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We reported yesterday on the new vanity URLs on Facebook, which individuals and brands have been able to register since the weekend.

In the early hours of Saturday morning, Facebook opened up its registrations for Facebook usernames - letting people register memorable URLs for their Facebook page based on their name, rather than the existing string of...

Here's something interesting from another industry: broadcasting. Turner Networks recently integrated Facebook, MySpace and Twitter into its websites for the NBA Eastern Conference Finals and the Pocono 500 NASCAR race.

We talk a lot about the battle between Facebook and MySpace to be top dog in the social networking world - but really that world is the developed Western world.

Facebook is launching a new payments platform, which will let users buy Facebook Credits from the social network, and then use them to pay for stuff within Facebook applications.

Hats off to singer-songwriter Annabel Linquist, who's found a new way to make money from music - writing personalised love songs at $130 a pop for people to share on Facebook with their significant others.

TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook has turned down a potential $200 million VC funding round which would have valued the company at $8 billion.

Shiny US guitar pop boyband The Jonjonas-brothers-facebookas Brothers are debuting their new single on Facebook tomorrow.

Live friend-streams are all the rage in the Web 2.0 world at the moment, from Twitter to Facebook to FriendFeed.

Big Champagne has compiled a list of the most popular music artists on Twitter, headed by Britney Spears with 995,807 followers at the point the chart was compiled. Which should be some consolation to Britney for losing out...

US firm Zooz Mobile has announced that its iPhone music apps have been downloaded more than a million times since being made available on the App Store last November.

Ning will launch the one millionth social network created using its technology.