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• World Tech Update: New Microsoft Bing Maps, Facebook Changes, and Intel's New CPU Microsoft upgrades its online mapping service, Intel unveils a 48-core chip, Facebook announces major changes, and China has slow iPhone sales.
• It's Google Friend Connect vs. Facebook Connect These two competing login services are going to become more important in 2010, as more sites charge for content.
• Are YouTube and Facebook Guzzling Your Bandwidth? What are enterprise networks used for? According to a new traffic analysis the answer is, increasingly, to let employees spend work time visiting leisure Web sites.
• Why Privacy Concerns are Ruining Facebook Facebook is taking new steps to protect your privacy, including eliminating regional networks. But I think the site is going too far.
• New Facebook Privacy Controls Just Weeks Away Think you've heard about them before? You have--back in July--but it's now about to happen, FB founder Mark Zuckerberg says. Regional networks? They're toast.
• Nine Technologies Ahead of Their Time Sometimes you build it, and they end up not coming.
• Facebook Blocks Raunchy Worm Exploit spreading around the social network prompted users to click to see a revealing photo of a woman.
• More Facebooking, More Malware More vigilence in security matters is necessary as social networking use increases, says security vendor F-Secure.
• Cell Phones Drive Social Networks Now, IDC Reports Mobile devices have edged PCs as the tool of choice in Asia for online social networks, researchers find.
• Happiness on Facebook Cuts Canadian Woman's Health Care An IBM employee claims her medical leave was cut short based on the insurance company's assessment of her Facebook activities.
• Facebook: Everything You Need to Know Expert analysis on the latest Facebook developments, helpful tips, tricks and how-tos, the latest updates on privacy and Facebook, and more.
• 'Unfriend' Is 2009's Top Word The New Oxford American Dictionary has announced its Word Of The Year for 2009: unfriend. Bloggers wonder if that's the best the wordmeisters could do.
• 'Unfriend' is 2009's Word of the Year: Geek Lexicon Goes Pop Oxford Dictionary is giving geek speak some book credentials naming "unfriend" as the 2009 world of the year.
• Top Word of 2009: Unfriend, But Twitterisms Abound Runners-up: Hashtag, sexting, netbook, intexticated, paywall.
• 'Unfriend' Chosen as Oxford Dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year The New Oxford American Dictionary has chosen 'unfriend' as its 2009 Word of the Year.
• 360 Facebook and Twitter Today, PS3 Integration Incoming Microsoft Xbox 360 Facebook and Twitter functionality launches today, while Sony counters with promise of integration in forthcoming PS3 firmware update.
• Seesmic Saves Time for Facebook and Twitter Addicts Mash together Twitter and Facebook updates into a single app, without a lot of clicking.
• Facebook Aims for PS3, While Twitter Taps Xbox Next Dashboard update features Twitter, Facebook, and Last.fm, Microsoft says.
• Facebook Invasion: Beware of New 'Smart' Worm Hot on the heels of a reported hijacking of hundreds of Facebook groups, a new variation on an old worm is crawling its way into the social network's walls.
• Facebook Denies Hijack Facebook Groups were disrupted by a warning to "Control Your Info" but no damage occurred besides disruption, Facebook says.
• Developer Finds Major Coding Errors in Facebook, MySpace Update: Social networking sites MySpace and Facebook have apparently fixed coding errors that could have allowed an attacker access user data.
• Study: Internet Users Aren't Isolated (Thank Facebook) Internet users are not as isolated as sociologists thought. A new study finds the Internet broadens our social circle, and Facebook gets particular credit.
• MSN Revamps Site with Focus on Social Networking Microsoft has unveiled a much-needed redesign of the MSN.com site which includes feeds from Facebook and Twitter. The cleaner and more functional MSN.com could revive the concept of the web portal.
• MSN Offers Public Sneak Peek at New Look Microsoft is revamping its MSN portal to give it a modern look and new social networking tools.
• Are You Being Scammed by Facebook Ads? Cyberthieves are using social media to scam people, but it turns out the most egregious scammers are many "legitimate" companies.