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Facebook, the company devoted to making the world "more open and connected," finally opened its financials to the world today when it filed for an initial public stock offering.

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Uncle Sam's top cops want a new app for peering into social media to see what people are saying that might involve illegal activity or pose threats to national security.

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©Tumblr's menu makes it easy to do quick multimedia posts across multiple platforms and networks.

The social blogging movement continues to gain momentum as a newer generation of blogging tools add more social networking features. In case you're wondering, social blogs are a cross between a blog and a social network. The software programs creating them are often called microblogging tools because they encourage short or "micro" posts analagous to status updates on Facebook.

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The annual Consumer Electronics Show typically showcases prototypes and technology that are months, if not years, from hitting the market. So it's an early barometer for winds of technological change.

And when it comes to social media, one big wind at the 2012 CES last week was integration with technology of all kinds, suggesting it will be another newsy year for social networking and related services. In particular, social TV and connected cars were two areas where social media made plenty of news in Las Vegas.

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The new search system Google rolled out this week incorporating more social networking content and contacts into search results has stirred quite a backlash from privacy advocates and competitors.  It represents perhaps the most advanced type of social search the Web has seen so far.

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It's a ritual to look back at each year when it ends, and there was plenty to look back on in social media during 2011.

So for all you social media news hounds, here are two lists of noteworthy trends and news in the 2011 social mediasphere.

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An obscure blog called PhoneDog burst into the media limelight after the New York Times ran an article last weekend about its legal spat with a former employer over a Twitter account and its followers.

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Pinterest has sky-rocketed into the ranks of the top 10 social networking sites, illustrating the growing popularity of visual bookmarks.

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This guide to visual bookmarks on the Web lists 10 of the most popular tools for organizing and sharing images on the Internet.

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Shares of Zynga Inc., the leading maker of social games on Facebook, tumbled 4 percent on Wall Street in the first hour of trading today, signaling what appears to be fading interest in the once-hot social media sector among investors.

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Some Twitterholics are going through withdrawal as the social messaging service rolls out a major redesign, as explained in this comprehensive guide to changes ushered in by the new Twitter.

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