I'm growing to like Pinterest, although I wish it would let me pin things without large images. It turns out you can pin all sorts of things to Pinterest, including YouTube videos, as long as you know the correct URL. Someone asked me how exactly to do this, so I wrote up a tutorial. I also pinned it, of course. If I just sounded like I'm talking gibberish, Susan Gunelius can get you up to speed with this article about Pinterest. Happy pinning!

Right now, Google thinks I'm a man. I'm not sure if it's my manly size 11 shoes or my interest in computers and technology. It's strangely comforting to have a company that supposed to be near omniscient turn out to be so wrong on something so basic.

You can find out what Google has inferred to be your gender and age as well as Google's best guesses about your interests by going to Google's ad preferences. Here's how.

You know, if I got a dollar for every "Google is now evil" story I see, I'd have a steady revenue stream I could retire on. The latest evil Google seems to have only committed to social networks that aren't Google+ is the Google Search plus Your World.

It's been about three weeks from the launch. What do you think? Have you quit using Facebook and Twitter yet?

Picnik was purchased by Google in 2010, and it was inevitable that it would undergo some sort of transformation. I expected a name change at a minimum, but it turns out the service is going to get completely dissolved in April this year, and the photo editing tools will find their new home as part of Google+.

Everyone who was paying for the premium service gets a refund (yay), but we'll all have to say goodbye to the standalone product. The photo editing tools have already started migrating to Google+ as part of the Creative Kit.