Bonus rant: Niki gets freaked out by computers.

1) MySpace being sold for USD35 million to Specific Media

2) Google + and what it means to the Facebook Generation.

3) The social media coverage during the Kuala Lumpur Bersih rally.

1) LulzSec, the hacktivist group that brought down corporations like Sony, aol, and others, announced that they’re taking a break from their hacking activities.

2) The recent attacks on Malaysian government websites by Anonymous, another group of hacktivists, following the country’s decision to block access to certain file-hosting sites.

3) Olympians would be allowed to use social media in 2012

4) Facebook Credits being available to Malaysians via UMobile top ups.

5) Social Media campaigns that use contests to gain more followers — what’s the point?

We discuss:

1) The reason why these 10 sites were blocked, how they’re being blocked, and how to skirt your way around them.

2) The New York Times Paywall is working  — in a bizarre way: by increasing the number of print subscriptions.

3) YouTube adopting and promoting Creative Commons content.

1) How social activist Fahmi Fadzil was forced to Tweet 100 times to apologise for a defamatory statement against Blu Inc Media, a publisher.

2) Should you feel good about Groupon’s IPO?

3) U.N. Report Declares Internet Access a Human Right

4) Forbidden in France news networks: the words ‘Twitter’ and ‘Facebook’

1) The super-injunction filed by Ryan Giggs’s lawyers after a tweet allegeing that the footballer had an affair spread on Twitter. Could Twitter be facing another legal morass?

2) Amazon sells more Kindle books than physical books on its store — No surprise really. We discuss the ways in which those outside the US can obtain Kindle books.

3) Should under-13 year olds be allowed to join Facebook? Our panelists say yes, and so does Mark Zuckerberg.

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1) The Facebook debacle in which they admit hiring PR firm Burson Marstellar to plant stories that paint Google in a poor light when it comes to managing user privacy.

2) Facebook partners with Web of Trust to prevent users clicking on malicious sites and phishing scams.

3) Google I/O announcements, including Chromebooks and Google Music.

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1) Apple’s week-long late response to the Location-Gate debacle: Clever disaster management, or is it just plain disastrous?

2) The fascinating tale of how one teenager, Aaron Lee, became the most followed Malaysian on Twitter. Was his position justified though?

3) The social media disconnect witnessed in the latest Singapore Elections, where the results of the election did not match the pro-opposition enthusiasm shown on social media networks like Twitter and Facebook.

1) Facebook launching its Deals services in five cities in the US.

2) Google incorporating real-time search results from Quora, Buzz and Gowalla. Meh.

3) Friendster tells its users to export all their photos, blogs, and testimonials before May 19.

4) The Royal Wedding: The world’s first global wedding broadcasted and popularised with Social Media.

5) How Twitter broke the news about Osama bin Laden’s death, and why we need to move on from being wowed by events like this.

1) The significance of Twitter trying to buy TweetDeck before Bill Gross’s UberMedia does.

2) The failure of the Cloud: What happened when Amazon’s EC2 service went down for more than 24 hours, affecting services like Reddit, Foursquare and Quora.

3) The 1Malaysia E-mail project, which message has been largely misunderstood, and we suspect will continue to be so.

4) The Asean Bloggers Conference, in which the Malaysian government reinforced its belief in “Digital Democracy”. What exactly is that?

Webtip of the week: FeedGeorge, a Malaysian-made idea that aggregates all geo-location tags into one map.

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1) Annoying Orange scoring a TV gig. What’s so appealing about the damn show?

2) YouTube Live launched — what can we expect from it?

3) The Energizer Night Race debacle — what went wrong and what could’ve gone right?

4) Malaysia scores high on the wrong side of the Internet, with a high incidence of intimidation/harrasment of bloggers and online media channels.

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1) Google launches its +1 service on an experimental basis — why would you want to join in?

2) How Malaysian news portal MalaysiaKini used Facebook as short-term respite to get the news out while being DDoSed

3) Mark Zuckerberg is facing a new claim to his Facebook empire after convicted fraudster Paul Ceglia unearthed some e-mails that Zuckerberg agreed to give him 50% of “the face book” in 2003.

4) Microsoft’s Bing is catching up in the search-engine race, with a 30% market share in the US, while Google slipped down 2%. Are people finding Bing more useful?

5) Cisco closes its Flip camera division, two years after acquiring it for $590 million. Webtip of the week: Get your game on with Steam!

Sponsors: The New Media Asia conference in Kuala Lumpur, and Chalkboard.

1) How Rebecca Black’s fame won her 60 million YouTube hits, and netted more than $60,000. Does the Internet love to hate so much?

2) Color could very well be a game-changer in the way we interact with each other at parties, gather news, and discover new perspectives — if only other people would use it so that the app would work.

3) Maybank dishes out new security features to prevent getting phished, and we discuss our tips to increase security online.

Webtip of the week: Teambox, a cheaper alternative to online management tool Basecamp.

1) Twitter turning five years old: We talk about the biggest milestones in Twitter’s short history.

2) Facebook Places arrives quietly into Malaysia, and doesn’t make a big splash.

3) ICANN finally approves the .xxx top-level domain for adult-themed sites after years of pressure from conservative groups and the porn industry to bar it from happening.

4) Kevin Rose supposedly resigns from Digg, and is now said to be pursuing a new startup. We talk about Digg’s rise and fall.

5) The New York Times is ready to put up its paywall once again, with a clunky price structure that leaves scratching our heads.

Webtip of the week: KnowYourMeme.com, which keeps track of all the Internet memes happening , including one Rebecca Black.

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