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In the beginning, back in 1996, it was SixDegrees. Last year it was Friendster. Last week it was Orkut. Next week it could be Flickr. These websites, and dozens more, are designed to build networks of friends, and they are currently at the forefront of the trendiest internet development: social networking. These sites are spreading like a rash through the internet, but are they sustainable?
"Dude!" exclaimed last week's Fortune magazine cover, "Dell's No 1". The PC manufacturer named after its 40-year-old founder, Michael Dell, has become America's most admired company, ahead of General Electric, Starbucks and Wal-Mart.
Intel plans to leap ahead this year with a strategy based on its Core Solo and Core Duo processors, a new media PC platform called Viiv, and a new logo where the "Leap Ahead" tagline replaces "Intel Inside". That is the gist of the speech that Intel boss Paul Otellini will give later on Thursday on the first day of the giant Consumer Electronics Show.
In the early days of the web, sites measured attention by the number of hits they attracted. Today, companies such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon and eBay are interested in collecting much more specific data. The things to which you pay attention -- what you search for, the products you look at, the ads you click, what you buy -- provide a picture of who you are.
In the beginning, back in 1996, it was SixDegrees. Last year it was Friendster. Last week it was Orkut. Next week it could be Flickr. These websites, and dozens more, are designed to build networks of friends, and they are currently at the forefront of the trendiest internet development: social networking. These sites are spreading like a rash through the internet, but are they sustainable?
"Dude!" exclaimed last week's Fortune magazine cover, "Dell's No 1". The PC manufacturer named after its 40-year-old founder, Michael Dell, has become America's most admired company, ahead of General Electric, Starbucks and Wal-Mart.
Intel plans to leap ahead this year with a strategy based on its Core Solo and Core Duo processors, a new media PC platform called Viiv, and a new logo where the "Leap Ahead" tagline replaces "Intel Inside". That is the gist of the speech that Intel boss Paul Otellini will give later on Thursday on the first day of the giant Consumer Electronics Show.
In the early days of the web, sites measured attention by the number of hits they attracted. Today, companies such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon and eBay are interested in collecting much more specific data. The things to which you pay attention -- what you search for, the products you look at, the ads you click, what you buy -- provide a picture of who you are.
