Few days back I wrote an article about FaceNiff, an Android app that lets users access web sessions profiles over Wi-Fi networks and hijack your connected Facebook or Twitter account. If your connection is unsecured, then anyone using FacNiff can easily deflect your data or steal your information.

France has banned the names of social networking giants, Facebook and Twitter from being spoken on TV or radio, unless the terms are part of a news story. This stops the anchors from asking their audience to “follow us on Twitter” or “check out our Facebook page”

A few days ago, I was hit with a flood with emails in my inbox from Twitter saying that someone had mentioned me in a tweet and some which said that my tweet had been marked as a favorite by someone.

It was expected that Twitter would launch its own photo sharing service, but surprisingly, Twitter has teamed up with Photobucket and have launched the new service. The service will allow users to upload and attach photos to Tweets directly from Twitter.com and its mobile apps.

Soon Twitter just might launch their own photo sharing service. The earlier week, Twitter acquired TweetDeck and now comes a direct assault on the second flank of Twitpic’s and Yfrog’s.

Twitter has launched the Follow button for blogs and websites using which you can add a Follow button for your account to your blog.

Google has announced a new feature in Gmail called People Widget and will begin to roll out sometime next week. People Widget is a sidebar widget placed at the right of email messages that provides information about the people you’re interacting with in Gmail.

The most popular and widely growing micro-blogging site acquiring the most popular desktop client for Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, LinkedIn and MySpace

A new hedge fund, which will trade stocks based on sentiment analysis derived from tweets on Twitter, has just raised 25 million pounds. It will commence trading soon.

Google’s blogging service Blogger is down since yesterday. Blogger announced on its Twitter account that it is going under “scheduled maintenance” but later said that it was “sorting out a few issues”. Google had planned to roll-out a redesign for Blogger but looks like things have gone awry.

4th & Mayor (foursquare client) and Rowi (twitter client) both developed by Microsoft engineers showcase the power of tools, design and features of Windows Phone.

Facebook now allows you to tag friends in updates and comments without using @. New Facebook friend tagging for comments and updates.

You can add Twitter streams, RSS Feeds, Youtube Channels, Scribd documents and much more to a Facebook Page with no coding.

Zynga bought the Flock web browser in January. Their recent decision to kill the Flock browser has not made them any friends in that social browser community.

Twitter might acquire TweetDeck for $50 million. Twitter is in advanced talks to acquire TweetDeck the popular desktop and mobile twitter client.