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Loaded: 15 minutes of fame

2010-12-09
it's Friday December 10th I'm Natali Morris coming to you from San Francisco this week it's time to get loaded the fastest-rising term in Google this year was chat roulette meaning that the video chatting site that leaned towards the perverted was very popular this year tisk tisk google released its 2010 zeitgeist with the fastest growing and most popular terms of the year and it's no surprise that justin bieber and katy perry are both on that list and you are no longer limited to 15 minutes of fame at least not on youtube the video sharing site has started to allow uploads that are longer than 15 minutes which used to be the max not everyone can do this yet only a select set of users with good standing with YouTube yahoo has revamped its local pages these are its yellow page type listings the new pages include local news articles pertaining to a given location plus deals and events the new pages are only available in 30 markets to start and you may feel like everyone and their mother is on Twitter but that's actually not true a new pew research study shows that only eight percent of online Americans are on Twitter people aged 18 to 29 are more likely to be on Twitter and minorities are also twice as likely as White's to be users it's also interesting what is being posted seventy-two percent of users post about their personal lives sixty-two percent post about their job fifty-five percent post links to news stories and fifty-three percent like to retweet and finally the king of all media Howard Stern announced on Thursday that he will resign with sirius satellite radio for another five years not only that he will now be included in serious mobile apps where he had previously been absent stern's first contract expired this month and he had hinted about going to a new medium but in the end he will not he will stay put in satellite radio those are your headlines for today and that wraps up your week of getting loaded I will see you back in New York monday have a great weekend I'm Natali Morris for cnet.com and you've just been loaded
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