In just about every MySpace profile, there’s all sorts of information that advertisers would love to see.  Users don’t list their likes and dislikes with marketers in mind, however, and a MySpace exec has said that participation in the upcoming HyperTargeting program will be optional.

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Universal McCann’s Wave study tracks social media use, and the latest one (Wave 3) gathered information from 17,000 Internet users.  They indicated that some startling growth has taken place.

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A new initiative from Warner Bros. Television seeks an audience, and advertising revenue, from online broadcasts.

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VoIP service Jajah benefited from Yahoo’s strategic shift as the recipient of the outsourcing of Phone In and Phone Out premium voice services for Yahoo Messenger.

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Anecdotal evidence and personal experience are all well and good, especially where popularity contests are concerned.  Hard data works, too, though, and Hitwise’s Heather Hopkins has weighed in with stats on how Twitter is doing.

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Online music provider Project Playlist is being sued by nine major labels for "massive infringement" of their copyrights.

The web site allows users to play and share music with others for free. The site has a large index of songs users can search for recordings by their favorite artists. "At the click of a mouse," the lawsuit said, "Project Playlist instantly streams a digital performance of the selected recording to the user, who can listen to it on his or her computer or mobile device."

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Some interesting studies at Stanford are exploring how virtual avatars impact human behavior. If that sounds too academic, let me put it this way: how the digital version of you inspires or alters the perception of the real version of you.

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A—which adjective goes with this group…radical? Extremist? Keystone-Koppish?—12 Monkeys-esque environmental group called The Greenwash Guerillas have accused YouTube of censoring a video of them throwing pies at Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Friedman.

If you haven’t heard of New York Times columnist Friedman via his lengthy journalism career, you may have heard of him because of his book The World Is Flat, which got a lot of attention last year.

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