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Exclusive Facebook Photos: Inside the Brain of the Social Network
TIME magazine recently named Mark Zuckerberg the second-youngest “Person of the Year” in the publication’s history. As part of the POY coverage, our colleagues were allowed into the brain of Facebook.
World Domination and Beyond: Google Sends New Phones to Space
Because Google has pretty much already dominated Earth, they’ve decided to move on up. Way up.
Meet Lillian Lowe, the World’s Oldest Facebook User
A 103-year-old Welsh woman logs onto Facebook regularly, and get this, she does so from an iPad!
Culturomics: Google Tracks Culture Trends Through Books
Want to know if the Beatles really were bigger than Jesus? Then head over to the Google Books NGram Viewer.
What Were the Most Retweeted Tweets of 2010?
The winner received Twitter’s first-ever Golden Tweet award. But who won and for what message of no more than 140 characters?
Cuba Launches Its Own Version of Wikipedia
We’d love to give you a deep analysis of its entries, but the site immediately crashed Wednesday.
Julian Assange Granted Bail By U.K. Court
The decision to release Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was upheld by a senior court judge Thursday pending his extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations.
Jeopardy!: I’ll Take Man Vs. Machine for $200, Alex
The world’s greatest game-show gets set to pit man against machine. It’s not too much of an understatement to claim that the very future of humanity rests on the result. (via Techland)
The Top Facebook Status Trends Of 2010: All About Slang
Natural disasters and pop music had Facebook users talking, but this year: Get ready for a vocabulary lesson.
Tracking Facebook Friendships Creates a Stunning Global Map
Paul Butler, a Facebook engineering intern, transformed social data into a stunningly beautiful visual that outlines the geographical borders of Facebook friendships.
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Granted Bail in London
After being held for a week in a British prison cell, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was freed on bail Tuesday at a court appearance in London where he sought to fight his extradition to Sweden in an alleged sex-crimes …