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President Obama should expect plenty of questions about marijuana legalization from Twitter users on July 6.

The cyberscammers are out in full force to take advantage of interest in the death of Osama bin Laden.

The guy who literally invented the World Wide Web is somewhat troubled by the crude level of discourse found on microblogging site Twitter.

Facebook is considering hiring former Obama White House spokesman Robert Gibbs as part of the social networking company's communications team, according to the New York Times.

One of the first things I did Friday morning when I saw coverage of President Obama's meeting with tech leaders in California Thursday night was search for pictures or video. Not of Obama, or Mark Zuckerberg or Eric Schmidt. I wanted to see how Steve Jobs looked.

Someone is on to the liberal conspiracy between the Obama Administration and search giant Google, and that someone is Fox Network star and American hero Glenn Beck.

In an effort to boost interest in math and science, President Barack Obama will make an appearance on the hit Discovery Channel series Mythbusters. (Needless to say, this completely trumps Bill Clinton playing sax on Arsenio.)

In the last year, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Department of Defense (DoD) and the ATM banking system have all been attacked in concerted, organized ways by people who have yet to be apprehended. Hardening critical infrastructure systems in industries as diverse as defense, electricity, financial services and telecommunications will take millions of dollars, perhaps many years and massive political clout. President Barack Obama says he wants to do it. IT leaders want to know how.

Microsoft's Silverlight has been chosen for the live streaming of Obama's inauguration on Tuesday.

Absent from this year's list of 10 prognostications is an entry about Microsoft finally buying at least the ad-search business of Yahoo, if not the whole company. We left that one off the list for next year because we still expect it could happen in 2008. With that in mind and in no particular order:

On Yahoo's recently-released list of the top 10 searches of 2008, Britney Spears takes the cake. In this election year, Spears managed to beat out president-elect Barack Obama, who came in at number 3.