Some surprising data: Blackberry users are big MySpace fans: 400,000 downloaded the MySpace app last week.

WebVisible, which provides tools to manage ad campaigns for local businesses, has acquired search marketer Adapt Technologies.

Media Swiss Group, operator of a number of classified platforms and since December 2007 80%-owned by Switzerland’s biggest media group Ringier, is about to expand into Serbia.

Facebook has quietly launched a new feature that has the potential to significantly increase the amount of page rank that Google uses to track Web site, potentially resulting in much higher placement during searches on Google for Facebook members.

King Features is launching Comics Kingdom, an ad-driven portal for local newspaper Web sites.

When did Yahoo start to go wrong? It wasn’t just the current economy or the failed Microsoft acquisition bid. One ad exec pins the blame on two key hires in 2001.

Interesting article on Media Post yesterday about where video is going on the Web. If you think it’s all about watching the next episode of “Lost” or “The Office” online, think again. Newspapers and other media organizations need to pay attention too, both for advertising and content delivery, writes Dave Dutch.

"We are still in the early stages of this shift from static text and graphics to a more dynamic, visually compelling medium,” Dutch says, “but…

Twitter too chaotic for you? Try Twingr, kind of a “Ning for micro-blogging.”

Marketing execs: Yahoo’s not so bad after all.

The Wall Street Journal, one of the last remaining online newspapers that still puts some content behind a paid subscription wall, may be adding even more premium services.

Lee Enterprises has posted big declines for classified advertising, including online revenues.

Canadian publisher and broadcaster Canwest Global has taken a whopping $1.01-billion write down on its Canadian television operations, citing dire expectations for advertising revenues to come. The loss reversed a year-earlier profit of $197 million.

YouTube members can now buy keywords to place paid links on YouTube videos or channel pages.

Facebook is the social media site of choice for online retailer in the U.S., according to an August 2008 study. But its share of online display ad views is much lower.

Kerry Oslund has been named vice president of digital media at Schurz Communications of South Bend, Indiana.

Vivian Schiller, the head of NYTimes.com’s digital efforts, has left the company to join NPR as its new CEO.

In The Tribune Company’s Q3 2008 earnings results, classified advertising revenues declined 30 percent, or $58 million, for the quarter. Real estate revenues fell by 44 percent, help wanted revenues declined 37 percent, and auto revenues were down 11 percent.

MySpace COO Amit Kapur announced on Friday at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco that his company was working on a payments and virtual gift system that MySpace developers will be able to add to their apps. Facebook is working on the same thing. Who will get there first?

Denmark’s QXL auction site gets a face lift.

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Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that YouTube will launch live streaming at its November 22 “YouTube Live!” event. That would put YouTube in competition with already existing live streaming sites UStream, Justin.TV, Stickam and Mogulus.

Nevertheless, the question remains: why? Live streaming is both very expensive and hard to monetize. Yahoo just shut its…