If you uploaded pictures of your family on Christmas Day to Facebook - or updated your status to dish on all your new goodies - you weren’t alone.

For the first time ever, Facebook ousted Google for most visited site in a day. Or at least, so tweeted Hitwise.

It makes sense. No longer were people frantically searching for presents. The big day arrived and it was time to be social, not searching.

via Mashable

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Indeed is a job search aggregator. If you conduct a job search on Indeed, it will pull opportunities posted to a variety of job boards including Career Builder, Dice, etc. as well as corporate sites.

Today, they’ve revealed the fastest growing job opportunities for 2009.

1. Twitter
2. Cloud Computing
3. iPhone
4. Facebook
5. Corporate Social Responsibility
6. Blogger
7. Pediatrician
8. Hospitalist
9. Social Media
10. Speech Language Pathologist (SLP)

With high unemployment rates in the past year, many have chosen to look at new careers. This list may help you find a new path if you’re struggling to find work.

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Google thought it had a right to own Groovle.com, so it took it’s case to the National Arbitration Forum (NAF). (The NAF is an international arbitration service accredited by ICANN.)

But the NAF didn’t agree with Google that Groovle could be confused for the search giant. Groovle does use Google’s custom search. It also provides a service where you can skin your Google homepage with a photograph (similar to Bing without the hotspots).

Still, Groovle just didn’t sound or act enough like Google to warrant the domain being handled over to the folks at Mountain View.

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StumbleUpon has had quite a year. They bought themselves back from eBay and launched a URL shortening service, among other things. Now, they’re revealing the most stumbled sites for their historic year that was 2009.

Here they are, broken down by category:

Arts

Jim Jarmusch Quote - 278K Stumbles
Aled Lewis Illustrations - 253K Stumbles
Pepsi Logo Response - 229K Stumbles

Bizarre/Oddities

99 Things You Should Have Seen On The Internet - 471K Stumbles
Scary Good Facepaint - 374K Stumbles
Slightly Warped Curiosities: Gibraltar Airport - 352K Stumbles

Food/Cooking

26 Cakes Perfect for Geeks - 290K Stumbles
Pasta Pie Recipe - 231K Stumbles
Hasselback Potatoes Recipe - 231K Stumbles

Environment

Air Traffic in 24 Hours - 130K Stumbles
Free Heat from Old Window and Soda Cans - 113K Stumbles
Think About Your Morning Latte - 112K Stumbles

Humor

Cheat Sheet for Travelling Back in Time - 472K Stumbles
Life Summarized in 4 Bottles - 439K Stumbles
As Luck Would Have It… - 369K Stumbles

Music

8 Tracks Mix: Songs that Make You Feel Better - 368K Stumbles
Gizmodo: Proof That Birds are Secret Composers - 313K Stumbles
Fun With Rap Music - 298K Stumbles

Photography

Peter Funch Street Photography - 410K Stumbles
Stunning Wildlife Camouflage - 356K Stumbles
14 Rare Color Photos From the FSA-OWI - 341K Stumbles

Science

Robot/People Art by Kacie Kinzer - 230K Stumbles
Photographs of and from the Hubble Space Telescope - 219K Stumbles
Default Password for Roadside Led Signs - 184K Stumbles

Travel

12 Most Amazing Pools in the World - 196K Stumbles
9 best Train Journeys in the World - 172K Stumbles
Anderson Cooper’s Blog: 28 things I wish I’d known before I started traveling - 165K Stumbles

Video Games

Ball Droppings - 292K Stumbles
Amazing Mario Level - 214K Stumbles
Canabalt - 192K Stumbles

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