In the world of demand-side ad networks, real-time bidding, and ad exchanges comes The Text Page, the first pay-per-character, text-only website. The Text Page features one page of multi-colored text that advertisers purchase for the low cost of $2 per character for a three year period. These characters link to advertiser websites and include company names, slogans, or catchy phrases that encourage the viewer to click on them.

The Text Page is the brainchild of Spyros Pyrgiotis, a 24-year-old Greek MBA student at Kingston University in London. Pyrgiotis, who has a background in sound engineering, sought funds to pay for his graduate degree. Finding a gap in advertising, he developed the first-ever all text advertising website. In a couple of months, Pyrgiotis has not only paid for school, he is on his way to becoming rich.

Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA) and Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) today announced that they are joining forces to make thousands of movies and TV episodes from Netflix available to be streamed instantly to TVs via the PlayStation®3 (PS3(TM)) computer entertainment system. Netflix expects to begin streaming via the PS3 system next month at no additional cost to Netflix members in the United States who have a PS3 system.

Today’s announcement pairs two of the most popular and fastest growing home entertainment brands in the U.S. The PS3 system’s installed base has reached close to 9 million units in the United States, and Netflix recently reported 11.1 million U.S. subscribers as of September 30.

MEDL Mobile, Inc. (http://www.medlmobile.com), the leader in mobile application development, has teamed with veteran game developer Sean Cooper (http://www.seantcooper.com) to release Boxhead: The Zombie Wars for the iPhone. With millions of fans and hundreds of millions of downloads worldwide, it’s one of the most popular casual games on the web - and it comes to the iPhone with new weapons and features to blast box-headed zombies into oblivion.

“The fans have been asking for a way to play Boxhead on their iPhones for a long time,” said Sean Cooper, the original creator of the Boxhead Series. “But I held out until we found a way to make the game feel native to the iPhone. We worked with the touch screen and the accelerometer to re-imagine the game on a brand new platform.”

ProCon.org, a nonpartisan 501(c)3 nonprofit public charity dedicated to promoting critical thinking, created the new website http://www.socialnetworking.procon.org to explore the core question “Are social networking sites good for our society?”

Social networking and blogging sites accounted for 17% (about one in every six minutes) of all time spent on the Internet in Aug. 2009, nearly three times as much as in 2008. The popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Classmates.com more than quadrupled from 2005 to 2009. As of Sep. 15, 2009, Facebook had 90 million users in the US and 300 million users worldwide.