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A few days ago it was announced that Iran had blocked access to Facebook from all dial-up and broadband Internet users throughout the country; today we announce

Some promising news from the MySpace camp comes with the pending acquisition of the number one music application on Facebook, iLike. The deal is set to close around $20 million and puts Facebook in an uncomfortable position, with it's number one social media competitor owning one of the top applications on the Facebook platform.

The top story on the social Web this week is Facebook's acquisition of social media aggregator FriendFeed. The transaction is reported around $50 million. FriendFeed's traffic is an estimated 1 million visitors per month which is minute compared to Facebook's 250 million. With a recent Facebook valuation of $10 billion though, the numbers...

If you are having trouble accessing Twitter today the service is apparently under heavy denial-of-service (DoS) attacks since around 9am EST. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone states, "We are defending against this attack now and will continue to update our status blog as we continue to ... investigate."

By the powers vested in me by the blogosphere I hereby declare this MySpace Charity Week! I urge everyone (who still has an active MySpace account) to login for a few minutes and post a bulletin, a few recent pictures or say hello to a friend you haven't spoken to in a while. The "Forgot your password?" link may come in handy.

Twitter rolls out a stylish new homepage this week and is finally promoting real-time search front and center. Up until now, when talking with friends about the true power of Twitter lying in it's real-time search capabilities, some seemed to not fully grasp the concept. Hopefully the new design will help more users understand how it works.

A little buzz has been stirring this past week originating from a post on consultant Cheryl Smith's blog describing how her husband [Peter Smith] received a dating advertisement through Facebook displaying her photo along with the text, "Hey Peter, Hot singles are waiting for you!"