links for 2006-05-31

• Financial Times: Social sites
  The FT reviews the biggest social websites, including MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Orkut and Friendster.
• BusinessWeek: They Want Their Net TV
  Consumers are getting much more video entertainment online. And that’s putting big pressure on cable, telecom, and satellite companies to step up to the plate.
• Financial Times: Old media to embrace internet upstarts
  High-level media and advertising executives are to meet for a brainstorming session aimed at capitalising on the surging popularity of social networking websites. McKinsey, the management consultancy, is understood to have invited the executives.
• Social networking sites enjoy ‘explosive growth’
  The latest figures released by Nielsen//NetRatings show the top ten social networking sites in the US have increased from a unique audience of 46.8 million last year to 68.8 million in April 2006, led by MySpace.