Google is still searching for test cities for their new ultra-high-speed fiber optic internet service and to show how badly they want to be a test market, Topeka, Kansas mayor Bill Bunten today issued a proclamation naming the city “Google” for the month of March.

Now time-wasting 2.0 will be entering a Pentagon near you. The U.S. Department of Defense says that it is now OK with social networking services and other interactive Web 2.0 application. However, I don’t think that posting sensitive intelligence online is what they have in mind for use on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, blogs, and forums. “Commanders at all levels [...]

Facebook having won the patent on displaying a news feed of users’ actions in a social network. The biggest fear is  of the possibility that Facebook will try to keep all competition far behind with the threats of patent lawsuits. According to NY Breaking News in an e-mail a Facebook representative said, ” The launch of [...]

Facebook has been scouting out various locations for their new office and Texas wants their business. Governor Rick Perry announced in a Facebook note, that his state would be willing to provide Facebook with $1.4 million in incentives if their new office were to be opened in that state.

Facebook Credits will soon be coming to more Facebook App developers and now the social network has announced that 30% of those revenues from goods sold will be going back into the social networks pockets.

A three-year postal service investigation into a south Florida eBay seller who used the screen name “Jorge Carlos” among others resulted in a conviction in federal court for the man who scammed thousands of buyers on the online auction site. Earlier this month, Nilton Rossoni, 50, a Brazilian businessman with multiple aliases who had lived [...]

(Pictured above: A photoshopped scammy ad for a get-rich-quick-with-Google scheme which places a fake check in the hands of Seth Meyers from Saturday Night Live, on the set of the Weekend Update sketch.) Facebook Ads are fast becoming a “fail phenomenon” and source of tremendous amusement on the web. The ad service allows anybody with the [...]

A year after an impostor fooled the world into thinking the Dalai Lama was wired on Twitter, the real Dalai Lama has joined – and been verified by – the massive micro-blogging site. The as-yet fledgling account is mostly being used to post content from his existing web site, but it’s expected that he will tweet [...]