Strategies:

• The future of geo-targeting is here.

Stats:

• Study: connecting with friends via Facebook more popular than texting, email.

• Retailer emails hit holiday peak.

Measurement:

• videoEgg, comScore partner on CPG initiative.

• Rentrak buying Nielsen's box office measurement service, for $15 million.

Search:

• Google to power search and ads on Mail.ru.

• Social Media: Twitter starts testing features for business.

• Microsoft launches and then pulls, Twitter-style microblog from China.

• Bit.ly, Google, Facebook prep new short-URL services.

• How Facebook is making friending obsolete.

Smartphone:

• Google phone: facts, rumors and speculation.

ISPs:

• Australia moves to mandatory ISP filtering.

Privacy:

• 10 settings every Facebook user should know.