<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/682050f3-9543-408b-90e2-ae577d885010/A33D697C-46EA-4FEB-8356-56A7367292D9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/boomers-network-online-and-stream-video-ripe-for-web-entertainment-6134/npd-boomers-social-networking-visits-friends-september-2008jpg/" href="http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/boomers-network-online-and-stream-video-ripe-for-web-entertainment-6134/npd-boomers-social-networking-visits-friends-september-2008jpg/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.marketingcharts.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/boomers-network-online-and-stream-video-ripe-for-web-entertainment-6134/npd-boomers-social-networking-visits-friends-september-2008jpg/"><H2><A rev="attachment" href="http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/boomers-network-online-and-stream-video-ripe-for-web-entertainment-6134/">Boomers Network Online and Stream Video, Ripe for Web Entertainment</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/boomers-network-online-and-stream-video-ripe-for-web-entertainment-6134/npd-boomers-social-networking-visits-friends-september-2008jpg/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.marketingcharts.com/img/FE1506C1-EEEB-431F-ADF6-DF1E53B38EE5" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/boomers-network-online-and-stream-video-ripe-for-web-entertainment-6134/npd-boomers-social-networking-visits-friends-september-2008jpg/"><P>A majority (61%) of Baby Boomer internet users in the US have visited sites that offer streaming or downloadable video, while 41% have visited online social networks, <A href="http://www.npd.com/press/releases/press_080909.html">according to</A> a report from <A href="http://www.npd.com">The NPD Group</A>. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/boomers-network-online-and-stream-video-ripe-for-web-entertainment-6134/npd-boomers-social-networking-visits-friends-september-2008jpg/"><P>Those figures show significant usage of online entertainment media among Boomers and make them a key demographic segment for more digital products and marketing, NPD said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/boomers-network-online-and-stream-video-ripe-for-web-entertainment-6134/npd-boomers-social-networking-visits-friends-september-2008jpg/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">More than half of all web users (57%) visited a social-networking site, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, or MySpace, in past three months:</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/boomers-network-online-and-stream-video-ripe-for-web-entertainment-6134/npd-boomers-social-networking-visits-friends-september-2008jpg/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.marketingcharts.com/img/5C4AE039-E17C-4298-9742-D41B2AC3D4C0" alt="npd-boomers-social-networking-visits-friends-september-2008.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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