In the wake of Hitwise's hailing of MySpace as the leading Web site, comScore has come out with its leading Web properties for June. Guess what? MySpace isn't first, it's fifth. Yahoo's sites lead the way with 128.6 million unique visitors in the U.S. (out of a total online population of 172.9 million) while MySpace lags with a still very impressive 52.3 million. Google's sites attracted 102.8 million visitors (fourth) while the New York Times was the leading "media" site with 38.1 million visitors (ninth). So what do the comScore numbers mean? It's like accounting or polls: you can presents things in a variety of ways if you use different tools, techniques or methodologies. There's no doubt MySpace is popular; it's just a question of defining it.

Not sure if Mark Cuban is still pissed the Dallas Mavericks choked during the NBA Finals but his post that the Internet is boring makes him sound like a grumpy old man. I'm not a multi-billionaire like Cuban who hit the entrepreneurial jackpot during the dot-com boom by selling by his start-up, Broadcast.com, to Yahoo but I've been on the Web since 1995, and it seems as interesting to me as ever. Cuban claims it's become a public utility but look at the progress that has been made in the past few years. We've gone from using dial-up to super-fast broadband; we've gone from a Web where you just received information to one where you can do thousands of things, whether it's banking, vacation planning, sharing photos or making donations. Cuban dismisses blogging but when was last time a mass communications tool with little or no barriers to entry hit the mainstream? Mark, it's a nice rant but you can't be totally serious to claim the Internet is more than "just a utility to deliver the digital bits" created by entrepreneurs or kids. To be honest, you need to step back from the fire and realize how many people have little clue about the Web's capability and power.
Update: Fred Wilson doesn't think the Internet is boring either.