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Are you sick of seeing Jimmy Wales’ face at the top of every Wikipedia page? Don’t worry because that should subside anytime soon. In an effort to keep Wikipedia free for everyone and free of advertisements, the online encyclopedia began a fundraiser back in November. 67 days later, over 500,000 individuals donated a total of $16 million, which equates to an average donation of $22 per person. $13.7 million came from online donations, while the rest came from various worldwide Wikipedia chapters.

via [PC Mag]

It’s not enough to say that Facebook was the most visited website of 2010. We’re also curious as to what pirates were searching for in 2010 on torrent sites. Unsurprisingly enough, “inception” was the most searched term on torrent sites during the past year.”Iron man 2″ came in at number 2 and “2010″ in third place. “XXX” and “porn” placed fourth and ninth, respectively. To see the entire top 100 list, hit up the link below.

via [TorrentFreak]

For the first time ever, Facebook has been named the most visited website of the year for 2010, raking in more hits than Google, Yahoo and YouTube. Last year Facebook was the third most visited behind Google and Yahoo Mail. The term “facebook” was also the most searched term in 2010.

via [TechCrunch]

Here we are on the last Wednesday of 2010. This means it’s the last Epic Vid of the year. Instead of showing you guys a new video, we’re going to take this time and show you our pick for the top web video of 2010. Nothing was better than the discovery of a double rainbow by one nature enthusiast known as Paul Vasquez. His reaction was arguably the greatest ever.

As a matter of fact, that orangeish-yellowish Google Street View guy has a name, and it’s Pegman. For Christmas, Pegman’s getting a Santa Hat to wear as he prances around wherever you place him. Neat!

On a similar note, Google and NORAD have teamed up to give you a real-time map of where Santa is located as he delivers those toys to all of those good girls and boys. Check it out here.

Epic Vid of the Week is a weekly series that showcases an awesome video that we or our readers discover. Some you may have seen before and others you may have not. If you’ve discovered any videos that are worthy of an Epic Vid of the Week title, let us know!

It’s almost Christmas, folks. Which means this week’s Epic Vid will be a blast from the past. It’s a slightly older viral video, but it’s still one of the greatest Christmas videos of all time.

Twitter has unveiled a list of the top ten most retweeted tweets of 2010 and Stephen Colbert takes home the prize. His joke about the BP oil spill was the most retweeted out of the billions of tweets made over the last year. Others who made the list include Justin Bieber (obviously), Lady Gaga (obviously), Kanye West (obviously), and others. Just goes to show you what the world is coming to these days.

To see the complete ton ten list, click here.

We’re not really sure what Time Magazine was thinking when they named Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as their Person of the Year for 2010, but they say it’s because of his work for “connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how we all live our lives.” Thing is, he accomplished that a whole six years ago when Zuckerberg created Facebook. This year, he didn’t really do a lot besides watch the numbers increase. Way to be late to the party, Time Magazine. Then again, a movie was made in his honor, which was insanely good. That might have had something to do with it.

Anyone else think that the headshot of Zuckerberg on the cover looks a little creepy?

[TIME via Reuters]

Epic Vid of the Week is a weekly series that showcases an awesome video that we or our readers discover. Some you may have seen before and others you may have not. If you’ve discovered any videos that are worthy of an Epic Vid of the Week title, let us know!

We all should know by now that Google has their own operating system for netbooks called Chrome OS. In this video, we’ll see the Cr-48 netbook get destroyed several times in creative ways, but at the same time we’ll learn about some of the advantages of using a Chrome OS machine.

We had a feeling YouTube would do this eventually, seeing that they kept increasing the maximum video length over the last several months. They have now completely gotten rid of a maximum video length, which means you can now upload that 45-minute long video of your mom singing different renditions of ‘When the Saints Go Marching In.’ However, this only applies to YouTubers who have been good boys/girls.

“…we’ll begin allowing selected users with a history of complying with the YouTube Community Guidelines and our copyright rules to upload videos that are longer than 15 minutes.”

As of now, there’s really no quick way to see if the limit as been lifted for you except to upload a video longer than 15 minutes and just see if it applies the limit or not.

[Official YouTube Blog via Download Squad]