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After attracting 10 million users in its first two weeks, Google+ is the fastest growing social network ever, according to CNNMoney, the world’s largest business website.

Google CEO Larry Page said in a July 15 conference call with analysts that he believes this is opening great opportunities for Google.

Google+ is working on getting more advertisers and contacts on their network by giving their website time to gain more individual users.

After arriving on the webpage, a female voice begins extolling the benefits of paying for uSocial. The voice belongs to a chatbot, who has popped up on the left side of the page.

“Here at uSocial, we know the secrets to making you an overnight rockstar on Twitter,” the chatbot says, going on to promise up to 100,000 “real followers who will respond immediately to meet your market demands.”  

1970 - The U.S. creates the Environmental
Protection Agency.

1971 - Department of the Environment formed in Canada.

1972 - Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement between the U.S. and Canada. Amended in 1978 and 1987.

Armed with a flashlight, backpack, some friends, and the safety of the night, Jo Richard climbs onto the rims of dumpsters and peers in, carefully sorting through bags of garbage to find her prize : food.

Richard, a women studies student at the University of Ottawa, supplements her diet with dumpster dive finds.

Although she doesn’t consider herself to be a freegan, she practices some of their lifestyle ideals by trying to reduce her impact on the world while balancing life as a student.