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• Google+ causes stir with Suggested User list

  Google+ is trying to help users expand their Circles by offering them a new Suggested User list. The only problem is that some users are taking exception to what they're calling an elitist system.

• Google+ lets users 'ignore' those annoying people

  Want to ignore that one cousin or co-worker who's bugging you on Google+? Now the new social networking site is giving you an option to do just that.

• Steve Jobs' resignation heats up social nets

  As soon as the news hit late Wednesday that Steve Jobs was resigning as Apple's CEO, social networks heated up with traffic.

• Google+, Facebook duel is big boon for users

  Industry analysts have suspected that adding Google+ to the social networking mix would force Facebook to up its game. And it looks like that prediction is coming true.

• Facebook, Twitter boom despite Google+ challenge

  Despite Google+'s making a huge splash in the social networking world, rivals Facebook and Twitter continue to grow at dramatic rates.

• Twitter, Facebook light up after East Coast quake

  Just moments after a 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit the East Coast on Tuesday afternoon, Twitter and Facebook lit up with the news.

• Hacker collective Anonymous to launch social networking site

  Anonymous, which has claimed credit for several high-profile cyber attacks in recent months, plans to launch what it says will be a new social networking site called AnonPlus.

• San Francisco grabs onto the cloud with Microsoft

  In a big cloud computing win for Microsoft, the city and county of San Francisco announced Wednesday that it is moving workers from multiple email systems to Microsoft's cloud-based email.

• Google CEO Page hones in on social networking

  Google's new CEO is making one thing clear - he'll be honing the company's focus in on social networking.

• FAQ: Epsilon email breach

  An email server breach at Epsilon Interactive exposed the names and email addresses of millions of people. The breach is being described as the worst of its kind.

• Google Gmail outage leaves 150,000 users without e-mail

  About 150,000 of Google's Gmail users woke up Sunday morning to missing e-mails, contacts and chat histories.

• What would China deal mean to Facebook?

  When a photo of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg meeting with the head of China's largest search engine hit the Internet, speculation began to run wild.

• IT confronts the Splinternet

  Something happened while we were sleeping: The Internet became the Splinternet. Here's how my colleagues Josh Bernoff and Shar VanBoskirk describe it in a recent report: "The golden age of Internet standards is ending. The Web is splintering, and interactive marketing is fragmenting along with it. Welcome to the age of the Splinternet." You can see exactly what they mean in the figure below.

• Facebook rakes in $2B in 2010

  Not long after being criticized for not knowing how to make money, Facebook is looking to reel in more than $2 billion in sales in 2010.

• Facebook's Zuckerberg is Time's Person of the Year

  The man behind the world's largest social network has been named Time's Person of the Year.