Yahoo Buzz presented Yahoo! Top 10 Searches for 2008 and guess who’s at the pinnacle? It’s no other than Britney Spears. It’s not surprising even though Yahoo mentioned that the data have excluded navigational searches.

The Top 10 Searches in 2008 on Yahoo! are:

1. Britney Spears
2. WWE
3. Barack Obama
4. Miley Cyrus
5. RuneScape
6. Jessica Alba
7. Naruto
8. Lindsay Lohan
9. Angelina Jolie
10. American Idol

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(Source: MTTS)

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Mashable’s 2nd Annual Open Web Awards begins its round 1 of voting today. Let your voice be heard about your favorites by voting on the widget below.

Voting is open from today, November 19th until Sunday, November 30th at 11:59 pm. So if you are going to cast your vote, please let me know you voted by leaving a comment.

Click here to vote (new window will open)

Don’t forget to read the rules and check out the timeline.

If you can’t see the widget from your RSS feeds, open up this page.

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Now, you can search for millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most of these photographs were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

You can also add “source:life” to any Google image search to search only the LIFE photo archive, i.e. movie source:life.

Below are some samples you can get from LIFE photo archive.

Marilyn Monroe

Elvis Presley

Neil Armstrong

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Miley Cyrus death hoax spreads after her YouTube account is allegedly hacked. Earlier this year, Cyrus’ racy photos scandal dominated the Internet headlines.

On Sunday, the teen star was the victim of a more malicious attack that claimed she had been killed by a drunk driver. This is also the second time this year the rumor of the "Hannah Montana" star death has publicized.

A two-minute video was featured on Cyrus’ "Miley and Mandy Show" YouTube page that opened with the sounds of Cyrus’ sentimental new ballad, "Goodbye," and a somber message from Mandy Jiroux early Sunday morning. The video has since been taken down, but it’s still available on Videogum.com.

The video features a note supposedly from Cyrus’ friend which says, "Hey, guys, this is Mandy and I have some very sad news :( …We’re very hurt to tell everyone this, but Miley died this morning after being hit by a drunk driver. Miley told us if anything ever happened to her, then we should let her fans know before the public…R.I.P. honey, we will miss you so much."

We will miss her. Indeed.

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PhotoFunia as the name says is fun and quite addictive. PhotoFunia is a web site that lets you transform you or your friends and family into something great — be it an astronaut, Marilyn Monroe, Mona Lisa, Superman, Jedi, etc. With over 70 effects to choose from, there should be endless hours of fun.

It uses face detection technology and all you need is a photo with well lit frontal face (i.e. your passport photo).

Pirates of the Caribbean

Mona Lisa

Portrait

Jedi

Have fun! Visit www.photofunia.com.

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Google has announced on its YouTube blog that it will begin offering full-length TV episodes, including classic shows such as "MacGyver" and "Beverly Hills: 90120" and newer shows such as "Dexter" and "Californication" through its YouTube platform beginning this week.

The videos will be free to YouTube users but will have advertisement before, during and after the episode, similar to rival video site Hulu which promotes NBC Universal content.

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Happy 10th birthday, Google! Google commemorates its 10th birthday with a special Google logo.

That’s not all, check out what happened in Google in the past ten years.

Also, don’t forget to check out Project 10^100, Google’s USD $10 million dollar contest.

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OneWebDay (OWD), held on September 22 every year is like an Earth Day for the Internet. The brainchild behind OWD is Susan Crawford, a law professor at the University of Michigan. OWD’s objective is to focus on a key Internet value, local Internet concerns and to create a global constituency that cares about protecting and defending the Internet.

Check out the One Web Day Wiki to find out about the events near you.

Likewise, if you are too lazy to go out, you can still help to spread the word by joining OWD on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Webcast and read the stories at OneWebDay 100 Stories blog.

So, where will you be or specifically, what will you be doing on OneWebDay?

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At first sight, you may think it’s a spaceship or some sort of space station. But, it is indeed a computer, a prototype design.

Conceived by Korean designer Won-Seok-Lee, the "B-membrane" is one of the most interesting PC prototypes I’ve ever seen.

"B-membrane" is able to project an image of your desktop on any surface you can point its omni-directional projector at. It also has a membrane keyboard and mouse that appear only when you need them too. Not forgetting an optical drive.

The "B-membrane" when it is shut-down can turn itself into an ambient light-effects system.

The only question is how am I going to carry this "B-membrane" in my bag?

(Via Yanko Design)

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