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At the “Bigg Digg Shindigg” event at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference (SXSWi), Digg CEO Jay Adelson revealed that the popular social bookmarking site is getting a major overhaul, teasing the audience about new features such as personalized feeds and the return of the Digg leaderboard. The new version of the website is not yet available.

Facebook has added new privacy options to give users more control over their Facebook applications and websites using Facebook Connect.

Retweet.com , a competitor to the much more popular Tweetmeme service, has put itself on the auction block. Retweet.com launched six months ago , declaring war on its Twitter story aggregating competitor.

Mobile Internet usage is on the rise. Apple’s share of the mobile smartphone market is only going to increase. AT&T’s mobile data traffic has increased by 4,932% over the last three years

Poor Ben Kaplan. The Sports Illustrated Social Communications staffer has just been caught red-handed trying to place his hands in Digg’s big cookie jar. An incrimating email, supposedly from Kaplan to an undisclosed party, has surfaced on Digg and, though unconfirmed, appears to be an attempt by Kaplan to game the Digg system with third-party assistance

Citizen journalism has become tightly integrated with many cable news programs, whether it’s simply soliciting the audience for tweets or more robust projects like CNN’s iReport or Fox News’ uReport. The latter is now getting on MySpace (also owned by Fox News parent company News Corp), giving the cable channel another big medium to get submissions from potential uReporters

Social media can do some extraordinary things , from distributing messages from Mars to raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity. But could social media campaigns also encourage us to buy more cars?

Social media is a relatively new phenomenon, but Delicious , Digg , StumbleUpon and other social media websites have become an increasingly important source of website traffic. This also creates a massive demand for data related to social media. Where are users coming from