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Barack Obama has selected Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware to be his vice presidential running mate, multiple Democratic sources told the Associated Press. The Obama campaign says it plans to announce Biden as his vice presidential running mate in a text message Saturday morning. Obama is then expected to appear with his vice-presidential choice at an afternoon rally in Springfield, Illinois just before the Democratic Convention which kicks off on Monday in Denver.
Facebook remains the number one social networking site in the world, according to a new study released Tuesday. According to ComScore, Facebook has undergone 153 percent growth in the past year.
Interestingly, MySpace showed only three percent global growth, the lowest among the top seven sites profiled by ComScore. In the U.S., though, MySpace remains in first place, with Facebook second.
Facebook, which took the global lead among social networking sites in April 2008, has made a concerted effort to become more culturally relevant to markets outside of North America by launching several market-specific natural language interfaces.
As a result, while North America is still Facebook’s largest visitor base with 49 million users, the growth of 38% there was far lower than the 303% increase in Europe, the 1,055% increase in Latin America and the 403% jump in the Middle East and Africa.
“Facebook has done an exceptional job of leveraging its brand internationally during the past year,” added Jack Flanagan, ComScore executive vice president, in a statement. “By increasing the site’s relevance to local markets through local language interface translation, the site is now competing strongly or even capturing the lead in several markets where it had a relatively minor presence just a year ago.”
“MySpace was only able to 3% worldwide growth over the past year,” O’Neill added. “These statistics highlight the ongoing global competition for social network audiences”.
