Here's a number for anyone who still says only the young are on Facebook: According to new figures from ComScore Data Mine, the social network reaches 62% of online Americans, regardless of age. Simply put, that's a lot of eyeballs - in demographics that are all over the board. And, if you ...

The Associated Press and Gowalla have [launched a project][1] aimed at giving a university a $10,000 donation — and it could be Kansas University. The [Top 25 Gowalla Check-in Challenge][2] asks users to check in at any of the five designated Gowalla spots on campus. When you do, you ...

There are a million things that Twitter is great for: finding a lunch recommendation, finding a hairdresser, finding a lost pet. But just plain finding a user, or a business? Tough. Although Twitter's search is decidedly better than it was, say, a year and a half ago - particularly if you take ...

Once again, it's been a roller coaster of a week for Facebook. More announcements, more rumors, more speculation on what this latest set of changes to the world's largest social networking site will mean in the long run - both in terms of user experience and in terms of what those of use who ...

Breathe easy, folks - Gapgate is officially over. By now, we've all probably seen the new Gap logo - introduced on the clothing retailer's [Web site][1] last week without much (read: any) fanfare - but it's still not clear whether the botched rebrand was a fake, a fail, a bad idea or a ...

Our cats tweet. Our plants tweet. And, with today's economy being what it is, our houses apparently tweet, too - at least when they're looking for new owners. Having just played the real estate game myself, I've spent a (perhaps unhealthy) quantity of time recently looking at local homes on ...