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Web video gets really smart

Research finds that college students’ choice of social networking sites — including Facebook, MySpace and Xanga — is related to their race, ethnicity and parents’ education. Is Facebook the next Google? The social networking site tries to become an ad-sales behemoth. Yes, Google is trying to take over the world: Next step — take out Ma Bell. Boing Boing TV: A new Web video endeavor about nothing. The new online star system: This is the year that Web video got really smart — and addictive. Here’s what’s worth a click. All the right notes: A jokey guitar ballad gains a cult following on the Internet. The wireless disconnect: A negative, paranoid attitude is displacing the optimistic ethos the internet once promised.