Loving Links

1. Techcrunch – MySpace Likely To Open Platform To 3rd Party Developers

2. Mashable – LinkedIn Launches Basic Facebook Application

3. BBC News – Social sites battle for new users

4. Netimperative – 60% of Europeans adopt ‘social computing’

5. Mashable – 6 Key Ways to Measure Your Blog’s Success

6. Mashable – MySpaceTV: MeTooTube is Here

7. Mashable – YouTube Still On Top, and Google’s Keeping It There

8. Mashable – Video Toolbox: 150+ Online Video Tools and Resources

9. The Guardian – The class divide between Facebook and MySpace

10. Mashable – Analytics Toolbox: 50+ Ways to Track Website Traffic

11. PR Blogger – webitpr launches version of the Social Media News Release

The effect of social networks

If ever there was an image of the effect of social networks, this graph is it. This is Friends Reunited’s traffic over the last year.  It really did miss an opportunity didn’t it?

America, f**k yeah

Why am I watching at the moment you might ask? Well you probably aren’t going to but I’m going to give you the answer nonetheless.

The Unit is an awesome TV series from CBS about a Delta Force unit. The show is full of propaganda, i.e. the US saves the world, the rest of the world is bad, Christianity is good etc etc. But leaving that all behind, it is a great show…think of it as a cross between The A Team and 24…now that must be good.

Go and watch.

Interesting opinions

As the polls suggest the political landscape is constantly changing. As a result I personally think we are getting some really fascinating viewpoints on what is currently going on. Here are just a few I’d like to highlight…

1. Iain Dale’s Diary -  Why I Tire of Portillo’s Bitterness. This has a really intriguing debate attached, I’m stuck  in two minds

2. Guardian Comment is Free – Will Gordon let her speak? Polly Toynbee on a potential new direction for GB and the Labour Party

3. Times Online – A huge strategic blunder? Daniel Finkelstein on the fact that we can’t read too much into the poles and that Brown has failed to do the right thing regarding Europe

Rocking Glastonbury

I spent much of the weekend watching Glastonbury on the TV, well done the beeb for such great coverage. Stephen Pollard has had an interesting viewpoint on the event, apparently it is a celebration of all that is wrong. Personally I don’t like to read too much into these things, I just think it is a great celebration of music. And I can join in the celebrations all from the comfort of my living room. Apart from the obvious highlights I now have the following on my playlist:

The View
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Mumm-Ra
Gogol Bordello
Jack Penate

Any other suggestions are welcome.