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Sociable

You too can buy online popularity - but what’s it really worth?

With all the Internet metrics, it’s like my personality is a stock whose worth I'm constantly monitoring

Etiquette

The couple that tweets together, stays together

How some Web 2.0 couples make I Love Yous work in 140 characters or less

A screencapture of tktkt's 360Live app for the iPhone/iPod Touch
Apps We Love

An app to keep Xbox Live living

360 Live, and independently developed mobile app for the iPhone/iPod Touch, lets you connect with your buddies away from the console

The Nintendo Wii game Your Shape lets you see yourself working out onscreen beside an anatomically perfect virtual trainer.
Exer-gaming

Me and my (anatomically perfect) shadow

Your Shape game lets you and your avatar star alongside each other on your home TV

A scene from Bioshock 2, rated Mature: The original Big Daddy is back.

Gaming

Bioshock 2: Brainy and moving, with exemplary action

The very first Big Daddy is back and is on a mission to exert his free will

Live Better

How to break free and use data in the cloud

Our guide to your life: This week, four ways to take advantage of cloud-based computing for storing data

Computer whiz kid becomes Balkan celebrity at age 9

Without support, Marko Calasan doesn’t have much of a future in Macedonia

Study

Is blogging losing its lustre with youth?

Number of young bloggers in decline as communication habits change, Pew study finds

Dave McGinn's Mr. Miser

Why do phone companies not reward customer loyalty?

I figured I should be able to parlay my years of loyalty into a free iPhone. I was so wrong.

Education

Texting, Twitter contributing to students’ poor grammar skills, profs say

Almost one third of students taking Waterloo University’s English language skills exam fail

It's an iPad, get it?

The life and death of the iPad joke

Yes, the name does resemble a sanitary product. Apple’s new tablet showed how quickly a joke can die on the Internet

Apple tablet could write a new chapter for e-books

Rumoured iSlate could upend the fledgling e-reader industry the same way iPod redefined digital music

The friend test

Sorry, those Facebook friends aren’t really friends

Oxford researcher revisits landmark social research and finds 150 remains the limit for real relationships

Social spats

Parenting in public: Stop lecturing on my wall, Mom

Parents and kids need online boundaries

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Gadgets
Demos with depth

Consumer electronics company hopes success of 3-D in theatres carries over into the home

No cheap plastic glasses here: A Sony representative sports a set of active-shutter specs to view 3-D television.
Controller Freak
A BioShock 2 podcast party

The Games Day Podcast, a homebrew game show in London, Ontario, will give listeners a chance to feel like industry VIPs with a live broadcast from Digital Extremes' BioShock 2 launch party Tuesday night

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Gaming
Mass Effect 2 gives you hope for the future of gaming
(oh, and humanity, too)

3.5 Stars

Second entry in BioWare’s sci-fi saga has a narrative so complex, the game will prove unique to every player

Apps We Love
A Twitter app for nOObs

We also take a look at a search engine for Internet radio and a handy app that lets you compare two Photoshop files

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Viral
The iPad: Our shiny new ball and chain

Within a couple of months, there will be no physical position in which we won’t be able piss away time on the Internet

Gadgets
Review: EntouragePS keeps track of car and kid

Calgary-based GPS company’s tracking device turns you into part NSA agent, part digital Block Parent

Escort Entourage PS
An iPod dock George Forman would appreciate

Although it’s not the cheapest dock out there, nor the prettiest, Pioneer’s XW-NAS3 does audio (and video) well

Pioneer's XW-NAS3
Wunderkinder
Teen takeover:
From the blogs of babes

On the Internet, everyone's a critic. But why are so many so-called style authorities under the age of 20?

Tavi Gevinson has taken the fashion world by storm with her blog Style Rookie. The 13-year-old counts Rodarte designers Laura and Kate Mulleavy as fans, sits in the front row at fashion shows and has even contributed to Harper’s Bazaar.
Live Better
Four ways to free yourself from a cluttered inbox

Our guide to your life: this week, four tips on how to clean up your e-mail

Sociable
Tweets from the banks of hell

In Haiti, the smallest details make real the biggest stories

Gaming
Tetris passes 100 million paid mobile downloads

25-year-old time-waster is best selling mobile game of all time

Tetris is perhaps the world's most recognized video game.
Science
Story of Newton's encounter with apple goes online

Original manuscript detailing account of how scientist developed theory of gravity now widely available

In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, Royal Society librarian Keith Moore holds the manuscript of 'Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton' by William Stukeley, pointing to the word 'gravitation', in London. An 18th-century account of how a falling piece of fruit helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity is being posted to the Web on Monday, Jan. 18, 2010, making scans of the fragile paper manuscript widely available to the public for the first time. (AP Photo/Lucy Young)
Gadget
Peek into the future with HP’s TouchSmart

Even the pared down Canadian version, which lacks a few quality apps and features, gets better with every generation

Apps We Love
When your ears call for balance

A great app for podcasters who need a quick and easy fix to sound files that may need their audio levels tweaked