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After 17 rousing days and the sight of Canadians throughout the Great White North celebrating Sunday's Gold Medal hockey victory and the country's record medal haul, all good things moose-t come to an end. Time to look forward to London, to Sochi, and to Rio. Trade that Molson's for a pint, a shot of vodka, a caipirinha.

Sponsors have a new name for the Vancouver Olympics: the Social Games.

More consumer eyeballs will be on computer and mobile phone screens during the Winter Olympics than on TV screens. Coca-Cola says that while 100 million saw its Super Bowl ads air once, online interactions with the ads now number more than 500 million. The Olympics will be no different.

Sponsors have spent months creating strategies aimed at nudging folks to mingle with their brands online and share virtual goodies with friends.

Apologies that Facebook Friday is coming at you a day late this week but here in Washington DC we got TWO blizzards so I hope you’ll forgive us. The 2010 Winter Olympics started yesterday and of course every major athlete, organization, and sponsor has a Facebook campaign going on. Here are some recommendations for getting the most out of the games using Facebook.

Apologies that Facebook Friday is coming at you a day late this week but here in Washington DC we got TWO blizzards so I hope you’ll forgive us. The 2010 Winter Olympics started yesterday and of course every major athlete, organization, and sponsor has a Facebook campaign going on. Here are some recommendations for getting the most out of the games using Facebook.

Las autoridades haitianas temen que decenas de miles de personas hayan muerto sepultadas bajo los escombros de los cientos de edificios -viviendas, escuelas y hospitales- que se vinieron abajo como castillos de naipes en Puerto Príncipe, azotadas por el terremoto que asoló Haití el martes por la noche y que ya se considera el más destructivo de los últimos 200 años en la isla caribeña. La secretaria de Estado de EE UU, Hillary Clinton, ha señalado a la cadena NBC que hay "decenas de miles de muertos y que miles de edificios se han derrumbado".

&TA joke about the iPhone lasted barely 15 seconds on last week's Saturday Night Live TV show. But it generated substantial buzz in the technology world, touching a raw nerve about the Apple handset's connectivity as provided by AT&T.

A Google blog search Monday morning showed more than 17,000 results for the query "Seth Meyers iPhone." Meyers, the wry host of SNL's Weekend Update and the iconic NBC comedy show's head writer, took note in the fake news segment of growing speculation that Google may introduce its own smartphone, posing a challenge to the iPhone.

Comcast Corp. announced Thursday it plans to buy a majority stake in NBC Universal for $13.75 billion, giving the nation's largest cable TV operator control of the Peacock network, an array of cable channels and a major movie studio.

Although the deal could mean that movies could reach cable more quickly after showing in theaters, and that TV shows could appear faster on cell phones and other devices, it was already raising concerns that Comcast would wield too much power over entertainment.