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Google celebrates the 30th birthday of Pac-Man in true Google fashion, with a “Doodle.” This Doodle has a surprise. It is actually a playable Pac-Man game for one or two players. I wonder what they will do for my birthday.

Bebo, we hardly knew ye. Well, I hardly did. Bebo had a strong UK and Aussie following at the time of its sale to AOL for $850 million, but AOL wanted to use the social network to crack the US market. They failed to do so even with their strong messaging client aim and AOL execs announced plans to seek a buyer or close the site by the end of May.

5 Billion pieces of content were shared on Facebook per week during February, according to data released by the company. This is up big from 2 billion per week only five months ago in September 2009. Sharing tool, AddtoAny reports twice as much content shared on Facebook than E-mail by their users.

As Sarah Palin slams Family Guy for making a joke referencing the fact that her son has Down syndrome, the rockumentary Rudely Interrupted about a truly unique Australian indie rock band celebrates the achievement and relentless spirit of a group of friends with disabilities.

We have a lot of snow in DC. Yesterday I saw people in snow shoes walking own the street. The grocery stores are empty and I haven’t seen asphalt for at least a week now. Trying to dig yourself out of the snow mess can be a major challenge, so the good people at PICnet devised a smart way of using crowd sourcing to help Washingtonians beat the winter.

A tee from underground t-shirt website Threadless.com has raised over $90,000 for Haiti relief efforts according to the Threadless weekly video update. The Haiti tee was launched on Jan. 19 with the Creole phrase, “Men anpil chay pa lou” (Translation: “Many Hands Make the Load Lighter”). All proceeds from the $10 per shirt sales benefit the Red Cross.

By Kate Ausburn

On Tuesday January 12th, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake devastated the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The earthquake has destroyed the nations capital of Port-au-Prince including the Parliament building, the United Nations national headquarters, the hospital, the prison and many homes and businesses. Tens of thousands are dead and millions displaced in an event that United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has described as the worst humanitarian crisis in decades.

Photo by IFRC.

The United Nations, who lost 46 staff members in the earthquake and have hundreds more still missing, are …