According to recent figures noted by Justin Smith at Inside Facebook (and supported by very similar figures posted at Adonomics), Slide, RockYou, and LinkedIn own the top four Facebook applications.

While Facebook seems to get more buzzworthy coverage, MySpace has managed to maintain its strong leadership position in the social networking realm.

According to both comScore qSearch and Nielsen Online, Google has maintained its lead in the U.S. search market in May 2008.

Mozilla promoted June 17th as “Download Day 2008,” asking supporters to help them set a new Guinness World Record by downloading its new Firefox 3.0 Web browser.

Tucked away under the “Terms of the Agreement” section of Yahoo! press release, announcing its search advertising partnership with Google, is this little gem: “In addition, Yahoo! and Google agreed to enable interoperability between their respective instant messaging services, bringing easier and broader communication to users.”

Google has displayed a virtually untouchable hold on the traditional, PC-based online search market, regardless of who you ask.

While the impending Top Affiliate Challenge is luring candidates with the promise of green and status, organizer Thor Schrock is seeing – and signing – NeverBlueAds and UniqueAds as affiliate network sponsors.

Leading interactive marketing agency adds Pep Boys, SourceMedia, NewsMarket, United Water, and Tablet Hotels to customer list

Media Breakaway, LLC, today announced that an Arbitrator has released a final ruling in the proceedings between MySpace, Inc. and Media Breakaway, which originated in January, 2007. The final award in favor of MySpace was 95% less than the amount demanded by MySpace, as the Arbitrator determined that “MySpace’s demands are so disproportionate to proven actual damages, or Media Breakaway profits.”

The US Presidential candidates take on increasingly difficult tasks with each passing day — but personally, I believe that the online publisher’s job is also among the toughest in the world.