Microsoft has completed the $8.5 billion acquisition of consumer VoIP and instant messaging service provider Skype from investment firm Silver Lake that was first announced
six months ago.

Now, Skype is officially a new business division inside of Microsoft, and the company’s CEO Tony Bates will become president of that division, reporting directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. For now, it appears Skype’s products won’t change.

Skype now officially property of Microsoft

Seeing as Wal-Mart has colonized every corner of the United States and then some, rural and urban, the retail empire will expand beyond the American Landscape into the infinite depths of the world wide web.

Your Local Wal-Mart Is Coming To Facebook | Hubze Blog

As a psychotherapist in private practice, I can’t help but notice that Facebook is wreaking mischief in some of my clients’ personal lives.

One client caused a family scandal when he established privacy settings that prevented some, but not all, of his relatives from seeing his status updates. A 14-year-old client gave up Facebook for Lent, yet still managed to become entangled in a high school “de-friending” drama. A third client “disallowed” her arch Conservative brother from commenting on her statuses after he started arguing with her politically liberal friends. And finally, a 20-something client tried to gauge the temperature of his on-again-off-again girlfriend based on how often she “friends” or “de-friends” him

Cyberspying and Defriending: How Facebook is Finding its Way to the Therapy Couch | Psychology Today

I’ve noticed a trend for quite some time on the different blogs I run, Facebook pages and Google+ account.

It seems that since the introduction of the “Like” button and concept no one adds a comment to anything anymore.

The Death of Comments: How the Like & +1 button killed comments | Hubze Blog

Facebook is the first company to use a tool from Microsoft that identifies known images of child pornography and remove them from the social network.

The tool, called PhotoDNA, is software that analyzes images for certain characteristics and compares them to images in a reference database. Microsoft calls this process “robust hashing,” and an illicit image’s “hash value” can help authorities track and identify copies – altered or not – of child porn photos. (See video below.)

Facebook deploys Microsoft tool to fight child pornography | The Microsoft Blog – seattlepi.com

By Phil Villarreal

Parenting and computer game obsessions don’t mix. News of unspeakably sad proof of this came from Jacksonville, where a mother has pleaded guilty to murdering her baby, who wouldn’t stop crying as she played Farmville.

Mom Kills Baby For Interrupting Farmville Session – The Consumerist

By Ben Popken

The guy sitting next to you in the coffee shop might actually be logging into your Facebook account, using the info beaming out your computer. It’s called “session hijacking” or “sidejacking” and despite it being a well-known vulnerability, most websites aren’t protecting their users from it. After a developer recently unveiled a user-friendly bit of code that makes “sidejacking” as easy a few mouse clicks, the problem is getting fresh attention.

Your Facebook Login Can Get Jacked By A Monkey With A Mouse – The Consumerist

Google: Oops…our Street View cars also saw websites you were visiting

By Tim Conneally | Published May 14, 2010, 5:26 PM

Google today said it will stop collecting Wi-Fi network data from its Street View cars, after an investigation from the German Data Protection Authority (DPA) found the search company was also collecting data about websites people were visiting on public hotspots.

Google: Oops…our Street View cars also saw websites you were visiting | Tech Policy & Law News – Betanews

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