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As expected, Peek have announced a dedicated Twitter messaging device, the TwitterPeek. Like the company’s email-centric handhelds, the TwitterPeek aims to do one thing very well rather than multiple things reasonably: it delivers new tweets in real-time, allows for ‘@’ replies, retweeting and direct messaging, and has the same full-QWERTY keyboard as the Peek [...]

MU is a JavaScript library for enabling Facebook Connect on any website with ease.
Facebook Connect is a powerful set of APIs for developers that lets users bring their identity and connections everywhere. By using facebook connect you can enable over 300 million Facebook users to share your content with their friends on Facebook. Let users [...]

Facebook Awarded $711 Million in Anti-Spam Lawsuit. Back in March, Facebook won an injunction against three spammers who sent unwanted messages and made abusive wall posts on the site. The temporary restraining order placed criminal consequences on their continuing actions, but the legal battle wasn’t over just yet.
Today Facebook reported they’ve been awarded $711 million [...]

Facebook’s VP of Communications and Public Policy Elliot Schrage has posted an update to the site’s blog outlining a major rewrite Facebook is proposing for its Privacy Policy. Schrage writes that the new version eliminates the legalese of the privacy policy the company has used up until now, spelling out what the site is doing [...]

There is a new Twitter phishing scam making the rounds, and this one is spreading quickly via direct message.
The infected message, which seems to be an iteration of a previous phishing scam, simply reads: “Hi, this you on here?” Clicking on the link will take you to a phishing site where scammers can take your [...]

Yahoo is seeing 800 million status message updates per month through this new feature. AIM has been doing this for sometime now, so Yahoo’s status update feature isn’t new but the quantity of updates is certainly something worth noting. The integration of these status updates into mail and IM represents the merging of private and [...]

MySpace is currently discussing a partnership with Facebook where music and video content published to MySpace could easily be shared on Facebook via Facebook Connect.
How far that Connect implementation might go isn’t clear, but Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg tells The Telegraph, “MySpace could become a Facebook Connect partner – which would allow people to share [...]

Many website owners were using some third party tools and widgets to share there recent posts on different social networks and micro-Blogging sites like twitter, facebook, youtube and other blogs. Sharing content on Facebook hasn’t generally been as easy as it has been on Twitter. Part of Twitter’s advantage is just how easy it is [...]

Tweetmixx, the newly launched service from social voting site Mixx that allows you to find relevant links on Twitter, is venturing into new territory today with the launch of TweetMixx Channels. The service basically lets brands, celebs and companies consolidate their Twitter traffic and mentions on one page.
TweetMixx Channels features branded, customizable pages, with [...]