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Microsoft Names Most Popular “How To” Searches Of ’08

Like it or not, we're now 35 days into 2009, and textbook writers are probably already trying to compose a few paragraphs about last year for the overpriced latest versions.  Microsoft may want to help, as it's just released a list of the top "how to" queries of 2008. 

Facebook Marks Five Years

Facebook is celebrating its 5th birthday today and the social networking site now boasts more than 150 million users globally. In a blog post, founder Mark Zuckerberg reflects on the last five years. "Facebook was founded in 2004 to give people the tools to engage and understand the world around them. We are glad and humbled that so many people are using Facebook in this…

Microsoft Virtual Earth Gets Massive Imagery Update

Earlier this week, Al Gore, Jimmy Buffet, and a famous oceanographer came together to announce a Google Earth update.  Don't look for the same level of hubbub here, but Microsoft's now taking its own impressive step in this area by releasing about 100 terabytes' worth of Virtual Earth imagery.

Interview with Muxtape CEO Justin Ouellette

Muxtape has been known in the past as a place where music lovers could create their own playlists of songs and share them with others like an old school mix-tape. Last summer, it was shut down after legal issues with the RIAA.

Is It Time For Facebook To Sell Out?

Methinks the Telegraph was hoping to spark controversy when they published this article yesterday: Facebook is planning to exploit the vast amount of personal information it holds on its 150m members by creating one of the world’s largest market research databases.