This weekend I took some time off from the Web 2.0 echo-chamber to explore some more mainstream social software. My conclusions? MySpace is likely to be bigger and more influential than the blogosphere within a matter of months (if it isn’t already).

Now this is all pretty intuitive and I probably don’t need to explain it - simply put, the youth demographic consists of extremely sociable early adopters who remain constantly connected via cellphones and the Internet.*

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On a private mailing list for publishers, Peter Brantley pointed to Booksquare’s open letter to publishers, wondering why the heck they aren’t at SXSW in Austin? He quoted extensively from the open letter:

“South by Southwest, the interactive festival, is in full swing. […] Nay, many of the attendees at this year’s festival are already riding that wave that we call The Future.

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What is a feed?

A feed is a file format for sharing news, blog posts or other web content across websites. The site that makes its content available as a source of information is said to publish a feed, while the tools and sites that use that content are said to consume the feed.

myFeedz is both a feed consumer because it reads news and blogs from all over the internet and also a feed publisher because it provides feeds for all the lists displayed.

What is an RSS feed?

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