You know those engineer elves at Google like to do things their own way. That build-it-better ethic also applies to Christmas toys. If you click on the Christmas Doodle on Google’s main search page, you will see the five images below, which shows what I can only assume is one of Google’s older [...]

Editor’s note: The poem and illustrations below were submitted by an engineer in Silicon Valley who works for a big company and wishes to remain anonymous. The views expressed are not (necessarily) those of TechCrunch. The awesome illustrations are by Doug Shannon

Every geek
Down in Geek-ville
Liked searching a lot …
But Bill Gates,
Who lived just north [...]

On December 25th, the now famous Shiba Inu Puppies will take their final bow and vanish from the Internet. I know that there will be collective weeping over this devastating loss to the Internet, especially as we try to find ways to fill in large, tedious chunks of holiday time.
But never fear! Mashable’s [...]

Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog.
Brand monitoring has become an essential task for any individual or corporation. Years ago, when people talked about our brands, it was behind our backs and we almost never found out [...]

Want to see if your friends, family, or colleagues are on Twitter? Now you can through the microblogging tool’s re-launched people search, which lets you query the service by username or first/last name to find other users. The feature had been taken down earlier this year when Twitter was experiencing significant downtime issues. [...]

Video search on YouTube accounts for a quarter of all Google search queries in the U.S., according to the latest search engine numbers from comScore. Its monthly qSearch report, which was released on Thursday night, breaks out the number of searches conducted on YouTube. If it were a standalone site, YouTube would be [...]

Today Yahoo announced the purchase of 30% of the shares of an Indian telephone information service called Network Management
Company. The size of the investment wasn’t disclosed, although Yahoo will take a board seat.
I’m sure Yahoo has great reasons for the investment, but this seems like a bit of a side show. Their core U.S. business [...]

According to the latest government data, China now has 253 million Internet users, due to recent sharp growth - 56 percent from last year. The inevitable has happened: China now has more Internet users than the USA, which is at 223.1 million with 71% online penetration. The fact that the Chinese government is exercising very [...]

Qui Diaz is director of strategy at Livingston Communications and specializes in social media for social causes. She proclaims ‘the good’ on her blog, Evange.List.
As the economy goes, so goes giving to causes that need donor dollars to keep doors open. While we bemoan sacrifices of luxury goods, our global social sector is faced [...]

Running a streaming video site isn’t cheap. Yahoo realized this and shutdown its Yahoo Live service, while YouTube’s lack of profitability is the constant ire of many. Stickam has apparently taken note, and is launching an API that enables other websites to utilize its service to add live streaming video.
Sites that implement the [...]