The Pentagon has opened up a new line of demarcation in an Information War, and U.S. troops and their families may be caught in the digital crossfire.
The Defense Department has announced it will begin blocking access on its computers and networks “worldwide” to YouTube, MySpace and 11 other popular Web sites, according to a memo sent Friday by Gen. B.B. Bell, the U.S. Forces Korea commander.
Facebook, which has enjoyed explosive growth relative to rival social networking sites since a membership crisis six months ago, is set to unveil new features on Wednesday that mark its progress from a dating site for college kids into a mainstream network tool.
Social network website such as Bebo, MySpace, Friendster, MyYearBook, Classmates.com, LiveJournal, Xanga, Facebook, Hi5, Joga Bonito, MSN Spaces, Orkut, Yahoo! 360� and growing list of the social networking sites, has increasingly popular and becoming influential part of contemporary pop culture. MySpace, according to Hitwise, has even become the most visited website if counted by page-views in the United States, edging Yahoo! Mail and Google.
Online video services such as YouTube and Joost are pushing internet capacity to breaking point, a top Google executive has warned.
Vincent Dureau, head of TV technology at Google, said that the web will soon struggle to meet rising demand for high-quality online video.
The search giant paid $1.65bn for YouTube last year.
