1 In his first “public” appearance after his reported suicide attempt, actor Owen Wilson was interviewed by director Wes Anderson on MySpace. Within minutes of the news coming out, Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters launched their own MySpace pages. Morley Safer has been there for years.
2 Microsoft paid $240 million for a tiny piece of Facebook. It was the most cost-effective way Bill Gates could come up with to acquire more friends.
3 The key to the Microsoft deal, though, was Facebook’s developers receiving a promise that they would never be forced to install Windows Vista.
4 Hulu, the YouTube competitor that will showcase series from NBC and Fox networks, finally went public this week, although only to people who had signed on for beta testing. It’ll be just like watching the shows on TV, but without the distractions of having a high-quality picture or other people around when you watch.
5 Apple released its latest and much-anticipated operating system, OS X Leopard. Taking its cues from past marketing strategy, the company plans to punish early adopters by dropping the price by 50 percent in a couple of months — and, as with iTunes, it will make users sit through a long upgrade process every two weeks or so.
