The latest revelation from Wikileaks is not a cable that uncovers a country’s well hidden secrets, but is rather a cleverly put together ad parodying the infamous MasterCard commercials, called “What Does it Cost to Change the World?” In it, the price of Julian Assange’s legal battles, the price incurred by his house arrest, and the amount of money in lost donations are all pitted against the priceless act of “watching the world change as a result of your work....

Usually when it comes to the unsubstantiated, but perhaps reliable rumor mill, Apple products lead the charge. Not today however, there is a pile of juicy Microsoft tips just for you. According toWzor.net, a source that has been partially reliable in the past, we have new leaks that center around the release of Windows 8 and the coming service packs for Windows 7. To quote: “Service Pack 2 is already actively underway since the autumn of 2010, and if all goes according to plan then the appearance of a second service pack, Service Pack 2 for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 is expected in mid-2012....

According tonew data from the NPD Group, Windows Mobile outsold Windows Phone 7 last quarter roughly two to one in the United States. Before this fuels any untoward debate, let’s get all the numbers and context onto the table: Windows Mobile accounted for roughly 4% of the US smartphone market in Q4 of 2010; Windows Phone 7 entered the charts at 2%. Now, Windows Phone 7 was launchedmid-quarter, giving it about half the time that its older brother had to move units....

Because of the way that Facebook is designed, it automatically surfaces the most interesting content coming into your individual stream. What it doesn’t do is go out and look at all of the content on Facebook and show you whats cool or interesting. This is the way that Facebook wants it to workwith Edgerank, but if you want to explore popular Facebook shares on your own, check outFmeme. Thesitetakes an approach similar to Digg, but instead of Diggs it tracks Facebook likes and scrapes other social sharing sites like Topsy, Stumbleupon and Reddit....

Is your favorite podcast tracking you? Podcast listening is hard to track, but that doesn’t mean advertisers aren’t trying Traditionally, podcasts couldn’t track much The main metric of success for most of podcasting history has been the one thing the RSS infrastructure allows: how many times the file was downloaded. It’s like the early days of the web, when websites proudly displayed a “hit counter” that tracked the raw number of visits....