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  • Oregon Trail & Carmen Sandiego coming to Facebook next month

    Until now, I have never been remotely interested in any Facebook game.  I don’t care about virtual farming or mob battles or any other kind of game on Facebook.  While I’m still not interested in those things, with this news, I might be interested in giving Facebook a shot as a gaming platform. Joystick is…

  • Global Geek News Podcast #94: The final show

    Here are the shownotes for episode #94 for the Global Geek News Podcast. Subscribe on iTunes Download the MP3 Help support us with a $5/mo subscription! Stories: Larry Page to replace Eric Schmidt as Google CEO Study confirms imminent death of the paper phone book Facebook and Twitter ‘make us less human and isolate us…

  • Global Geek News Podcast #93

    Here are the shownotes for episode #93 for the Global Geek News Podcast. Subscribe on iTunes Download the MP3 Help support us with a $5/mo subscription! Stories: Study:  As more people talk while driving, accidents are dropping 16% of AT&T customers ready to jump ship to Verizon after Verizon iPhone announcement Steve Jobs takes leave…

  • Stats for the Internet in 2010

    Image via Wikipedia A company called Pingdom has realeased some very impressive statistics for the state of the internet in 2010.  It is worth checking out all of the stats given in the previous link but here are some of the highlights that I found most interesting. 107 Trillion emails were sent in 2010, 89.1%…

  • Facebook passes 600 million active user mark

    Image via Wikipedia A couple of days ago, Goldman Sachs put $450 million into Facebook at a $50 billion valuation.  Now, being part owners of the massive social network, they have put an interesting number on paper for Goldman Sachs investors.  According to Business Insider, a new Goldman Sachs document for investors states that Facebook…

  • Record 750 Million photos posted to Facebook for New Years

    Image via Wikipedia Today, Facebook announced on its twitter account that a record 750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook during the New Years 2011 weekend.  That is a lot of pictures on a single social networking site!  Anybody with a guess how many pictures showed drunk people?  Anyway, that number is really impressive and…