As Twitter has just announced on their blog, by connecting iTunes to Twitter, you’ll be able to not only find your Twitter friends on Ping, but you’ll be able to tweet out Ping activity as well. That last bit is a key to making Ping actually work. Perhaps even more interesting is that not only will each tweet contain a link back to the song or album on iTunes, but these links will work in New Twitter’s right-side

Facebook is taking action against the developers who sold user data to data brokers. The Wall Street Journal reported a few weeks ago that Facebook suffered a huge "security breach" when in reality developers were just not following Facebook's Platform Policies and Facebook was just not enforcing anything. It seems now that Facebook has added some new restrictions and will now put the developers who broke the policy on probation for six months. Apple is interested in mobile payments startup BOKU. The fact that it is in Continue Reading

Many of the most popular applications, or "apps," on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying information—in effect, providing access to people's names and, in some cases, their friends' names—to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found. Apple has released two new models of the MacBook Air. Detailed in this video. Diz

Many Facebook applications share users' personal information with advertising networks and other Internet-tracking companies, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Facebook said Sunday, however, that the Journal is exaggerating the problem and that Facebook is working to put an end to any inadvertent data sharing.

Yahoo's shares surged above $17 in premarket trade, but stood at $16.72, up $1.47 or 9.6 percent, shortly after regular trade began on the Nasdaq. Yahoo's jump comes after a source said on Wednesday that several private equity firms have approached media companies including News Corp and AOL about a possible acquisition of Yahoo. Skype 5 adds features familiar to Facebook users, including status updates that Skype has called "mood

Yahoo has revamped its search with a more streamlined layout. It has also improved mobile search functionality and added hot search topics to the front page. Apple Inc. is making a version of its iPhone that Verizon Wireless will sell early next year, according to people familiar with the matter, ending an exclusive deal with AT&T and sharpenin

Facebook and Skype are working on a deal that would integrate Facebook Connect with Skype accounts, AllThingsD has learned, citing sources familiar with the situation. It is a logical step. Facebook's chat capabilities are limited compared to Google Talk. Continue Reading

Today on the Mozilla Labs blog, they’ve unveiled Seabird, an Android-based concept phone built around the ideals of the Open Web. The concept, created by Billy May, looks pretty cool. Mozilla has no plans on doing anything about with it. It is just a cool picture with made up specs. The FCC voted Continue Reading

Diaspora, the open source social network, has released its source code. It only has the most basic features so far but it will continue to gain high level features over time. As far as features go, Diaspora currently supports sharing status messages and photos privately and in near real time, in addition to providing options for friending people and uploading photos and albums. That is all I really want. Add the ability to invite people to events and I am happy. I like to party. Continue Reading

According to comScore, Facebook is first when it comes to the total amount of time users are spending on the site. In August, U.S. web users spent 41.1 million minutes on Facebook, which was about 9.9% of their entire web-surfing time in that month. In this same period, people spent 39.8 million minutes on all of Google’s sites, and those include another huge online timesink – YouTube. Facebook Places was used in New Hampshire by a gang