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Facebook was the top-visited Website for the first time and accounted for 8.93 percent of all U.S. visits between January and November 2010.

Google.com ranked second with 7.19 percent of visits, followed by Yahoo! Mail (3.52 percent), Yahoo! (3.30 percent) and YouTube (2.65 percent).

The combination of Google properties accounted for 9.85 percent of all U.S. visits. Facebook properties accounted for 8.93 percent, and Yahoo! properties accounted for 8.12 percent. The top 10 Websites accounted for 33 percent of all U.S. visits between January and November 2010, an increase of 12 percent versus 2009.

Other top searches from various categories include:

Personality – top 5 people searches

1. Kim Kardashian

2. Oprah

3. Rush Limbaugh

4. Miley Cyrus

5. Glenn Beck

Movie Titles – top 5 searches from within Movies category:

1. Star Wars

2. Paranormal Activity 2

3. Avatar

4. Transformers 3

5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow

Music – top 5 searched for artists/bands:

1. Lady Gaga

2. Justin Beiber

3. Eminem

4. Taylor Swift

5. Michael Jackson

Branded Destinations top 5 search terms:

1. Disney World

2. Disneyland

3. Six Flags

4. Universal Studios Orlando

5. Great Wolf Lodg

Top TV show searches from Television category

1. Dancing with the Stars

2. American Idol

3. Young and the Restless

The top generic search term was “hulu” within Television category

Sports – the top searched for athlete was Tiger Woods and the top sports team was the Dallas Cowboys from within the Sports category.

News and Media – the top searched for person was Bret Michaels followed by Tiger Woods and Sandra Bullock within the News and Media category in 2010.

Real Estate – the search terms “houses for rent” and “homes for rent”, combined topped the combined searches for “houses for sale” and “homes for sale” in 2010 within the Real Estate category.

• Realtor.com was the top search term overall for Real Estate category.

Employment – Indeed accounted for 2.47 percent of all searches in the US among the top 50 terms for the Employment category in 2010 when combining common search terms – e.g., indeed and indeed.com.

Via The Washington Post – The iPhone now makes a decent video phone — even if you’re away from a WiFi hot spot. Skype shipped an update to its free iPhone application Thursday that adds video-calling capability to the iPhone 4, the iPhone 3GS and the current, fourth-generation iPod touch.

And the new Skype 3.0, unlike Apple’s FaceTime, works over AT&T’s 3G mobile broadband.

That’s not through any cooperation with the wireless carrier, Skype says.

“We’ve not checked with AT&T,” said Neil Stevens, Skype’s vice president and general manager for consumer products, in a Skype interview Wednesday. “We don’t think it’s our position to check in with carriers.”

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I tested the new app in a round of brief calls from an iPhone 4, loaned by Apple’s PR department, to an iMac and vice versa, then between that iPhone and a loaner iPod touch. Every call connected in a second or two, stayed up until I ended it myself and delivered Skype’s typically good audio quality. But Skype’s low-resolution video stream looked lousy even over five bars of an AT&T signal, and switching to my home’s faster wireless network didn’t improve it.

(In the screen grab, I’m holding the iPhone up to the iMac’s webcam so it can see an image of its own screen in the Mac’s copy of Skype for a hall-of-mirrors effect.)

Then again, FaceTime doesn’t look that hot either. (more…)

Via the Washington Post – The HTC Thunderbolt, the new name for Verizon’s first phone on LTE, made an appearance on the blog Droid Life Tuesday, prompting the phone to trend on Google and Twitter Wednesday morning.

The smartphone looks a lot like the HTC Desire HD, and Droid Life mentions that it’s a bit surprised by the Thunderbolt’s kickstand, which bears Google branding and hides a speaker. The blog also reports that it’s “assuming it won’t have a dual-core processor.”

The phone is expected to officially debut at CES 2011 next month.

R.I.P. Teena Marie

Nicole owes the IRS $846,000.00,owes a law firm $600k, owes $60k to a landscaping firm, and owes $5 mill on her LA home after she received a one time settlement of $15 Million from her divorce with Eddie Murphy.