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According to a recent survey by the American Life Project of the Pew Research Center, regular users of the social network Facebook are more confident, have more close friends and are more politically engaged, attending more demonstrations.

This month, six years ago, the founders of YouTube launched the most used platform for uploading videos. Currently, more than 48 hours of video are uploaded every minute, that is, two days of new content every 60 seconds. This represents an increase of 37% in the last six months.

This is demonstrated by a study carried out by eDarling that states that the least important aspects when looking for a partner are the level of education, religion, physical appearance or income of the other person. On the contrary, according to the data obtained, women give priority to other aspects, such as the similarity of ideas about the education of their children or the energy level of the other person.

Twitter, the popular microblogging platform, has announced the launch of a new version of its web application for mobile browsers. "This web application allows us to give you a consistent, high-quality Twitter experience on touch screen devices, even when there is a mobile application available," they say on the company's official blog.

Yahoo! has sold the Delicious tool to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who plan to introduce the service at their new company AVOS. Delicious is a "social linking" service that has been online since 2003, and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2005.

According to the third Wave of the Observatory of Social Networks of The Cocktail Analysis, Facebook is "the social network" par excellence, with 78% of Internet users being Facebook users. One in 4 network users declare their willingness to use a new account on a social network, mainly highlighting Twitter as "the next destination".

Twitter has modified its search engine to make it easier for users to search for Twitter accounts related to your interests. As announced by the developers of the microblogging platform on their official blog, now when we search by topic we can discover accounts that are relevant to that particular topic.

The digital canon with which the purchase of digital reproduction media such as CDs, DVDs and MP3s was taxed in Spain, as well as hard drives, has just been annulled in a resolution issued by the National Court, which adds to the judgment of the European Court that declares its collection illegal from companies and administrations.