Facebook vs MySpace

5:45 PM -- Today on Contentinople:

• Facebook became the seventh most popular Web property in the world last month -- behind eBay, Wikipedia, AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google -- when it attracted 221.8 million unique visitors, according to a new comScore report. Meanwhile MySpace was stuck at No. 10, with 172.8 million unique visitors in December.
  
  
• Google reportedly has a plan to share advertising revenues from video on YouTube with the owners of the content -- even if they are not the ones who uploaded the video -- using its Content ID system.
  
  

And in today's News Bits, Google's fourth-quarter earnings fell 68 percent, leading some to wonder if layoffs are on the way.

— The Staff, Contentinople