Online social networks have their own cultures. Erica Naone of MIT Technology Review (TR) writes that social networking sites’ growth outside the U.S. has exploded recently, but different regions have adopted different sites as their favorites. I find it interesting how each site has developed and grown in its own way. The […]

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I’m bored with Google’s U.S. year-end “zeitgeists” (no surprise that Paris Hilton is still a top search term in 2007) — but there are still some interesting tidbits in Google’s monthly Zeitgeist Around the World, which lists the top-gaining search queries in various countries around the world.
The results can be quirky and interesting. For […]

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Archaeologists Billy Quinn and Declan Moore are getting a lot of press for their new theory about the famous burnt mounds of Ireland (there called the fulacht fiadh), which date back as far as 2500 BC.
Quinn believes the mounds may be the nation’s oldest breweries, designed in an age before metalworking allowed the creation of […]

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Ok, so you have been hearing for years that Korea’s population is the most Internet-connected in the world. And maybe you knew that Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Norway had caught up (at least in terms of penetration, if not blazing speed). And you probably knew that the United States lags many other […]

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