 | There has been much fuss over security during the last few days at Facebook. First there were reports about Facebook getting hacked in Tunisia. And then another report came up about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page getting hacked. And to top all this, another supposed XSS hack plagued Facebook wherein a lot of users… |
 | Given the current trends in Social Media ad spending, the U.S. social media ad spending alone will cross a whopping $3 billion in 2011. In the year 2010, close to $2 billion was spent in social media advertisements. The global Social Media ad spending is predicted to cross $4Bn. This is indeed a huge figure and clearly shows how fast is the world catching up with Social media. |
 | Facebook has launched voice status updates for it’s users in India in association with Aircel – an Indian mobile service provider. The service is currently available in 3 languages – English, Hindi and Tamil. Using the service is very simple, all you need to do is dial 51555 from your Aircel mobile phone. |
 | The “Facebook competitor” is finally here. Yesterday, the Diaspora source code was released for everyone to use, hack and run it on their own server. If you are using Ubuntu, Fedora or Mac OSX, the Diaspora team already has instructions on you can run it in your machine. If you do not want to bother… |
 | As expected, the Diaspora team has released the source code and posted screenshots of Diaspora as it stands now. It is not ready for public usage yet, but they have released the source code so that interested developers can play around with it. |
 | Diaspora becomes available to developers from September 15. Users will, however, have to wait for the alpha in October. |
| A federal magistrate in the US today ruled that a Facebook posts falls under the First Amendment, which provides for free speech. The matter came up after a student, Katherine Evans, was suspended for three days from her school for creating a Facebook page where she vented about the worst teacher she has ever met. |
![Twitter kills Johnny Depp! [Not Really]](http://digitizor.comhttps://digitizor.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/johnny-depp-150x150.jpg) | Update: Lycos, Inc., which owns Angelfire, has removed the fake CNN page. Well, Twitter did not literally kill Johnny Depp. But if you were to go with the Twitter trending topic, you would be led to believe that he is really dead. Sources say that Johnny Depp is well and certainly not dead and that… |
 | Who would have ever guessed that Miley Cyrus, the star from Disney’s show Hannah Montana, would be the subject of discussion in any website other than some celebrity gossip sites? Well, surprise, surprise, I have been been seeing post about Miley from the most unexpected sources (read the tech blogs) after she deleted her twitter… |
