The Mountain View Chocolate Factory called Google has added to Labs “Social Search”.

Effectively, the search giant has made a way to allow my friends to influence my search results. Blog posts and other related content by my social circle get put into the results, which as an idea isn’t too shabby. Just in case I don’t read my friend’s blogs at all. Last time I checked, I wasn’t that unsociable…

Feel free to add it through the Google Labs.

[via the Official Google Blog]

Stupidly huge social networking destination Facebook has now reached the 300 million user mark, so says Mark Zuckerberg.

In his blog post, he also mentions about how the site has now managed to reach a positive cash flow in the last quarter, earlier than their prediction of sometime in 2010. Good news for the backers, great news for employees of the company, bad news to those that want Facebook to fail.

I’d better check how my Mafia Wars is going…

[Via The Telegraph]

As someone that really should be on the cutting edge of technology, it seems strange, but after a long and painful battle with my conscience, I have something to admit.

It’s taken me a while, but I am now a user of Twitter.

I know, I’m late to the party again, but hear me out.
When this microblogging thing came out, I just couldn’t understand the appeal of it at all. Why go from long and mostly informative communications, to short and extremely to the point posts with little or no detail added to make it interesting?
Cue attempting to use Pownce (I’m a closet Kevin Rose fan, sorrry). Unforunately the fairly limiting client given for usage didn’t help things along. There was little in alternative client development, so an Adobe Air client was what I had to put up with. And I just didn’t post much in that time.
Now, Pownce is in the coffin and lies in the cemetry after the project got wound up, and Twitter is the all-singing, all-dancing media darling being used by everyone, their zombie pets and Oprah.

I have already opened an account, and in the process have started to slowly “follow” people. Such as Stephen Fry, Kevin Rose, Brian Brushwood and, amazingly, Paul Daniels.

Over time I hope to be able to learn how to effectively use Twitter in a more full capacity than I am right now, maybe even by using my phone instead of waiting until I get to a PC, but for the moment would you mind Following Me?