Google stops autocompleting searches relating to BitTorrent, Facebook starts using your status updates as advertisements, and 3G Verizon phones may, in fact, be able to use data and voice at the same time.
- Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More
Google finally caves into pressure from the RIAA and MPAA; now they will no longer autocomplete searches having to do with BitTorrent. [TorrentFreak] - Sponsored Facebook Posts Turn Your Updates Into Ads For Which You Get No Money
Facebook is rolling out a new program in which companies can uses your statuses and Places check-ins as "Sponsored Stories", viewable by your friends around the site. There is currently no way to opt-out. [Consumerist] - HTC Simultaneous Voice and Data over 3G Confirmed for HTC Thunderbolt
Internal documents at Verizon show that the upcoming HTC Thunderbolt can, in fact, utilize voice and data over 3G. [Phandroid] - Twitter Launches ‘Connections,' Its Own Version Of Facebook's ‘Mutual Friends'
Twitter has changed the "Followed By" and "You Both Follow" profile columns into one area called "Connections", in which you see what users you have in common with the user who's profile you are viewing. [TechCrunch] - Don't Eat at ____
Don't Eat at ___ is a site that integrates with FourSquare, sending you a text message whenever you check into a restaurant at risk of being closed for health code violations. - Stealing content was never easier than with HTML5
HTML5 has a lot of great qualities, but Flash evangelist Serge Gespers points out that it isn't very friendly to premium content. Unlike Flash, there is currently no way to protect HTML5 content from being downloaded. [Serge Jespers]
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