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Facebook is a popular social networking website. David Fincher, the Oscar-nominated director of The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, is in early talks to log on to an untitled movie about the founders of the popular social networking site Facebook.

MySpace is seeing a sharp drop off in users as rivals Facebook and Twitter continue to grow.

Facebook has had its share of privacy and security issues , but a pair of professed Facebook fans at FBHive have recently found an easily exploitable hole that can reveal private information, even if the privacy settings are set to hide it.

This week a free gathering hosted by Kirsty.com and Microsoft offered women to improve their tech knowledge to get ahead in today’s hi-tech society.

Category I twittered this last week and got various answers. I am tired of Firefox bookmarking, and basically bookmarking in general.

On Wednesday, a Dickinson County judge informed Appletree Preschool and Daycare that an injunction had been filed, permanently keeping its owner from providing child care in Iowa.

Canadian technology is playing a key role in the current political upheaval in Iran and an Ottawa man is leading the charge.

MINNEAPOLIS - Eyes roll when Rabbi Hayim Herring tells his fellow clergy that they should spend an hour a day on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.

Google and Facebook have rushed out services in Farsi. Twitter users have changed their home cities to Tehran to provide cover for Internet users there.

Media Literacy: Activities for independent communication via media in an information society, and the technologies and knowledge that support these activities (Source: digitalstorytelling)

Photo credit: Stephan Ridgway edited by Daniele Bazzano

Inside this Media Literacy digest:

• Foreverism - Foreverism encompasses the many ways that consumers and businesses are embracing conversations, relationships, and products that are never done.
• Disaggregation of Higher Education - David Wiley draws a parallel between the disruption of the printing press on power structures of western society.
• Data Center Overload - As individuals become more distributed (think “clouds”) in data storage and social interactions, data centres become more important.
• Why Group Norms Kill Creativity - A homogeneous group is often not very effective at creativity. Individual diversity, connected, produces substantial advances.
• ED-MEDIA 2009 - It will be interesting to see how the increased use of social media will contribute to conference interactions, connections, and quality of participant experience
• Social Network Analysis: an Introduction - …a great introduction to many network concepts from Barry Wellman and Alexandra Marin.

Inside the Media Literacy digest, George Siemens ushers you into a fascinating journey to make sense of how new media technologies are changing how you work, learn and communicate..

Here all the details:

Internet giant Google on Friday started translating Persian, also known as Farsi, in a move that could dramatically help spread information on the Iranian election crisis.

Maybe Rick Perry’s famously kept hair has the same independent streak as the Texas governor.

Jun 17 - With a media ban stifling coverage from within Iran, protesters are turning to Twitter to get their message out.

Facebook rolled out a limited test tonight of a new search interface which for the first time lets people search their News Feeds and brings up results chronologically from their streams.

SIGN UP, HOOK UP, JOIN UP: Every time you hand out a business card, that contact should also be added to your online social network, experts say.