What People Are Talking About Online

Hillary Clinton joined Twitter last week and winked at the speculation she may run in 2016 with a self-deprecating bio decribing herself in part as a "hair icon" and "pantsuit aficionado" as well as a "glass ceiling cracker" with a future "TBD". Yes, this is the real deal. It's really the former First Lady of the US (and Arkansas), Senator, 2008 Presidential hopeful and Secretary State, not some mock account. Follow @HillaryClinton.

Google is launching huge balloons to bring the Internet to remote and difficult terrain -- think mountain ranges, archipelagos and jungles...and New Zealand, where the first 30 "Internet-enabling" balloons have been launched.

It's nice to see that Beatles drummer, Ringo Starr, didn't waste all of his talent on drumming. He did, however, completely forget that he took a lot of photos of the Fab Four during the 1960s. But it's never too late to publish more than 100 images of the worl'd most famous rock band ever. And give Ringo some props for being a 21st century guy - he's done it in an ebook!

Do you friends act perfectly normal in real life, but bug you with their online personas? The best thing about this video? While these kids might be under 21, the behaviors they act out apply across the board, from 9 to 90....

It's for your own good. Cut these things out of your day and you'll see gains in productivity--not to mention happiness.

An Apple-1 computer, made in 1976 and originally priced at $666, sold for a record $671,400 at an auction in Germany. The sale shows the run-up in prices for the vintage machines recently.

Smartphones are keepiing people under 30 connected in a way that owning a car used to. And as such, smartphones compete against cars for young people’s big-ticket dollars, since the cost of a good phone and data plan can exceed $1,000 a year.

When Yahoo's Web 1.0 "fanbase" (i.e., those who grew up watching the Brady Bunch in its first iteration) collides head on with Web 2.0 (Tumblr and microblogging), what will the future be?

From sushi to salmon, learn to cook in six seconds flat with these 15 Vine videos. Well, you'll at least get the gist of it and maybe get some ideas for dinner tonight. 

Remember MySpace? Sure you do. You probably even have an old account kicking around somewhere from before you got hooked on Facebook and Twitter. Like from 2008, maybe? Well, it's been some time, but MySpace is re-entering the social media world (and a lot has changed!). The site is targeting the 13-30-year-old demographic. So, if you are 31+ no need to read further....

Those crazy low-res GIFs are older than most of the kids who love 'em on Tumblr. Yep, believe it or not, the GIF is no longer covered on Mom & Dad's health insurance and its time to get out of the house. Well, maybe. Stay young, GIF, and of course, stay foolish.

there’s an overabundance of free movies streaming at this very moment as well — many of them legally (it seems!), thanks our old friend “the public domain,” whereby films whose copyright has lapsed (or never existed in the first place) can be made available for public consumption. Others are hosted gratis by services that simply want to share the wealth of great cinema. Whatever the case, with an awareness of how much everyone loves free stuff, here are 50 free movies that are well worth a watch. Clear your schedule accordingly.

San Francisco's fog, bridges, ocean waves and cable cars all tweet. And they're amassing large numbers of followers.

How would you like to have your pizza delivered by a drone?

In one-upping Pizza Hut, who earlier this year made it possible to order a pizza from an Xbox, Domino's is trialling drone delivery in the UK.

This might not...um...takeoff....

More politicians are finding self-flattering ways around press conferences and on-the-record interviews. How? By making their own vanity videos.

We take the title of our site - "What People Are Talking About Online" seriously. Yes, we do. And this week, what people are talking about is this latest exercise craze - Prancercise. And, yes, there's a video. It's taken a while, but it looks like 2013 finally has its first Internet sensation. It's about time!

From its slot-machine rewards to its ability to spur our fight-or-flight response, the Internet's structure makes it easy to use it compulsively.

An assortment of services can help you and your heirs organize the online accounts that you will eventually leave behind.

A Facebook group is helping the victims of the massive Oklahoma tornado, which killed 51 people and left many homeless, get their belongings back.

New services are moving beyond the Facebook approach, with tools to create new content instead of just sharing it.

The most hateful tweeters in the United States tend to live in the eastern half of the country, according to a new map that pinpoints hate speech directed at gays and minority groups from Twitter across country.