The Muxtape format has gained serious hipster cred from the site’s initial burst of popularity, but there’s a problem: bands already have MySpace profiles, as well as iLike concert listings, and they can upload their music to Imeem.
Soon, Ouelette said, Muxtape will return as “an extremely powerful platform with unheard-of simplicity for artists to [...]

The vast majority of Facebook gifts are bought from the first screen of gifts in the directory–almost 80 percent of the total sales come from the group of the first 20 gifts. This points to the self-reinforcing nature of popularity (the crowdiness of crowds rather than the wisdom of crowds) when popularity data is made [...]