Link Post for December 18th

This is the A2SM Link Post for December 18th:

• FTC Asked to Investigate Facebook’s New Privacy Changes – We know that Facebook considers Twitter a threat to its web supremacy. We also know that the company’s been taking a lot of action to squash its upstart rival with an array of new features and changes that make it more like Twitter.
• Click a Button, Translate an Entire Google Site – One of our favorite Google tools, Google Translate, not only talks and translates in real-time, but it’s been integrated in a wide variety of Google services, including Google Reader, Gmail, and most recently, Google Toolbar.
• Bit.ly Launches Tool That Tells You Which Videos Are Going Viral – bit.ly, as the world’s largest URL shortener and default for Twitter messages, has thousands of links passing through its doors every day. Because of that, it has a great deal of data on what’s hot and what’s popular on the web.
• MySpace and WSJ Send a Citizen Journalist to Davos – MySpace, Wall Street Journal and the World Economic Forum have announced their second annual contest to send a citizen journalist to Davos, Switzerland.
• Twitter Hacked By ‘Iranian Cyber Army’? –

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