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Ordinary people and small businesses using Facebook are going to have to come to grips with two new terms after the big announcements Mark Zuckerberg made today at f8 , the Facebook Developer conference. The first is "self-expression," which means your friends will know a lot more about what you read, what music you listen to, and even what you cook. The second is "serendipity," which means if you see a friend of yours has watched a movie on Netflix, you can click on that app in your timeline and begin watching it immediately from within the app.

Users can now get music, movies, and more right from their new Timeline-enabled profile pages.

If you're ready to throw in the towel on Twitter, take a closer look at what you'll be missing out on. The other day a friend who is trying to establish herself on Twitter told me that she was giving up. She just doesn’t get it and doesn’t know what to say, she told me

Twitter users have shorter relationships. iPhone owners have more sex. And Big Macs cost 50 percent more in Brazil than in the U.S., but are much less in India

Today Adobe is launching a public preview of Edge, its tool for web designers that allows moving, interactive graphics on a website using HTML5, not Flash.

What the heck is Mirosoft's "Tulalip," and what exactly is it going to be capable of? Its code name is "Tulalip," and according to a green splash page that has since disappeared from a Microsoft-owned Web address ( www.soci.com ), Tulalip is some sort of yet to be fully defined "social search" hybrid that is part application, part search engine. Again according to the disappearing splash page (which, don't worry, lives on in screen grabs republished all over the Web), the whatever-it-is would allow users to: Read Tweets from your timeline.See who you follow and follow new people.Update your profile.Post Tweets for you

Hosting an event can easily cost companies thousands, even millions of dollars—and the bills rack up fast.

Apple's due to reveal all in its second-quarter call tonight at 5 p.m. EDT. The statistics will be telling, since they encompass the Verizon iPhone and the iPad 2's early sales