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Facebook and Zynga are facing a class-action lawsuit over their 'scam' advertising strategy. It's alleged that they 'cheat' users of games like Farmville and Mafia Wars. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers re-arrange the furniture to watch the show.

I've just put the beta of Microsoft Office 2010 through its paces for a Computerworld review, and while there's plenty to like, there's plenty that should be made better as well. Here are five ways it can be improved.

The New Oxford American Dictionary has announced its Word Of The Year for 2009: unfriend. (Well, at least they didn't choose teabagger.) But in IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if that's the best the wordmeisters could do.

In today's podcast: Microsoft's EC antitrust settlement needs minor changes; Android faces possible fragmentation; and Facebook, MySpace fix serious coding errors.

Facebook and MySpace are accused of encouraging game developers to cheat users out of money. Games like Farmville stand accused of employing "unethical" monetization strategies. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers reveal the scams. Not to mention Clean Me...

In today's podcast: IDN ccTLDs; Facebook sues spammer for $700M; and Oracle reassures on Sun software future.

In today's podcast: Microsoft, EU reach antitrust agreement; Bing slips; and Facebook down for some.

The Federal Trade Commission has finally ruled on endorsements in blogs, podcasts, Facebook, and other social media. There's threats of big fines for hidden advertisements and opaque endorsements. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers get all a-twitter. Not to mention dating before the Internet...

I stumbled upon an interesting piece at the Wake Forest University site.  In Eric Frazier’s piece, Ants vs. worms (you can read it here) he describes how new security programs are being designed to thwart computer security threats by taking a page out of mother nature’s book. These “digital ants” are made to seek out threats in computer networks and pretty soon after a threat is detected, the “ants” gather conspicuously enough to get the attention of their human supervisors.

Welcome to today's IT Blogwatch Quicklinks: a few quickies that didn't quite make the cut this morning.

By Richi Jennings. Your humble blogwatcher offers in this post:

• iPhone OS 3.1 unlocked and jailbroken
• Facebook claims 300 million users; making money already
• CrowdFusion unifies blogs, wikis, and more

In today's podcast: Jobs headlines iPod event; Google to offer payment system for publishers; and Obama gives Facebook tips.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, you’ve heard that Twitter was the victim of a cyberattack causing the popular social media to shut down for two hours last week. Well, if you live in the Land of Twitter you would have thought that it was 9/11 all over again. CNN.com quoted one Twitter user as saying, “I was pretty upset, actually. It feels like a lifeline for me." " It's like my heart was gone" and "I felt so empty inside," came from several other Tweeters. “Naked” and “jittery” were also used to describe how Tweeters felt during the blackout.

Are all of us who use some form of social networking websites doomed to living through DoS after DoS because of political battles across the world? I really hope not, but I fear the reality.

Twitter was knocked out, Facebook crippled, other social networks staggered, and all because of Window botnet-based DDoS attacks aimed at one person. Maybe it's time to start blocking Windows PCs from the Internet.

In today's podcast: DDoS attacks hit Twitter, Facebook; chip flaws hit Nvidia profits; Alibaba looks to U.S.