There are certain hallmarks of the past Bat-franchises that we really, really DON'T want to see in any upcoming Batman movies, and we're worried enough about those things that we feel they justify immediate discussion.

With Great Power Comes... Some Really Bad Movies: for every Iron Man, Superman: The Movie, or Spider-Man 2 there are a dozen lesser flicks spit out by Hollywood. Here's our list of the worst superhero movies ever made.

Using flow charting software, self-proclaimed social media junky Andrew Shuttleworth has created a diagram detailing how information flows through the social networking and media sites that he uses. The results are surprisingly complex.

Techcrunch is reporting hat Yahoo will acquire video startup Maven Networks for $150 million today or tomorrow.

Why would the brilliant businessmen at Microsoft buy a share of Facebook for that ridiculous amount of money? The answer lays on Facebook's potential to dominate Microsoft's current advertising competition.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo that he is investigating whether Intel Corp. illegally coerced its customers into buying its PC microprocessors rather than those of rival Advanced Micro Devices.

Apparently, Business Week is actively seeking out sites deep linking to them and requesting that those links be removed: "Yes, that’s right, an ad-driven publication doesn’t want us to drive traffic to them."

Great post from CNET blogger Chris Soghoian who argues that Facebook's permissive policies regarding application access to user data poses a serious threat to user privacy that could seriously damage Facebook's reputation.

From the Inside AdWords blog: demographic bidding and reports are available to advertisers who run contextually targeted or placement-targeted campaigns (with CPC or CPM bidding) on certain sites in the Google content network.

Blaming "human error", the MPAA has retracted its claim that college students were responsible for 44 percent of the total lost revenue from illegal downloading of movies, now saying the number is closer to 15 percent.