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• Facebook worm spreads with a lurid lure

  Some Facebook users have been infected with a worm after clicking on an image of a scantily clad woman, which then redirects the victims to a pornography site, according to security researchers.

• Open-Xchange integrates Facebook, Twitter with e-mail inbox

  Open-source collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange plans to open its e-mail inbox to messages from social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

• Techies gather for a lunch to save the world

  The 43rd floor of the Spear Tower in downtown San Francisco is empty. Possibly because of the slumping economy, there's just a big, open office space with unfinished white walls overlooking a million-dollar view. It was an appropriate setting for Lunch for Good, an event on Wednesday that brought together nearly 100 people deep in the Bay Area's social-networking industry to talk about a futuristic question: how online social networks can help humans find common ground.

• Salesforce.com announces 'Chatter' social-networking app

  Salesforce.com opened up its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on Wednesday by previewing Salesforce Chatter, a social-networking application the vendor dubbed a "Facebook for the Enterprise."

• LinkedIn for BlackBerry smartphones: Details

  It's about time.

• Business use of Twitter, Facebook exploding

  The use of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to promote businesses has exploded over the past six months, according to the results of a study that were released today.

• IBM's 'enterprise Facebook' is a hit

  Lotus Connections is "the fastest-growing software in IBM history when it comes to market adoption," said an IBM social software strategist on board the Lotus Bus. IBM discussed iNotes, Symphony, security and boundary workers during its stop in Toronto.

• Cisco doubles down on collaboration with 61 new products

  Cisco Systems has massively expanded its portfolio of collaboration technologies, announcing 61 products, including a corporate-grade hosted e-mail system called Cisco WebEx Mail as well as a social networking application and a video system to help groups securely share video content and search capabilities.

• Google adds new social media features to Friend Connect

  Google's Friend Connect has expanded its roster of social networking and social media services that participating Web publishers can add to their sites.

• Novell prepares enterprise social networking suite

  Novell has unveiled an enterprise social networking suite that is integrated with Google's new Wave application and lets co-workers collaborate on documents.

• Novell prepares enterprise social networking suite

  Novell has unveiled an enterprise social networking suite that is integrated with Google's new Wave application and lets co-workers collaborate on documents.

• Scams & shams: The trouble with social networks

  It's hard to understand who in their right mind would want to incur the wrath of "Triple H," the intimidating superstar of professional wrestling. But when a poser created a fraudulent MySpace account in Triple H's name, it wasn't the wrestler that the perpetrator had to contend with.

• Twitter: Don't change your log-in data until further notice

  Twitter users should refrain from changing their log-in data until further notice or else risk getting locked out of their accounts.

• Virginia man gets prison time for online threats

  An Oakwood, Virginia, man who used a social-networking Web site to make threats of school shootings throughout the country has been sentenced to four years in a federal prison.

• New app deepens SAP ties to LinkedIn

  SAP and the business social-networking site LinkedIn have partnered on an application that will let users integrate their LinkedIn and SAP Community profiles.