Status updates on Facebook help people understand their friends and the people around them–how they’re feeling, what they’re doing and what they’re thinking. In the United States alone, people on Facebook are sharing hundreds of millions of words every day, thousands per second, in status updates. When taken as a whole, these words offer a unique barometer into the issues, world events and thoughts that are connecting people.

Source via [http://www.briansolis.com/2009/12/facebook-top-trends-of-2009/]

As 2009 winds down and we try to come up with new and clever ways of referring to the early years of this century, there's really only one thing left to do: declare our ten favorite gadgets of the aughts and show them off in chronological order.

via [http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/ten-gadgets-that-defined-the-decade/]

As shared in Twitter’s post announcing this year’s top trends:

Twitter’s Trending Topics helped us understand what was happening around the world showing us that people everywhere can be united in concern around important events; excited about a new movie; or geek-out about a major new technology.

Source via [http://www.briansolis.com/2009/12/top-twitter-trends-of-2009/]

To use youtu.be manually, simply take a URL like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdeioVndUhs and replace the “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=” with “http://youtu.be/” to get: http://youtu.be/FdeioVndUhs Plug that shorter URL into a browser, and you’ll see it redirects to that video

The Next Web explains more via [http://thenextweb.com/appetite/2009/12/22/youtube-launches-killer-url-shorten...]

If you are running any of the Windows OS, including the latest Windows 7, you should run Microsoft Security Essential as your antivirus solution. This is because it is now tested as the Best-Performing antivirus which you can get if for free. Just having a legit and validated (activated) version of Windows and you can use this low-resource usage antivirus for free.

I personally use this antivirus, and I cannot argue more that MSE is fast. Startup of my Windows no longer lags compare to when using other antivirus software. Plus, MSE detects virus easily and clean it properly.

If you have doubt, check the latest antivirus comparison by AV-Comparative [http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/performance-tests] and PC Mag [http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2009/12/av-comparatives_rates_anti-mal.php]

Mozilla designer Stephen Horlander shared with us the latest changes of Firefox 4.0 interface design. These design seems a great improvement over current version, plus the seamless integration with Windows Aero Glass effect. The new menu bar has been change to more alike to Microsoft Office design, but personally I think it is nice.

Currently, there a few of proposed interface design, which is not yet finalize. I seems to like the "bookmark bar between tabs and navigation bar" design. What do you think?

Look for more images on Chromatic Pixel [http://blog.stephenhorlander.com/2009/12/21/windows-themeui-update/]

According to global analytics web site StatCounter, Firefox 3.5 has edged past Internet Explorer 7 as the most popular browser on the market today.

Source via [http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-weekly-200827-200951]

It seems that Facebook are planning to release another redesign for it's entire site. From the screenshots, this not a major changes but there are some improvements in the way Facebook handles notifications and the "feeds".

See more pictures via [http://mashable.com/2009/12/19/facebook-redesign-screenshots/]

You may want to know why most developers are saying the current version of Wordpress are so great! This update are one of the major changes for Wordpress, with lots of new features embedded inside the Core itself. Feature such as delete to "trash", image editor and also video embeds.

If you want to full details, read more on Wordpress Blog via [http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9/]

It's Official, there are now more Tweets than the number of people worldwide.

via [http://mashable.com/2009/12/19/tweets-world-population/]