Pinterest: 5 Ways to Use the Social Site
Pinterest has taken the Internet by storm. Here are five ways to use the social pinning site.

Google Graph Makes Search Smarter
Google's new Knowledge Graph is a new search tool that will begin rolling out starting today, and it it's meant to help you find search results faster. When you search now for popular or well-known people, places and things you'll get a box to the left of the results explaining more about that term.

Funds with Facebook hammered as proxy by shorts
(Reuters) - Some investment funds have paid a price for their friendship with Facebook since the social networking giant went public last week. Firsthand Technology Value Fund and GSV Capital Corp, two closed-end funds that bought shares of the social media company before the IPO, have taken a beating, used as proxies for betting against Facebook. "Until investors can actually short Facebook, they have to keep shorting things that can give them some sort of proxy for Facebook," said Thomas Vandeventer, manager of the Tocqueville Opportunity Fund, which owns shares in both closed-end funds. ...

Nasdaq shareholders mum on Facebook IPO

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Not a single shareholder asked a question at Nasdaq OMX's annual meeting on Tuesday, just days after the exchange operator bungled Facebook's widely anticipated market debut, which helped launch the new stock into a three-day slide. When Nasdaq Chairman H. Furlong Baldwin called for questions at the Tuesday morning meeting in New York, he got eight seconds of silence. Technical glitches marred Facebook's IPO on Nasdaq's exchange on Friday, delaying the social networking giant's market debut by 30 minutes and delaying order confirmations for hours afterward. The U.S. ...

First Meteor Shower of 2012 Dazzles
The Quadrantid meteor shower, the first major show of shooting stars in 2012, peaks in the hours before dawn on Wednesday. The best seeing should be after the moon sets around 3 a.m. Astronomers say you may see 60-200 shooting stars per hour if the weather is clear.

Hands-On With So.cl, Microsoft's Social Search Site for Students
Microsoft's new site So.cl -- which combines social networking and search -- is giving college students a platform to learn and collect information, news and pictures from around the web. But can the latest social network truly stand out in an already-crowded social space?