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Not everyone is using the Internet. About 20% of the U.S. population has never sent an email or looked up information online according to a recent study by Parks Associates.

Age and education were significant factors cited in the study, which was conducted by researcher Parks Associates. Half of those who have never used e-mail are […]

Czech painter Jeremiah Palecek is now painting Internet memes. Featured below are his paintings of The Dramatic Chipmunk and the Star Wars Kid. You can see Palecek’s paintings on his blog here (via Boing Boing).

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Finally all those Internet memes will be honored with a convention. It’s the ROFLCon. We really needed this convention badly right? LOLCats just doesn’t get enough notice on the Internet. The Bosotn Herald says this lulz con is being held by MIT.

The best - and, well, the worst - of Internet culture will crawl out […]

Data from Comscore says video views soared over 66% in February over the year before. Comscore also says TV networks are starting to fight back with sights like Hulu.com. This is also what the writer’s strike was all about. Video is rapidly moving online and everybody wants a piece of the pie.

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Every social networking website you have used likely still retains the information you placed there even after you abandoned the website. For some the Friendster social network may be a website they used and abandoned years ago. Forbes explains.

You may have forgotten about Friendster, the once-booming social networking site that faded as American Web […]

Rickrolling was very big on April Fool’s Day. YouTube even rickrolled people who were clicking on its featured videos. For the very few who don’t know rickrolling is when someone tricks you into clicking on a link that takes you to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” music video. Astley told Web Scout […]

Adobe has launched a free web version of Photoshop - its popular photo-editing software - called Photoshop Express. Adobe was expected to make this move and some are saying the software wasn’t quite a feature-full as they would have liked but it is still Adobe-powered editing software. There is also concern about the TOS. […]

You can now add any place to Google Maps that does not already appear on the map. Suggestings from Google include “your favorite town square” or “little-known landmarks.” It is a pretty nifty feature especially if you trying to give someone directions. You have to logged in with Google to add a place. Here is […]

You can now add any place to Google Maps that does not already appear on the map. Suggestings from Google include “your favorite town square” or “little-known landmarks.” It is a pretty nifty feature especially if you trying to give someone directions. You have to logged in with Google to add a place. Here is […]

A new website called Topical allows users to create search engines that will search a small number of websites. People can also take advantage of the search engines that have already been created on the website. ReadWriteWeb reports that the site is using a Wikipedia-type model.

The service, which went live today, uses a model similar […]