Web Two > Pick of the Orchard 9.22.06

[Media Orchard, by the Idea Grove] Yahoo "to buy Facebook for $1bn" (BBC News) Time Warner says YouTube, Facebook overvalued (Reuters) The Coming Dramatic Decline of YouTube (Mark...

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

[Technoogle.com] Technoogle: YouTube’s first partner for these channels will be Warner Brothers, as they will create the site’s first “brand channel” to promote Paris Hilton’s new music album.

[Brian.magierski.com] BKM Blog: The key questions are how much growth driven from beyond the core search engine is baked into Google's stock now, how much risk is there of the search franchise being compromised competitively, and how to factor in this issue of product management capability?

http://web2.commongate.com [Web2.commongate.com] Facebook: News Feed, Mini-Feed, , MySpace, Google, Feed, Microsoft ...: Colleges on YouTube allows students to share videos that can only be viewed by other college members.

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[the Onda] Caterina's Categories for Social Sites: Caterina Fake comes back from her travels and writes an incredibly thought-provoking post attempting to categorize the types of social sites out there, especially with respect to user growth metrics. In the post she argues for three categories: primarily social (MySpace, Facebook), rich content (Flickr, YouTube), and person to person (Y Photos,

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