As you probably know by now, Twitter is celebrating its 5th birthday.  With the service now averaging about a billion tweets per week, one could say that growth is not a problem.  But for those not yet bound in the …

It’s hard to imagine we’ve had Twitter for only five years. The social networking platform has certainly changed the way we communicate, specifically the speed of communication. While it has advanced so much, it also has been chided as being …

As part of the official 50th anniversary of the Anne Frank House, LBi Lost Boys and Anne Frank House have developed a 3D version of the house at Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam where Anne and her family lived in hiding for two years during the Second World War.

Some companies don’t celebrate anniversaries.  Some merely put a few grocery-store cupcakes near the water cooler.  But Google knows how to handle an anniversary – the search giant recently made a big cake and opened a new office in Fremont, Washington.

Sure, there are privacy issues.  And yes, the company sometimes looks like a monopoly.  But it has now made a cake weighing at least 125 pounds, which leads me to ask: how can you not love Google?

I was in the UK at the weekend to organize a couple of things re my move there next week.

The inaugural Y Design Awards 2006, launched as part of the London Design Festival, will take submissions until September 6th.

Flash technology has moved from an illustrator program for Tablet PCs to being the most popular way to embed audio and video content on the World Wide Web; it may be on the way to bringing an end to the Ajax phenomenon that has pervaded throughout numerous recent Internet startups.

Wow, talk about your tasteless Google Maps Mashups:

The news aggregator with a heavy personalization edge has been around for two years, seeing significant growth in traffic and viewed hits each quarter.

Special activities at the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA to include shuttle crew.

Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of when the first McDonald’s was opened in Des Plaines, Illinois by Ray Kroc.

It has been a year since Janet Jackson revealed one of her breasts on live TV during the Super Bowl half time show … and which subsequently caused the World to go nuts.

The Lycos 50 Looks Back at How Web Search Activity Has Changed Over the Past Five Years; Most-Searched Events and Items from Sept. 1999 Through Today.