Good news for everyone out there who’s ever thought to themselves: “A 10-minute video of my cat eating ribs on the kitchen floor is just too short .” YouTube announced today that it has increased its upload limit from 10 minutes to 15 for non-partners. So get kitty lookin’ pretty and start rolling! So why add the extra five-spot now? Well, on the YouTube blog , the video-sharing site explains that it’s been beefing up its copyright protection tools of late, i.e

Yes, it’s true: Superstar rapper Kanye West has officially joined Twitter under the username @KanyeWest . The Grammy-winning artist sent out his first tweet earlier today. He is apparently in Silicon Valley meeting with technology companies

Ivy Bean, who was widely considered to be the oldest Twitter user, died in her care home in a small town in England at the age of 104. The news was published on Bean’s Twitter account, @IvyBean104 , which regularly informed followers about Bean’s deteriorating condition over the last couple of days. “Ivy passed away peacefully at 12.08 this morning… Im sorry it took me so long to tell you but it was a very difficult thing to do,” the tweets said.

Stieg Larsson, a Swedish journalist and detective novelist best known for his Millenium trilogy, has become the first author to sell more than 1 million e-books in the Kindle Store. The three books in the posthumously published trilogy — The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest , are all among the Kindle Store’s 10 bestselling books of all time. As of March 2010, the trilogy has sold more than 27 million copies (physical and digital) in more than 40 countries.

Yesterday, a little vid started spreading around that web that is glorious in its simplicity: a man moonwalking through the corridors of that most meme-producing of establishments: Walmart.

After a period of downtime this morning, the Apple Store is now back and, as expected , it now carries refreshed, faster iMac and Mac Pro computers, as well as a completely new product called the Magic Trackpad. The $69 Magic Trackpad is designed to work with your Mac desktop computer and uses the same multi-touch technology as the MacBook Pro. “[It] supports a full set of gestures, giving you a whole new way to control and interact with what’s on your screen,” Apple describes on its product page .

In a new study, researchers found that while half of all Americans surveyed have tried a free web app like Twitter, zero percent of them would be willing to pay to use Twitter or a similar service. This might be bad news for social app startups whose primary revenue strategy involves user subscription fees. This finding is just one unearthed by USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism’s 2010 Digital Future Study , a study that’s been tracking online and social media behavior for the past nine years.

The weekend is over, but you can make the best of your Monday by starting off informed or entertained — whichever one you’re going for. We’ve collected some of the top stories from Saturday and Sunday so you can meet that goal. Yesterday, the biggest intelligence leak of all time occurred via WikiLeaks, an organization that simply couldn’t have existed before the Internet

It turns out that you can play the classic game Snake (especially popular on cell phones back in the day) at Google -owned YouTube by holding the left and up arrow keys on your keyboard while a video is playing or paused. Once the game starts, you can direct a transparent snake around the video player with the arrow keys to gobble up dots that cause the snake to grow

A survey performed by the Yankee Group found that 73% of iPhone users are “very satisfied” with AT&T , despite all the negative press the cellular network has received since the iPhone launched back in 2007.