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A Facebook engineer said that some applications were passing along personal data in a violation of policy.

JustSpotted plans to sift through people’s tweets to identify those that claim celebrity spottings, and then to place those celebrities’ whereabouts on a map in real time. It would be similar to the now-defunct GawkerStalker, but it would be faster. (It’s not a novel idea. Last year, start-up OMGICU proposed to do the same thing, supported by text messaging and tweets, except its service requires active user participation rather than data-mining the whole Twitter community like JustSpotted will do.)

Web entrepreneur Andrew Fashion made $2.5 million by the age of 21 helping people bling out their MySpace pages. He blew it all before he turned 22. Meet Andrew and learn where his money went.

Facebook has done a remarkable job of getting developers to adopt its Credits virtual currency before the program was fully fledged. Today that company announced a partnership with PlaySpan to add 20 additional ways for users to pay for credits and plans to accelerate rollout.

As companies actively court customers through Facebook and Twitter, and as more travelers spend time glued to their smart phones, it's time to ponder if travelers are overloaded by social media.

It's smart, it's helpful and users will be grateful.

Facebook users can determine what groups of friends see what information.

If a recent poll from Digg founder Kevin Rose is any indication, Digg is considering bringing back the Bury button.

No need to cry when foursquare is down...you've got options.

Mobile check-in app Foursquare's Monday outage happened after staff tried to fix one problem and somehow triggered another.