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College Football Recruiting via Twitter? Check Out DirectSnapThe bubble of American college football recruiting has few parallels in the sports universe. Millionaire coaches fervently woo teenage boys. Jobs, reputations and big-money contracts are on the line. Rabid fans pay for exclusive information from scouting services as the young players struggle to ... Google Science Fair 2012: Now More GlobalThe second annual online Google Science Fair competition is getting even more global this year, allowing teenagers between 13 and 18 to submit entries in 13 languages for projects that could make a practical difference in the lives of a group or community. Touted as the world’s largest online sci... Astronomers Discover Three Alien Planets Smaller Than EarthUsing the data from NASA’s Kepler mission, astronomers have found three alien planets smaller than Earth, orbiting a star much smaller than our Sun. The planets, which are orbiting a red dwarf star known as KOI-961, are 0.78, 0.73 and 0.57 times the diameter of Earth, making them the sma... Klout Founder Joe Fernandez Answers Your Questions [LIVE CHAT]Joe Fernandez is the founder and CEO of Klout. While his jaw was wired shut for nearly three months after surgery, Joe began to develop a deep fascination with the evolution of influence within the social web. The way individuals could instantly broadcast questions, opinions, and ideas to their tru... Indian Court to Facebook, Google: Censor Content or We Will Censor YouThe Delhi High Court has ordered Facebook India and Google India to find a way to remove objectionable content or the sites will face a blackout. Justice Suresh Kait warned that if the Internet giants cannot monitor their content, India will follow China’s censorship lead. “Like Ch... Bing Overtakes Yahoo as the Number Two Search Engine [STUDY]Microsoft’s Bing overtook Yahoo in market share in December for the first time, making Bing the number two search engine next to Google, according to comScore. The researcher found that Bing’s rise that month, to 15.1%, was due mostly to a 0.6% drop in Yahoo’s market share. The ... Girl Scout’s Call for Cookie Boycott Goes Viral. Is It Hate Speech? [VIDEO]In a recent video gaining traction on the web, a teenage Girl Scout calls for a boycott of their famous cookies after a 7-year-old transgendered girl was admitted into a Colorado Girl Scout troop. The 8-minute clip on YouTube has been viewed more than 134,000 times in a little more than 12 hours si... SOPA Sponsor Has a Copyright Violation of His OwnThe controversial SOPA bill is designed to combat online piracy and copyright violations. But now it turns out the bill’s author and main sponsor, Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, has some copyright problems of his own. Vice’s Jamie Lee Curtis Taete did some investigative research into whether... 10 Essential YouTube Tips and Tricks1. Get Social With Connected Sharing Options You can share YouTube content without hooking up your other social networking accounts, but if you do, the process gets all (buzzword alert!) "frictionless." As you upload, comment, favorite or like a video, these acti... Facebook Launches ‘Listen With,’ Lets You DJ for FriendsFacebook wants you to listen to music with friends — even if you’re not in the same room. The social network announced a new feature Thursday called “Listen With” that gives users a chatroom in which to share songs. They get to DJ the tunes they are streaming via services ... |