Roundup: Facebook users triple in Japan, MySpace selects citizen journalists and more

Roundup: Facebook users triple in Japan, MySpace selects citizen journalists and more

Here’s the latest action:

ComScore: Facebook users triple in Japan during the last year
– But Mixi.jp is still number one, with 12.7 million visitors compared to Facebook’s 538,000.

MySpace and NBC select citizen journalists — They’ve chosen Matt Britten and Sara Pat Badgley to cover the Democratic and Republican Conventions, respectively, as part of the companies’ Decision08 contest. Britten and Badgley’s videos and blog posts will appear on MySpace, and possibly on the MSNBC TV channel and… Continue Reading

Roundup: Amazon Web services go down, MySpace to join OpenID and more

Roundup: Amazon Web services go down, MySpace to join OpenID and more

Here’s the latest action:

Amazon Web services go down over the weekend — The problems crippled messaging service Twitter and many other sites.

MySpace to join OpenID? — TechCrunch’s sources say the social networking site will join the OpenID initiative, which allows one login to work across multiple sites, later this week. If so, it would be the second-largest OpenID implementation ever, second only to Yahoo.

The New York Times and LinkedIn forge a content partnership — Users of the business-oriented… Continue Reading