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• Gartner: Web content management a billion-dollar business

  In its August issue, Wired magazine proclaimed that the Web is on the wane, but for the business world, the Web seems to be only growing more important.

• Google continues social-networking push with Angstro buy

  Google continues to aggressively pursue social-networking capabilities, this time with the acquisition of Angstro.

• Scammers hit Twitter, Facebook, send free iPad spam

  Facebook and Twitter users are complaining about their accounts being compromised and then being used to spam friends with suspicious "free iPad offers."

• Germany considers ban on using Facebook for hiring

  Germany is considering a law that would ban employers from mining information on prospective job candidates from social networking sites such as Facebook to protect people's privacy.

• Google fixes Gmail bug that re-sent e-mail messages

  A Gmail bug that caused messages to be re-sent multiple times, mortifying senders and annoying recipients, has been fixed, Google said Thursday.

• Gmail glitch resends messages multiple times

  Gmail users have been reporting in droves that the Google webmail service is resending messages to their recipients, turning these users into accidental spammers who are unintentionally annoying friends, acquaintances and business contacts.

• North Korea-linked Facebook page deleted again

  For the second time in less than a week a Facebook account created by a North Korea-linked Web site has been deleted by the social networking site.

• The next Facebook: Scoop?

  Imagine a social networking site geared specifically toward connecting college students with their on-campus academic and social communities. Sound familiar? Those are Facebook's roots -- before the site ballooned into a worldwide phenomenon with half a billion registered users. They're also the roots of Scoop<, a forthcoming mobile social app.

• Group complains when Facebook blocks image of pot leaf

  Facebook has blocked a marijuana legalization campaign from displaying the image of a pot leaf in ads on the social-networking giant's site, and that's making the normally mellow group upset.

• Facebook deletes North Korean account, but it resurfaces

  A Facebook account established by a North Korea-linked Web site was deleted by the social networking service on Friday, but a new group sprang up over the weekend to take its place.

• Facebook buys social site Hot Potato

  Facebook has acquired Hot Potato in a move that could help further its move into location-based services.

• Experts give preliminary OK to Facebook Places

  Pressed to respond to the rising popularity of online services that let people broadcast their location, Facebook mostly hit the right notes with the initial design of Places, although it's too early to declare the service will be a sure success, according to several experts.

• iPhone gets a social news app

  Flipboard broke new ground when it launched its flashy iPad app last month that "socialized" the news by turning feeds from Facebook, Twitter, and such into a slick electronic magazine. Now Blancspot Media is promising to bring the pizzazz of social news to the iPhone with its new Blancspot software.

• Facebook Places service adds location-based services

  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced the company's latest creation, a foray into the world of location-based services called Facebook Places.

• Facebook dislike button is real -- and I like It!

  Perhaps you heard the news yesterday about a fake Facebook "dislike" button that quickly spread virally across the service.