It’s that time again, time to review some of my cherry picked smaller stories of the week for those that might have missed them. This time round we’ve got an Adobe Flash update that doesn’t suck. OK, sucks a little less. Flash 10.1 beta was unleashed to the willing public with GPU video acceleration for certain Nvidia cards on Windows, but perhaps more importantly reduced CPU usage across all platforms. What does this mean? YouTube that doesn’t make your Mac or PC red-line that’s what. A step in the right direction Adobe, maybe Flash isn’t a lost cause after all. I’ve certainly seen some improvements on my netbook and Mac. (more…)

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All you have to do is go to their Facebook page, Like and Share this post.  Winner will be chosen randomly.  It’s free to enter, so what do you got to lose?!

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Netflix just released season 3 of the hit U.K. sitcom, I.T. Crowd.  One of their opening sequences makes fun of Facebook or “FriendFace” and compares it to a disease or a plague.  Which is true.  I have almost 150+ germs on my FriendFace right now! Awesome!

Facebook has been busy lately, first introducing Facebook Lite, a stripped down simple version of the site for those who don’t want to wait or sift through the main site. The second introduction today is the inclusion of @mentions in status updates. Taking a page from Twitter, people can tag their friends in updates using the @ tag to induce a user selection screen. The @ symbol isn’t actually displayed in the update, but it just goes to show that the @mentions that started first with Twitter have transcended the social networking site to become a more universally recognised tag.

[Via Facebook Blog]

It’s funny when some non-geek types get on the internet.  They think that all data on the internet is secure and private just because of a password.  But this image above goes beyond that.  Tracy is an unfortunate woman who has learned that the “status” box on Facebook is not where you send private messages out.

Thank you, Tracey, for the luls.

Nintendo is letting DSi owners download a free system update after 5pm (PST) today.  The free update includes a way for you to upload photos to your Facebook account using your WiFi connection.

Full press release after the break.

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Have you ever gotten onto your Facebook and seen an update that was a tad TMI? Well, I personally havent, but if you have there is a site that collects all the dumbest, lamest, and douchey-est photos, comments, and status updates from the popular networking site.

I, my friends, present you lamebook.com!

You can literally kill a shitload of time looking through the innards of this site. It amazes me how open these people are. It makes me want to share something. My right boob itches, like a lot a lot a lot a lot a lot a lot A LOT!……

……and you are welcome.

Sometimes, random letters can write something funny.  Or maybe computers are just making fun of us.

Ticketmaster knows when you're buying Celine Dion tickets

Facebook's servers keep up with economic news

Google doesn't need a search engine to find out details about you

Google can now search your current thoughts

After fucking with your friends face, you can upload it to your facebook account.

Yay?

As per their announcement in the Town Hall video last week, Digg has removed the shout feature that was used to promote links across the Digg site. To get into the upper eschalons of Diggdom a network of friends across the site was required. Shouting allowed you to push your Digg links across your network of friends allowing you to promote something that you’re keen on or have a vested interest in seeing high in the rankings.

By removing shouts from Digg and integrating with Twitter and Facebook Digg will be able to pull more visitors in from popular social networking sites, instead of just promoting to the already Digg faithful. It will also mean that the power base that sits with few users at the moment might be spread around a bit more across the flock. Hooking Digg into Twitter and Facebook is a smart move in my opinion as any hotly talked about stories on the social networking services can be translated into Digg hits and links drawing in more traffic and possibly making the service more useful to the uninitiated.

Time will tell what effect this has on the site and whether the social bookmarking site will gain more traffic from a wider audience.

[Via Download Squad]