Former Apple engineer Peter Warden has created a data visualization depicting local patterns in the 210 million profiles that populate Facebook.

Seattle-based illustrator Matthew Inman, aka The Oatmeal – has come up with a humorous illustrated guide on ‘How To Suck at Facebook’.

Prompted by the increasing number of status updates on Twitter and Facebook, Millward Brown is developing digital word-of-mouth measurement tools for online campaigns.

The continuing conversation about what privacy will look like in the digital age has found Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg justifying the network’s recent shift in privacy policies.

VitaminWater will be releasing a new flavor this March that was developed by fans at their Facebook Community.

At the end of January London will be launching an Online Datastore in an effort to make London’s data free to everyone that wants it.

Fashion bloggers have begun to take the reigns from traditional media in the fashion industry.

Suicide Machine is a website that allows users to delete their social media accounts in a sensational way.

Facebook has released a list of the top status update terms from 2009.

As part of their upcoming project called Keds Collective, the shoe giant is letting would-be designers create their own kicks (using the standard Keds models) and sell them at select stores at both retail and wholesale rates.

This Flickr photostream created by Stéphane Massa-Bidal is of series of ten images that reimagine social networks and web tools as vintage paperback covers.

Seppukoo.com is a social website which “liberates the digital body” by deactivating one’s Facebook profile and shaping a social experience out of it.

The New Oxford American Dictionary recently announced their word of the year for 2009.

The Pew Internet and American Life Project have released a study indicating that people who use social networks, cellphones, and IM tend to have a larger social circle than non-users.

The Pew Internet and American Life Project have released a study indicating that people who use social networks, cellphones, and IM tend to have a larger social circle than non-users.