June 13, 2006
At the second annual Global Internet Summit, sponsored by Piper Jaffray, Safa Rashtchy, senior analyst at the firm, is the latest cheerleader-in-chief for social net. Space.com, he gushed, is “poised to shape the net’s future.”
Growth opportunities within the market will be for niche communities targeted at middle-age or young Web surfers, Rashtchy said. CNET reports that a host of family social-networking sites have cropped up already, including minto.com, Ourstory.com, Zamily.com, Amiglia.com, Families.com, Famoodle.com, Jotspot Family Site, Cingo.com, FamilyRoutes.com and Famundo.com. Even Martha Stewart plans to introduce a similar social network for women to swap recipes and advice.
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Right, TriBeCa, or the Triangle Below Canal, formerly an enclave for artists, is now metamorphosed into New York’s most family-friendly neighborhood, according to New York Sun.
While some die-hard fans of TriBurBia think there’s a “total absence, right now, of pretension, of showiness, of gaudiness that’s associated with uptown living,” and social ambitions may dissipate south of Canal, it’s by no means an affordable place for every Joe. A ranking from Forbes magazine shows median home sales topping $1.8 million and $1.6 million in TriBeCa’s 10013 and 10007 zip codes. The demographic shift is a boon for business. The neighborhood’s crowded Food Emporium grocery store will soon compete with a Whole Foods Market slated to open alongside a Barnes & Noble bookstore at the base of a 420-unit condominium complex on Warren Street.
Or soon TriBurBia will live up to its name, a characteristically American suburbia. TriBeCa is dead. Long live TriBeCa.
Apparently a transplanted London reporter thinks so.
Bridget Harrison, former dating columnist for the New York Post, in her recently released memoir, “Tabloid Love: Looking for Mr. Right in all the wrong places,” dishes dirt on the city she loves to hate. Snippets of her insight:
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