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This is going to be Google’s another attempt to compete with Facebook.com, the leading social networking website.

Dear Dilliwalon – you can now follow the traffic police on twitter and Facebook to get updates about jams, obstructions, road plans and accidents.

After banning Facebook, now Pakistani authorities have blocked YouTube, for the same reason – hosting anti Islamic contents.

The leading social networking website, Facebook.com, has been blocked in Pakistan by authorities after an order by a Pakistani court.

Facebook, the most popular social networking website in the world, today launched a special mobile version of their site: 0.facebook.com.

Delhi Traffic Police is going to use social networking websites to update citizens about the traffic situation in the city, and that in real time.

Microsoft is working on a social aggregator service: Spindex. Spindex is currently in private beta, and aggregates content from Twitter, Facebook, Evernote and RSS feeds.

World’s most popular social networking website, Facebook.com, has announced to shut down Facebook Lite – the stripped-down slimmer version of the site.

Facebook recently introduced a new feature: A “Like” button for all websites. Webmasters can incorporate this button to their websites, and hence users can share web pages easily on Facebook.

Ning has announced integration with Facebook Connect, which will make it easier to share content and status updates on the both social networking sites.

Twitter is going to replace MySQL database system with Cassandra, the Open Source distributed database management system started by Facebook. The top reasons to go with Cassandra include highly scalable writes and a healthy open source community behind the project.

Google has announced to include public Facebook status updates in search results. Status updates from other sites like twitter, Google Buzz, FriendFeed and MySpace are already included in real time search results.

Google is rolling out its new social networking product Google Buzz to all Gmail users over the next few days. Buzz is not available to Google Apps users yet.

Konami Code is a cheat code: up up down down left right left right b a. Press keys in this sequence and you will see hidden feature on many websites including Facebook.

Linc Pen have lauched their Facebook application: MyDiary, which provides a virtual dairy to Facebook users.

Juice is a cool Firefox add-on which offers easier way to search the web and sharing the discoveries with friends on Facebook.

Social Follow is a really cool website to create “Follow Me” type buttons for your blogs, websites etc. easily.