Itamar Kestenbaum

Last week, I released a full list of Foursquare badges – something that was difficult to find before. But now, it seems, that list isn’t complete enough!

Twitter has been making changes to keep up with the very lingo that has been created around the microblogging service. The word “tweet” was already introduced into the user interface by the tweet-count changing from Updates to Tweets.

In their announcement of their SXSW plans, Hootsuite announced their integration of location-based juggernaut Foursquare, as well as faux-social-network-turned-music-self-promotion-clusterf*** Myspace!

This, no doubt, is not a coincidental timing considering the huge amount of checkins expected at SXSW this year. The location-based service also gives special badges for specific events.

JERUSALEM, March 3 (Reuters) – The Israeli militarycalled off a raid in Palestinian territory after a soldier posted details, including the time and place, on social networking website Facebook, Israel’s Army Radio reported on Wednesday.

Lately, I’ve had a few people ask me about how to show more of their friend’s status updates. Here’s a screencast I did explaining exactly how to never miss what your friends are up to! This is my first experiment with screencasting. If you give me feedback, I can improve on it! Enjoy!

Mashable have had an iPhone app for a while now, but today, they’ve announced a completely new app!

The old app, which was pretty clunky and showed some non-mobile web pages. So it’s no surprise that Pete Cashmore and the Mashable team were keen on introducing a newer app.

According to YouTube, Tiger Woods will be breaking his self-imposed silence today to address the months-long unraveling of his career, and his good name.

Microsoft have just announced a new addition to Microsoft Office 2010 – and it’s social! The tool is called Outlook Social Connector, and it’s designed to bring communications history, contact information, and professional and social networking information into the outlook calendar. The Social Connector is designed to help you stay in touch with the people you care about.

According to TechCrunch, Facebook’s Chamath Palihapitiya of Facebook just finished a short speech about Facebook’s mobile strategy. Nothing mindblowing – but he did leave us with Facebook Zero – a text-only site for mobile carriers.

According to Network Solutions and the University of Maryland Smith School of Business, social media adoption by small businesses has doubled from 12 percent to 24 percent in the last year. The results were shown in the Small Business Success Index™ (SBSI) third wave of results.