NY Times: MySpace No Longer Their Space?

When News Corporation bought MySpace, the site was at the height of its popularity. But now it looks like the teenagers who made MySpace cool may be moving on.

…but even teenagers can be put off by unbidden music suddenly blaring from their computers, or by page backgrounds that make the text impossible to read. The business writer Nicholas Carr, in his Rough Type blog, cites an article in The Wichita Eagle with the headline: “For Teens, MySpace.com Is Just So Last Year.” The article says Bebo.com, a site aimed at high school and college students, is an up-and-comer, thanks partly to its simple interface. “The young are capricious,” Mr. Carr wrote, “particularly when it comes to the places where they hang out. Trying to hold them in one spot is like trying to hold water in your hands.”INFURIATING PACKAGES Packaging is one of the most fearsome weapons corporate America employs in its war against its own customers. The packaging for small consumer-electronics products can be downright dangerous.An article in Wired News this week assesses the damage, including accounts of people injuring themselves on the plastic shards that are created when people try to get to their…

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