The search engine war is on! Earlier today we revealed that Google may be planning on launching its own music service. Now according to latest reports, Microsoft is expected to announce nonexclusive deals with both Facebook and Twitter later today.

Facebook has been working on a redesign of its home page over the past few months. The planned redesign will take a leaf or two out of Facebook Lite’s book and will beef up the activity stream.

The Facebook Notifications application, will notify you whenever there is a new notification for your profile. This includes, new friend requests, pokes, event invites, group invites and unread messages.

Facebook now has 30000 servers, which are supporting their day to day operations. In addition to that Facebook logs over 25 Terabytes of data, every day.

Adobe Photo Uploader for Facebook, allows you to upload photos from your desktop to Facebook. Using this tool you can create Facebook albums and upload photos to it, quickly and easily.

Facebook now allows users to login to the site using their vanity usernames along with their email address.

Facebook has just crossed another milestone by breaking a record of having 300 million active users visit their site, 50 million of which were added in the last 75 days at a rate of 67K users per day

Shivering Kittens is a puzzle game for Facebook based on a very popular game called Tetris, however in this game you have to save freezing kittens by arranging falling blocks to free the adorable kittens from the ice.

In this roundup we look at different uses of Dropbox, how to end phone calls without being rude. The new Bing Visual search, Google’s new Magazine style fast flip, Flickr Galleries and Facebook’s new twitter copied @ tagging.

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Facebook Lite, a lighter version Facebook is designed specially for users with slow Internet connections and to access most relevant sections in Facebook. No doubt the lighter version loads pretty faster than the original version as there are few elements disabled in the lite version. Elements like, Highlights, the left sidebar navigation to access modules in Facebook, the “What’s on your mind” text box, links to quickly connect with friends and the requests section.

KeepMeOut helps you get over your internet addiction by making it inconvenient for you to go to the same website again and again.

PrettySlide is a new web application that allows you to create slideshows from your Facebook photos. You can choose from 5 different slideshow themes.

Apple App store is crowded with 65k+ apps. It gets quite hectic to search applications for your social networking needs. Here’s compact a list 5 best social networking apps that you will ever need to stay in touch with your contacts.

We decided to check for other interesting terms that Google comes up with through Google Suggest for the other social networking sites, and before we go ahead let us tell you that this is funny :)

The biggest news of the day today has been the acquisition of FriendFeed a social aggregation service by social networking giants Facebook, so how is the web reacting to this big news?