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… 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

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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,… Continue Reading