard to lift their seven-month ban on donating to Wikileaks, the whistle-blowing website has claimed victory.Datacell, the whistle-blower’s data hosting service provider in a statement announced that, "…we have observed that an alternative payment processor that we have contracted with, has in fact opened the gateway for payments [to WikiLeaks] with Visa and MasterCard". The statement also read, "We choose to interpret this as that Visa and Mastercard [have] in ...

Apple announced on Thursday that more than 15-billion applications for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch have been downloaded from its App Store since inception.The California based tech giant also said the App Store now carries more than 425,000 free and paid applications for the 200 million iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches in use worldwide. Over 100,000 applications have been developed for the iPad alone, Apple said."In just three years, the revolutionary App Store has grown to become the most ...