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Give it up, college students: Facebook is no longer the territory of the young. Time takes a look at all the reasons why the ‘net’s most popular social network is for the olds (”9. We don’t understand Twitter. Literally. It makes no sense to us.”).
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From our backwards-looking year-end perspective, 2008 looks like it was all elections, Olympics, financial crises and Jokers. Although the scientific community flew under the radar while entertainment, politics, and the economy fused into one giant, indistinguishable headline-multiplying beast, some important things were discovered by our test tube-toting, lab-coated friends this year.
Incapable of figuring them all [...]

One of the big year-end lists comes to us today from the rulers of all things online, Google, who released the findings of their annual search tabulations on their Google Zeitgeist 2008 site. The whole Googlegeist site is full of fascinating findings (like that New Zealanders are really into the new hadron collider or that [...]

Basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal has always packed an oversized personality into an oversized frame, incurring a bit of mockery along the way (see: MadTV’s cross-eyed parody, every reference ever to Kazaam). So when a Shaq impostor joined the social networking service Twitter, Kathleen Hessert of consulting firm Sports Media Challenge helped the Phoenix Suns [...]