With 45 million monthly active users on Facebook, CrowdStar is now the second largest social gaming network behind Zynga (which has 275 million monthly active users). Second in line in the social gaming race isn’t bad for a startup that has received only $100,000 in funding and is one-tenth the size of Zynga in terms of employees.

Last night at the dinner table we wrestled with the next generation in the form of our 17 year old.

Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by TheIceBreak CEO Christina Brodbeck . Brodbeck is a UI designer, angel investor and entrepreneur based in San Francisco, CA.

The Q&A land rush is on.

Editor’s note : Guest author Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. Shah is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @semilshah People always say things change fast in Silicon Valley. Here, and in other entrepreneurial communities around our country, ideas collide, companies form, money is injected, talent is allocated, and the pace of innovation churns

Cultural relativity is an amazing thing. While American parents worry about their kids being on Facebook, Egyptian parents are naming their kids “Facebook,” to commemorate the events surrounding the #Jan25 revolution

Attention European startups based in or passing through London. I will be hosting regular “Office Hours” from now on so I can meet you and hear about your company.

On Friday afternoon, Paul J. Miller caused what passes for a kerfuffle inside the technology journalism meta-bubble. Miller, as you know, is “ Senior Associate Editor ” at our estranged sister site Engadget – or at least he was until yesterday when he posted a resignation note on his blog