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Facebook jumps into and out of the news like a Jack-in-the-box who's had too much caffeine, but this last week has seen an unusual amount of officially announced Facebook tweaks, as well as a bit of saber rattling regarding its future plans.

Collaboration tool Yammer has announced Yammer Connect, a suite of plug-ins that let you integrate Yammer’s capabilities into other business applications.

Pixable already does a nice job of aggregating your friends photos and videos on Facebook (though you may remember it originally offering photo albums-- real printed ones --based on your social feeds). Now, it's stepping into an even more real-time domain by integrating Twitter into its code.

Ben Chestnut is the CEO of MailChimp , a successful company that helps its customers design exceptional email campaigns. MailChimp has found great success by going freemium. Read on to learn how MailChimp funds creativity to help developers create interesting integrations with their product.

Google just bought a high-tech face recognition unit called Pitt Patt.

Tying a traditional loyalty program to social and location-based check-ins can be an easy way for businesses to attract customers and make money. Heres how to determine whether its worth it for your business and then how to pull it off

What made the difference? Inc.com asks savvy entrepreneurs to reveal the one thing their business couldn't have lived without--and how much it cost. She was tired of New York City.

Nearly 100 years after Joyce wrote his polyglot seminal work, are we any closer to a technological solution to breaking down the barriers of language? Not if the recent scuffle over Google Translate is any indication. Joyce and the Limits of the Twentieth Century In celebration of Bloomsday (June 16, the 107th anniversary of the fictional events that occur in his Ulysses), I'll reach beyond time, death, and the limits of my own or anyone else's knowledge to affirm that James Joyce would have adored Google Translate.

For the latest (mic-stand-kicking) edition of our future-gazing series Crystal Ballin' we spoke with Ian Hogarth, CEO of Songkick. "In my vision of the future, hipsters aren’t obsolete," he tells us. "I think that you're always gonna need human curation

The gamification trend--and American laziness--has reached its absolute nadir. Every empire has its moments of decadence before its ultimate collapse. Those denizens of Easter Island cut down every last tree, ruining themselves

INQ just revealed that its so-called Facebookphone is getting a location-based services layer supplied through Foursquare , with the check-in game deeply embedded in the OS. This move adds all sorts of additional powers to the phone without requiring running an app, and it's a real coup for Foursquare.

CTO John Donovan, left, sees digital water balloons as a fun primer on handset-to-handset apps—and a lure for wayward subscribers. | Photographs by Darren Braun As leader of Donovan’s tech council, Sanjay Macwan is helping revamp AT&T from a phone company to a technology company.

Metaio has just released Junaio 2.6, the latest version of its augmented reality "browser" for mobile devices, along with a plug-in for third-party app integration and a newly freshened-up mobile developer's kit called Unifeye.

Hidden among Google 's flood of news today is a gem that may make Android shine that much brighter: The Android Open Accessory development kit.

1. Microsoft is poised to announce , maybe later this morning, that the rumored acquisition of Skype is actually true. New hints suggest the price may have pushed as high as $8.5 billion, and Microsoft is obviously imagining how Skype will plug into its enterprise offerings